The movie I chose to review is the Lone Survivor. Lone Survivor was released on…
This paints the horrible reality of war by restating the fact that their walking ground is a shit field. O’Brien uses personification to show that soldiers are nearly identical by having the same motives and witnessing the same gruesome images of bloody corpses and missing limbs or the heartache of losing a close friend. The idea of dead bodies everywhere and literal shit underneath their feet “seemed to erase identities, transforming the men into identical copies of a single soldier,” they are not only having to spare their emotional peace of mind by entering the threshold of war, but the conditions could not be any worse (O’Brien 1). They are so extremely mistreated that they basically turn off, they become robots following what their leader tells them and taking lives without a thought in mind that the enemy is human and has a family. The soldiers have to put a brave foot forward and block out gory of blood and the unbearable pain of gunshot noises that pierce through the sky.…
The cries of war come in different shapes and sizes. While Anthony Swofford cried most of his tears through his memoir, others who served in the Marine Corps during his time had found other ways to cry. In the Swofford’s memoir, Jarhead, he illustrates how one of his former comrades at war had handled the aftermath of service in the Marines during the Gulf War. “I asked him if maybe he should talk to someone at the Veterans Administration hospital, and he declined, insisting that they could not tell him anything he didn’t already know. Before we hung up, he said, “We fired the same rifle. You have the same problems as me.”” While Swofford seemed to be in good functioning condition, his old comrade Fergus seemed to have been struggling psychologically with the aftermath effects of the war. Fergus’ psychological issues seemed to be his own cry into the world outside of the Marine Corps. Swofford and all of his crew mates experienced the horrors…
War affects all of us, even those not directly involved. Although both “For 7515-03296” and “Army of Music” have their suffering based on the same war and similar situations, the type of suffering portrayed is based on two different (but not opposite) tones. These tones dictate to whom the characters’ emotions are directed.…
In her debut novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers perfectly captures the sense of human isolation. Throughout her book, McCullers masterfully maintains the unrelenting motif of loneliness by providing intimate details of the lives of five different characters. However, despite being stuck in the stifling, soul crushing South, Mick Kelly rises above the recurring theme of disillusionment and burns bright with ambition and emotion. With her passion for music, her sensitivity towards others, and her growing relationship with her family, Mick Kelly gives readers confidence that she will have a hopeful future.…
"Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing anymore. I am so alone and so without hope that I can confront them without fear" War is a political hotbed. Regardless of the warring nations’ reasons or the outcome, in the wake of the battle, the soldier, or country’s hero, actually becomes the victim. Youth is sacrificed, lives are lost, and the survivors are forever altered.…
The novel depicts how the war brings out disrespect and selfishness in the soldiers. Just like their constant companions the lice and the rats, the soldiers in the trench adapt to the hell that they find themselves trapped in – doing whatever it takes to survive. They even fight each other over food ‘at each others throats like hungry, snarling animals’. As the novel and the war progresses so does the inhumane side of the soldiers who become increasing more detached from killing, unconcerned with the death of friends. The soldiers are conditioned, hardened up and desensitised with self preservation becoming a key motivator. This is shown as the soldiers plunder the city of Arras, the allies ' town and vandalize houses with no consideration of the local people who will come back to a raided and shelled town. As they ransack the town ‘chewing food while pillaging,’ stealing and destroying people’s possessions, self satisfaction is their only concern. The soldiers become feral and even rebel against and shoot at their own Military Police who are trying to restore order. By these merciless and selfish acts the dark side of the soldiers’ nature is revealed.…
This heartfelt and meaningful event that the men were put through made them realize that we need to society, in a world full chaos, to potentially fight whatever may come our way.…
State of devastation was left behind, once the war had ended and people were free. Families were destroyed with no clue how to rebuild their foundation. War has stained the streets with red, and for the first time people were forced to see the reality of what “turning your cheek” can really do. To let one run so far with they hate had left our society in shambles. This compelled us, as human beings to change. By building off compassion and empathy, to start a new love for our humanity and the generation to come.…
In Stephen King’s short story “Survivor Type”, King uses imagery, setting and irony to ask the question “What will a person risk in order to survive?” In this short story, Richard Pine, a medical school graduate, surgeon and a pill pusher is on his way back home to the United States with 2 Kilos of heroin, when the cruise ship that he is on sinks after an enormous explosion. Dr. Pine manages to get onto a life boat that takes him to a deserted island which Pine describes as small enough to spit across. He is on the island with very few resources and of course the 2 kilos of heroin worth $350,000. Richard Pine resorts to killing gulls in order to suppress his hunger but then ends up falling into a hole and fracturing his ankle. This disability leaves Pine vulnerable to nature and unable to fully function in killing his food on the island. He is then left realizing how and what he will do in order to survive until someone rescues him. When hunger overcomes his body and he is unable to kill his food, Dr. Pine starts slowly eating away at his own body, in hopes of being rescued very soon. He takes the heroin to dull the pain from the amputation. Days turn into weeks and Richard Pine is left eating the one thing that was most valuable in his life--his hands.…
In dehumanizing the soldiers, the reader gets a sense of violence and masculinity involved in the animal kingdom. Unfortunately, Cummings and Croft are also the novel's principal…
“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” ― Charles Darwin.…
In the novel Catcher In The Rye, by J.D. Salinger the main character, Holden is very secluded and alienated from the rest of the world. He is not alienated in a physical way, but in a mental way. Holden is a hypocritical misfit and shows the audience how lost he feels in his life. Holden is lost and confused, trying to find his way between two phases in his life. Holden uses alienation as defense mechanism for his self- protection from the outside world, and puts up a bitter wall around himself allowing no one to get close to him.…
Owen effectively uses figurative language within his poem so the reader is able to apprehend the state of the soldiers’ pains and sufferings through the use of hyperboles and similes. Within the first stanza, Owen describes the soldiers to be ‘coughing like hags’ using the simile of ‘like’ and imagery to make the audience picture the soldiers walking on and coughing horrendously trying to relieve their lungs during the war. The hyperbole ‘Men marched asleep’ heightens the struggle of the men as they trudge their way through war. They’re robots struggling to stay awake through their journey of survival and the pity of war. ‘All went lame; all blind’ is another hyperbole that symbolises the soldiers bodies not being able to respond and unable to see what was happening in front of them because of the gas.…
This passage is very significant to the reality of the soldiers in the Vietnam War and brings to life the setting of the entire novel. The soldiers were primarily teenagers and young men in their early twenties who had not yet had the chance to experience life. They soon had found themselves in the midst of an intense war with nothing but uncertainty and fear. They hated it and they loved the fear and adrenaline that ran through their skin and bones. It was a crucial part of their young lives that changed the way they would see their own world. In this passage it shows how the characters perceived the war as their feelings changed everyday, every hour, and even every minute. A strong message is presented through this passage as it brings forth the true raw emotion of the soldiers and the reality of war; which is a major theme throughout the novel.…