Comrade

"Why should I go back when there is so much delicious fruit sitting on this island just for me?" while munching one of the fresh Lotus fruits I found. Yum, yum, yummy. I could never starve, ever on this island with all this fruit. Odysseus asks my comrades who came with me and were also munching on the fruit if they had any intention of going home which was a big fat…

The overall theme of Animal Farm by George Orwell is inequality and power. “For the time being, the young pigs were given the instructions by Napoleon himself in farmhouse kitchen. They took their exercise in the garden, and were discouraged from playing with the other young animals” (Orwell pg. 96). Inequality between the animals arose through the leadership of Napoleon, who is a pig as well, with Squealer, his speaker and is a pig. Piglets were given special treatment because they were thought…

The two poems, “The Seafarer” and “The Wanderer” have many similarities. Both poems are about a tremendous journey to find their place in heaven. “The Seafarer” and “The Wanderer” have their hardships and they have loneliness and sorrow throughout their journeys. The poems both use words like “icy” and “wintry,” which shown how hard the journey was. The Wanderer is forced to wander on the journey to heaven while The Seafarer choose to go on a journey. The Wanderer was forced to go on the…

selfish hogging of the milk and apples seem noble and compassionate, instead of egocentric. “‘Comrades!’ [Squealer] cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are…

Agamemnon doesn’t has the godlike strength of Gilgamesh. Therefore, while Gilgamesh usually fight alongside his comrades, Agamemnon does the job of rallying. Moreover, after the fight with Enkidu, Gilgamesh makes Enkidu his brother and stops forcing sex on women. Agamemnon, on the other hand, would steal Achilles’s prize, beauty Briseis, away from him, and the action was carried out by his comrade, not himself. Lastly, Gilgamesh develops as a king after the arrivals Enkidu. After acquiring “The…

Orwell’s Animal Farm involves a farm of animals who are disgusted by the farm owner, Mr. Jones for abusiveness and lack of taking care of the animals. He (Jones) had fallen into depression over receiving notice of a lawsuit and turned to excessive alcohol consumption and neglecting the farm. The animals are fed up with this and chase him and his men off the farm. Since Old Major died not too long before this, the animals needed a new leader. Napoleon kicked his way in and made himself the…

More than 65 million men from 60 countries fought in World War I, a war between the Allies and the Central Powers. The German army enlisted approximately two million eight hundred thousand soldiers to fight for the Central Powers. One of those men, convinced by his schoolmaster Kantorek to enlist as the patriotic thing to do, was a nineteen-year-old student named Paul Baumer. Paul encountered many hardships during his time on the front. Despite these hardships, in the novel All Quiet on the…

knowing what is really happening. The government is dehumanizing their citizens by forcing them to call each other comrade instead of their real names. This is proven in the book when Winston tells us, “Mrs.” Was a word somewhat discountenanced by the Party- you were supposed…

recognized due to the extremes underwent to save his comrades. On one occasion, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machinegun fire crashed and inflicted 75 casualties. As a company aid man, PFC Doss refused cover and carried all 75 casualties down to safe hands. On another occasion, PFC Doss exposed himself to heavy rifle and mortar fire in order to rescue a wounded man. A few days later, he advanced through a shower of grenades to treat 4 comrades. In the cave, he treated their…

the cruelty of losing a comrade. From the perspective of Paul and his classmates, joining the army seemed like the best decision. Though some of the students, like Joseph Behm, seemed nervous and not to eager to join his persuaded classmates, he to eventually confirmed out of the fear of being a coward. These unfortunate events are to be blamed on their ignorant teacher Kantorek. With his lacking knowledge of actual war, Kantorek simply says, “Won’t you join up, Comrades?” and makes it…