Analysis of Attack on Leningrad and Grave of the Fireflies
Nguyen Chuong
ID: 1372665
We can see in Attack on Leningrad and Grave of the Fireflies that the citizens of Leningrad and Japan suffered a lot in World War II. Discuss three aspects of their suffering that were similar and three aspects of their suffering that were different.
Annihilation of Second World War has been recorded as the biggest aftermath of war ever escalated by human kind that caused unfading widespread human sufferings. At the time, people living in Leningrad and Japan inevitably suffered from the outcome of the ongoing war that put them in jeopardy. The two movies Attack on Leningrad and Grave of the Fireflies partly depict the whole picture of the brutality of the war on a grand scale.
Throughout the two movies, hunger is the easiest audiences can sense in the eyes of each and every soldier and citizen that spreads out all over the battlegrounds. Besides a number of deaths caused by the direct consequences of the war such as injuries, violence, gun firing, many people die in vain due to severe lack of food. One of the most representative images of starvation caused by war is the tale of Setsuko and Seita in the movie Grave of the Fireflies. After being evicted from the house because their poor adopter is unable to nurture them, the two orphaned siblings struggle themselves for each grain of rice, tomatoes and any eatable things they find and steal in the surrounding areas until Setsuko is detected with disease deriving from hunger.
As a consequence of being permanently starved during war time, cannibalism – an ideology defined as the act of eating human flesh raised among people of Leningrad. At the time, so desperately did malnourished people struggle to seek for food and so empty was their stomach that some started to eat human flesh as a way of survival. Not until the anti-Nazis resistance combat conducted by the Soviet troops in Leningrad did cannibalism start to decline. In contrast, Japanese at that time did not face this disgusting
ID: 1372665
We can see in Attack on Leningrad and Grave of the Fireflies that the citizens of Leningrad and Japan suffered a lot in World War II. Discuss three aspects of their suffering that were similar and three aspects of their suffering that were different.
Annihilation of Second World War has been recorded as the biggest aftermath of war ever escalated by human kind that caused unfading widespread human sufferings. At the time, people living in Leningrad and Japan inevitably suffered from the outcome of the ongoing war that put them in jeopardy. The two movies Attack on Leningrad and Grave of the Fireflies partly depict the whole picture of the brutality of the war on a grand scale.
Throughout the two movies, hunger is the easiest audiences can sense in the eyes of each and every soldier and citizen that spreads out all over the battlegrounds. Besides a number of deaths caused by the direct consequences of the war such as injuries, violence, gun firing, many people die in vain due to severe lack of food. One of the most representative images of starvation caused by war is the tale of Setsuko and Seita in the movie Grave of the Fireflies. After being evicted from the house because their poor adopter is unable to nurture them, the two orphaned siblings struggle themselves for each grain of rice, tomatoes and any eatable things they find and steal in the surrounding areas until Setsuko is detected with disease deriving from hunger.
As a consequence of being permanently starved during war time, cannibalism – an ideology defined as the act of eating human flesh raised among people of Leningrad. At the time, so desperately did malnourished people struggle to seek for food and so empty was their stomach that some started to eat human flesh as a way of survival. Not until the anti-Nazis resistance combat conducted by the Soviet troops in Leningrad did cannibalism start to decline. In contrast, Japanese at that time did not face this disgusting