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Findley in “Stones” explains David’s noble intentions to join the Canadian army. The “reason for [David’s] enlistment” before the war had even started was to prevent the enlistment of his sons, Cy and Ben. David wishes to protect his sons from the traumatic experience of the war. Though David had not yet experienced post-war trauma…

Selfishness is defined as a person who only cares for themselves and ignores the thoughts, feelings, or needs of others. Graham Greene manifests two different types of Thomas Fowler in the “The Quite American”: a war spectator Fowler in the beginning and war active Fowler at the end of the novel. Fowler is a British journalist that reports the war in Vietnam. It is in Vietnam, where he meets Phuong, a beautiful and relatively young Vietnamese girl who becomes his new lover in his life. After…

B: Australians are used to thinking that a journey is physical but they never think that the journey could be a spiritual one. In Jackie French’s 1993 novel, ‘Walking the Boundaries’ Martin, the main character, goes on a physical and spiritual journey where he learns about his family’s past and the importance of looking after the land. A: Thesis Statement: Jackie French uses third person narrative, an obvious plot and descriptive language to intrigue and engage the reader to see the physical…

The battle was the most surreal example of how many men it was possible to slaughter in battle. Overall, it was shocking, morbid, and horrendous how much death there was, especially to the people of that time who hadn’t experienced this level of barbarity. With the invention of the camera, more people were able to see this devastation and read about it in poems, such as the one that is the center of our focus. Now, that we understand the poet and the setting, on to Melville’s poem, Shiloh: A…

Thousands of people join our military and risk their lives to fight for their country. After many years of fighting in war soldiers are no longer who they used to be. When they return home they are looked at, treated badly, and are not given the treatment needed to recover. The struggles and obstacles these veterans face on their journey home and once they arrive forever face. In the epic poem, Odyssey by Homer, it shows the obstacles a soldier has to face on their journey. Odysseus and his men…

This observation was probably made by the novelist as he had travelled all over India, even to the Punjab, during his service in the army. However, this is a very dispassionate description of the carnage, although its horrors have been described very graphically. He too must have been stunned by the violence and the carnage that was the culmination of the freedom struggle. Manohar Malgonkar has also drawn the attention of the reader towards the ideals which no longer hold water and the creed of…

O”Brien, Komunyakka, and Owen were soldiers who each wrote a text describing soldiers at war from their personal point of view. O”Brien described in his text “The things they carried,” the physical, mental, and emotional things soldiers carried. Komunyakka expresses in his text “Facing It” how the soldiers must face death and reality at the same time and in Komunyakkas’ text “We Never Know” he is connecting emotionally with a fallen enemy soldier through a picture of a women. In Owen’s text…

was something Alexander lusted for. Those who he failed to persuade to live under his rule he overpowered with his army, forcing his leadership upon them. When it came to combat Alexander excelled in strategizing and outsmarting his opponents. His tactics and reasoning are…

a backlash from the civilian populace that could put us into a worse situation than before. Even though there will always be the intrinsic risk that following the ROE may lead to a mission failure or the death of eleven SEALs team members and eight Army Night Stalkers, as was the case in Lone Survivor, commanders and individuals on the battlefield must keep the larger mission in…

War can either tear families apart or bring them together. In the case of one soldier, his character is tested when he must choose between his humanity and survival. He ultimately chooses survival, tearing his family apart in the worst way. However, this eventually changes him for the better. Liam O’ Flaherty expresses this in his short story, “The Sniper” where he uses imagery and setting to convey that survival threatens a soldier’s humanity. Liam O’ Flaherty uses vivid descriptions of the…