(5)Near the end of the story, the theme becomes apparent, that is because even with the losses and Martin, (one of the only few that made it back from no mans land who managed to crawl back into the trenches)the regiment did not reach their objective but instead just got mowed down.(6) As wounded Martin attempted to get back inside his trench, he describes that he sees on the way back “Again and again he passed…
hope was what they carried, the men had to leave that behind as the war progressed and carry their…
They had to survive Africa’s harsh environment, which has plenty of lions, poisonous snakes, and enemy soldiers. They traveled over a hundred miles to Ethiopia, back to Sudan and then to Kenya. They had to remember all of their good times they had to keep that will to live; they also had to make the journey for the friends that they made, and for the ones that they lost. These kids were not the only people that experienced this, but rather plenty of people experienced this during the ongoing Sudanese civil war. This book truly showed the horrors of this war, or any war for that matter and the amount of determination you must have just to survive. This war has displaced many Sudanese people throughout the country. Soldiers would destroy people and their homes and forcing many from the lands that they called home. They had nowhere to go or to run to, so they just ran to safety. That is the reason they are referred as “The Lost Boys.” This war is very horrific and has many casualties; many of which were innocent people just trying to live their life. It could also be said that these series of tribal wars displace the trust of the Sudanese people, let alone the Africans. These wars pit each countryman versus fellow countryman, serving…
They have to face the struggles of being homesick, frostbite, digging in, and staying alive. The “Battle of the Bulge” is where everything really began. After the germans moved into the americans territory, things didn’t slow down. Christmas came around and the boys had thought of home and how things could've been instead of freezing in an underground hole. Both of the boys weren’t alone, Spence had a boy named Ted who resembled himself, and Dieter had Schaefer a wise advice giving Lieutenant. There are many battles throughout the book and the intensity never goes away while…
From the 27th of May to the 4th of June, there were the nine days of evacuation of British, French, Belgian and Dutch soldiers alike. They were trapped in the small town of Dunkirk due to the port that was there. After waiting for days, the majority were eventually rescued by a combination of naval vessels and civilian boats as well as fishing boats and ferries. It is regarded as a great victory for the British as it saved many lives although a military victory for the Germans.…
were an escape from the war, the death, and the suspicion of not returning home. Immediately upon the…
Once the young men of a country get pushed off to war many hardships follow in the homeland. Everyone in this novel was affected by war in the same way. All of the young man that went to…
Our circumstances are often not ours by choice, but how we respond to our circumstances is our choice. Deo did not choose to be born in Burundi nor did he choose to live in a place that would erupt in incredible violence. He did, however, choose to survive. He chose to run, hide in the forest, work for unfair wages, and chose to survive. It was also more than choice. It was a fight and it was not easy. “Moments were the only time he knew,” Kidder writes. “He spent nearly every moment worrying about the next. Six months felt like a minute, and moments when it felt like there was no time in front of him felt like an eternity.” (Kidder, 2009) Deo beheld horrific sights as he fled for his life. Dismembered bodies, an infant with a dead mother, and entire villages…
Slaves had the hardest time living. Surviving is not living, and the slaves had the hardest time surviving. They lived in an time where they were looked down upon and had no rights. They endured criticisms and abuses, often sneaking away in the dark like thieves to risk their lives for freedom. They did everything necessary to live another day, often doing things against what they believed in.…
When the environment dramatically changes, humans are left with a false choice: accept or resist; only one of those options, acceptance, leads to survival. People often like to think that, in any given situation, there is a choice. However, when one of the options is suffering and death, no choice exists at all. Life is evolutionarily programed for survival. One of the primary tools of survival is adaptation. If the situation one finds oneself in is irreparably difficult, dangerous, or deadly, adapting to the situation is the only way one can hope to survive.…
Furthermore, Abraham was a very strong person mentally and physically, getting through that and dealing with having to flee his home at the age of 9. Besides all the struggles and pain he suffered, Abraham challenges he faced were having to flee his home and village and the pain of not being with his family. Half of the 20,000 boys who fled Sudan, made it to Kakuma Refugee camp in…
During the Civil War, over two million men and boys went to war, each with varied backgrounds and different stories to be told. While it is hard for many modern day Americans to fathom the hell these soldiers faced on a daily basis, it is possible to recreate illustrations of all the hardships faced through many documents recorded by the men with their first-person accounts of the battles. The lifestyle of a soldier in the Civil War consisted of multiple hardships on a daily basis which caused frequent issues in war, diminishing the number of troops on either side and causing the performance of the survivors to fall. Many of these problems are caused by extreme physical stress, many facing starvation due to malnourishment,…
Accidents happen, illnesses can bring down anyone, and you can't always trust the people you think you can. With so many wildcards thrown into a survival scenario, it shouldn't be surprising that sheer, dumb luck and random fate will liking determine how long and how well you will survive. Granted, if you have no skills or help from others, you won't last long anyway, but let's assume you can at least run and find food. Even after you've been doing it for awhile, there's no guarantee that a tree branch won't fall on your head or you won't get hit by the only car that you've seen driving around in 2 months. At this point, everything comes down to chance.…
Those who believe this are convinced that it is better to be the survivor so that others do not have to watch you suffer and don’t have to be the ones living on and remembering this. However the people who believe this fail to recognize that at this point in time, everyone is feeling some sort of agony. Whatever one can do to stay uncontaminated, should be done. However, in some occasions, this can be emotionally heartbreaking. People are abandoning their own family members for safety.…
In literature, the theme of many stories about WWII is surviving while under brutal conditions. In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, some US soldiers were stranded on a raft that could barely hold itself together. They had life threatening conditions like no food, water, or shelter that left only Louis Zaporelli to survive the sea.…