A Family at War

Children at War Awoken in the middle of the night by ear-shattering crashes and shaking ground, screams from the world outside enter through the window. You’re parents come running into your room, pleading with you to get up. They tell you that it’s time to leave. You are bustled outside, where the night sky is lit up with the flames of your burning hometown. You nose is assaulted with the smell of burning flesh. Crowds of people are running, trying to escape. You and your family join the…

Reconstruction Era following the Civil War, yet it takes place prior to the actual Civil War when slavery was still commonplace. This allows Twain to retroactively satirize pre-Civil War United States with his knowledge of how American society would change in the coming years. In order to satirize the ineffective nature of the Civil War, Twain compares the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons to the North and South’s relationship during the Civil War. Twain uses the instance of the…

Matthew Tull, in his article “Stress in Children of Iraq War Soldiers”(2016), informs the reader of the harms and negative impacts PTSD war veterans can have on their family, that can cause an increase in stress and anxiety levels. Brian supports his assertion by providing the reader with factual evidence from credible sources, such as “At both points in time, they found that adolescents with family members serving in Iraq had higher heart-rate levels” (Tull). The authors purpose of this article…

During this time, Men were the ones who would enlist in the war. All the men in the family would go out and enlist themselves into the war to help defend what they thought was correct. With that being said, the women were to remain at home with the children. Although women were to stay home doing the average duties as a house wife some wanted to be with their beloved husband. As a solution women would join the battlefield grounds as nurses. These nurses who were also wives to soldiers had the…

Although war can be viewed in many different ways, Collier and Collier express their view of war and how it is gruesome and useless. They mention how it divides loyalty between families. In My Brother Sam is Dead, although both sides are shown, author's Collier and Collier ultimately argue that war is such a high price to pay and ultimately just causes devastations. They show how the generations argue and clash. They describe the principles versus the horrid reality.. They suggest that there…

After World War II, America had a few struggles until the postwar boom. The postwar boom caused a great economic outbreak, there were new jobs, there was a new suburban life, more babies were being born, and highways and interstates were being built. Americans had money, consumers were spending money, new companies were being built, new jobs were created and new technology was born. During World War II Americans earned wages but they saved much of their earnings. Even Americans who were not…

War is brutal way to solve a world problem, but sometimes necessary. Wars have been happening for years and centuries, for many different reasons. Many people have fought for love, religion, ideology, and land. The great ancestor of America, the land of the free, had snatched from the indigenous people now known as Native Americans. So in what situations can war be allowed? War can be allowed for people that are protecting family, standing for one’s rights, and when one’s life is in danger. In…

Set in World War 2 “Break of Day” is a historical fiction written by Australian author Tony Palmer which follows Murray Barrett, a coward, through war. Tony Palmer depicts themes of bravery, family and death in his novel. He states that even someone considered a coward can learn to have courage throughout a journey. Palmer portrays the view on family that people can grow, change and adapt to support and care for their family. Death is illustrated as unjust and unfair before the war, and when…

Many people helped out in the Civil War, and many lost their lives fighting for the North or the South. While many did fight, it wasn’t easy. Families were torn apart never to be seen together again. The Civil War had a big impact on so many people, even people not directly involved. The Civil War would change the US forever. Women picked up on a lot of chores at home when their husbands left for the war. Since there was no man in the house, women had to do harder chores like working on the…

“War is Kind” by Stephen Crane is a poem extremely critical of war and questions if the war and the death and destructions that the results are truly worth it. Crane uses sarcasm and irony to move the reader to be critical towards war and to see the pain it the causes. The pain suffered by the soldier is obvious, but this poem shows the pain that family members of the soldiers suffer as well. The repeated chorus, “Do not weep/for war is kind,” ties the emotional experience and the actual…