A Family at War

Community War often changes the way people see the world if they do not have a strong community. In the novel, A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael starts off his life vigorously due to him having a strong community. However, as time goes by his life begins to become consumed by the ever raging war going on around him. He later starts to separate from his family due to the war and is then transformed into a solider for the military. Beah uses his life story to convey the theme community…

Children of the Civil War were an essential part of society both on the home front and the battlefield. The civil war impacted everyone whether soldier or civilian, while the battles and monstrosities witnessed had detrimental affects for all. Children were pressured to mature quickly and face the horrible trials of the war at young ages from the perception of the home front and the battlefield. Whether it was the task of keeping things going at home, or heroism and sacrifice at the combat zone…

If World War One could be described in one word it could be evolutionary. With the troubling worries of the past reoccurring, the people of Europe never wanted to experience anything like it again. The war to end all wars is what people thought, or at least wanted to think. According to Oxford dictionary the definition of war is, a state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country. Through the violent, gory and society changing war, people developed a…

during the Second World War and follows the footsteps of a nine-year-old boy, Bruno. Bruno and his family have moved from their house in Berlin to Auschwitz due to their fathers position as commandment. Unhappy and lonely, he goes exploring behind his house one day and finds Shmuel, and a friendship begins. Boyne has utilised the narrative conventions of characterisation and setting to highlight the themes of racism and hate, nobody is born racist and the harsh realities of war. In doing so,…

11/25 I stopped my reading for one day to relax my mind; I was unconsciously effected by the war Ishmael was in. I detested the rebel who killed his family, friends, and country. The war between the government and the rebels ruined the citizens peaceful lives. Families were separated, and children were brought to fright against their friend in different sides. Most children who became a soldier were either killed others or be killed by others, for most of them turned to be indifference, addicted…

similarities between the plot developed in Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours. For instance, the two plots were set at a time when the first war was taking place. Consequently, the author had to develop characters that took part in the war. Additionally, the effects of the war on the family setting are depicted in both plots. The role of the wives after their husband are away at war is also a shared similarity. In both plots, there is the role of Clarissa. In addition, the role played by Clarissa in…

death by looking into his past and learning about my family history. By discovering and studying my family history, my general understanding of history has been significantly broadened. My mother's family is of Japanese descent, and my grandpa and his family were held in Japanese internment camps during the Second World War. When my grandpa passed away, I was only 10, and in elementary school we had barely brushed over the details of World War Two- other than the facts that Franklin D.…

helping the Civil War from 1861 to 1899 (Senker). “As is almost always the case in wartime, these women proved they were capable of doing these things, breaking down the cultural stereotypes regarding the appropriate role for women and what women’s work truly was” (“Transcript: Women of the North and the South”). The raging war created new kinds of opportunities for woman to take actions they were once not allowed to take. When the Civil War started, many men left their families to go fight for…

“War is hell” (O’Brien 1154). That simple line enlightens so much about what war is and how it is portrayed throughout this short story. The author contradicts himself as he tells the story, to make the point that every contradiction has a story in its own. Three of the most memorable quotes are, “…war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty” (1155). “War makes you a man; war makes you dead” (1155). Lastly, “In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, … in…

recruited the Hmong people in Laos to fight in the “Secret War” using guerilla tactics in order to halt the spread of communism. But this war would bring the Hmong people much suffering and hardships. In order to escape, the Hmong people would try to immigrate to America, but the many obstacles and hardships would block most of them. Like the Hmong people, a man named Odysseus in a poem called “The Odyssey” by Homor, fights in a bloody war for ten years, and they win, but the real trouble starts…