Soldier's Home By Ernest Hemingway
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Soldier’s home
Being a soldier is difficult. On the battlefield, soldiers often experience horrible things, things that are hard for non-soldiers too understand and imagine. “Soldier’s home” (1925) by Ernest Hemingway shows the hard truth behind the lives of returning soldiers, and how the soldiers often fail to fall back into their daily routines and their normal lives.
In “Soldier’s home”, we meet a young man named Harold Krebs, who recently has returned from World War 1. Harold has returned from war a lot later than most other soldiers have, and he never gets the same celebrations as his fellow soldiers upon their former return. In the beginning of the story, we get a sense that the war has taken a hard toll on Harold, because of his eager to talk about it: “Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it.” (P.1 L.16-17). Then as Harold begins to talk about the war, people quickly seems to lose interest in his stories, the have simply heard too many of them already. This makes Harold lie about his wartime: “Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie” (P.1 L. 18). Harold feels bad when he lies, but he thinks he needs to do so, so that he will be …show more content…
She tells him that he has to get a job, to contribute to society, by saying: “There can be no idle hands in His Kingdom” (P.4 L 36-37). Where to Harold replies: “I'm not in His Kingdom” (P.4 L 38). However, Harold is not in god’s kingdom because of the cruelty of the war, where there clearly was not a god present. His mother, a bit confused, asks Harold if he really love her, and Harold answer without hesitation no. He answers his mom no, because of his traumatic experience of the war, which make him unable to love another person due to his emotional instability. However, his mother is not aware of his emotional problems, and therefore she cannot identify with his
Soldier’s home
Being a soldier is difficult. On the battlefield, soldiers often experience horrible things, things that are hard for non-soldiers too understand and imagine. “Soldier’s home” (1925) by Ernest Hemingway shows the hard truth behind the lives of returning soldiers, and how the soldiers often fail to fall back into their daily routines and their normal lives.
In “Soldier’s home”, we meet a young man named Harold Krebs, who recently has returned from World War 1. Harold has returned from war a lot later than most other soldiers have, and he never gets the same celebrations as his fellow soldiers upon their former return. In the beginning of the story, we get a sense that the war has taken a hard toll on Harold, because of his eager to talk about it: “Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it.” (P.1 L.16-17). Then as Harold begins to talk about the war, people quickly seems to lose interest in his stories, the have simply heard too many of them already. This makes Harold lie about his wartime: “Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie” (P.1 L. 18). Harold feels bad when he lies, but he thinks he needs to do so, so that he will be …show more content…
She tells him that he has to get a job, to contribute to society, by saying: “There can be no idle hands in His Kingdom” (P.4 L 36-37). Where to Harold replies: “I'm not in His Kingdom” (P.4 L 38). However, Harold is not in god’s kingdom because of the cruelty of the war, where there clearly was not a god present. His mother, a bit confused, asks Harold if he really love her, and Harold answer without hesitation no. He answers his mom no, because of his traumatic experience of the war, which make him unable to love another person due to his emotional instability. However, his mother is not aware of his emotional problems, and therefore she cannot identify with his