In Friend Grief and 9/11: The Forgotten Mourners you'll learn how they adjust to life without their friends and find ways to honor those they lost on a clear, blue…
The Pain of War in “The Minefield” and “How to Tell a True War Story” The stories, “The Minefield” by Diane Thiel and “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien, have a similar theme that is horror in war. In the same way, the poem and the short story, it describes the loss of a significant other as the narrator is telling the story. As the reader, I got a view that this could be very devastating as in the story. “The Minefield” the author is telling the story about her father had mentioned her about a friend who died a horrific death during the war when both of his friend and him were young.…
Then Terry, father diagnosed by a doctor that something is wrong with him. An example from the text found on page 50 when it states,”It’s from the war, his mother had said. The doctors at the veterans’ hospital call it the Vietnam syndrome.”This is important because a doctor had said that he had a syndrome from the war and it’s probable PTSD.…
In the story "Home Soil" by Irene Zabytko, the reader is enlightened about a boy who was mentally and emotionally drained from the horrifying experiences of war. The father in the story knows exactly what the boy is going through, but he cannot help him, because everyone encounters his or her own recollection of war. "When their faces are contorted from sucking the cigarette, there is an unmistakable shadow of vulnerability and fear of living. That gesture and stance are more eloquent than the blood and guts war stories men spew over their beers" (Zabytko 492). The father, as a young man, was forced to reenact some of the same obligations, yet the father has learned to let go of the past, while the son is still caught in the presents of the war. The son 's memories of the war seem to overpower his ability to interact socially with family and friends. The father can only hope and pray that his son will one day regain the emotional stability that he used to have before the affects of Vietnam.…
Many people, in some point in their lives will experience a death of a loved one and will try to cope with it as best as they can. In “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien talks about his war stories and how he and the soldiers handled the deaths of the soldiers while at war. The soldiers had to deal with the stress, sadness, and guilt when seeing their partner get killed. O’Brien talks about the different coping mechanisms the soldiers use when facing the death of a fellow comadre. The soldiers tell jokes, write letters, tell stories, take responsibility of their death, and even reenact the death scene.…
Soldiers looked for ways to communicate their experience to those who were not soldiers. O”Brien, Komunyakka, and Owen are soldiers who each wrote a text describing soldiers at war from their personal point of view. O”Brien writes to get others to understand the physical, mental, and emotional things soldiers carried during war. Komunyakka writes to get others to understand how the soldiers must face death and reality at the same time while also having emotions as any other human does. Owen writes and exhibits his frustration with the condition that the soldiers were in and the point of view of people who haven’t experienced war first hand. All three soldiers wrote to better communicate with the world the conditions and reality to those…
Things aren't always as they seem. My great great great uncle Gutlib, was born sixteen years before the American Civil War was at its height. Gutlib bravely went to fight for the Union. Soon after he went to fight, communication ceased between Gutlib and his family. During the war, the family was unsure whether Gutlib was alive, all they had keeping them going was the hope that he was okay. After the war ended, the family still hadn’t heard from him for weeks, possibly months, and he was presumed dead. His family mourned his death, shocked that he was killed in the war. They held a funeral in his honor and were completely devastated by their loss. The weeks passed and nothing changed. Then one day, while looking over the hill that the family house faced in Pennsylvania,…
Imagine facing the horrors of a war at the young age of 19. In the real world as well as fictional novels, the Vietnam War was considered to be a war unlike any other. Many soldiers faced untold brutal challenges, and often wondered who the enemy really was. In many depicted pieces of literature such as Fallen Angels the fictional stories cannot begin to compare to the real traumatic ones. Research has shown that the traumatic circumstances have caused soldiers mental stress. Research shows the brutality that the soldiers of the Vietnam War went through, the novel Fallen Angels and the video series “Dear America: Letters Home” are very similar in this depiction, but also have slight differences.…
Arriving home from school, being picked up by his neighbors, “At two o’ clock our neighbors drove me home”(3). He heard the devastating news that someone died in his family. Upon arriving home, “In the porch I met my crying father”(4), showed how death can causes so much trauma and confusion. His father crying,…
In the book “The Things They Carried” Ted lavender group faces a series of tragedies throughout they war. When Lt. Cross dies and also Kiowa dies in the pile of sh**t field. In the book “Rite of passage” by Richard Wright the protagonist Johnny finds out the family he has been living with is a foster family and he decides to run away thinking the streets will take care of him but he tragically dies in a Robbery break-in. when his parents find out they are shocked and will have to live with this guilt all their lives. People face tragedy and don’t realize how it affects them physically and…
It was October third a thursday night after our freshman football game. Lying in bed, not able to sleep, I hear the doorbell ring and parents going down stairs. Peaking my head around the corner to see who it could be at 11:03 pm. Just to see two state troopers standing in the doorway. My mind and heart automatically beginning to race, and my heart instantly dropping. To hear “I'm sorry to say but your son has been killed in a car accident in Ames Iowa”. A devastating night I will remember forever. With emotions being spilled and tears being shed it’s hard to stay strong for each other in that specific moment, but I know that I have to be there…
Staying alive through the war wasn’t the only struggle that the soldiers of the Vietnam War faced. In the novel, The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, the damages are illustrated to see the psychological strain. For some soldiers, trying to forget the unforgettable for some soldiers was more traumatizing than the war itself: Killing people, watching them die; these are all the things that the soldiers have to live with, but some just can’t live with it. The mental and physical trauma that was brought upon by the Vietnam War, still affects United States, and the stressed topic of the things the soldiers were carrying.…
The short story I chose to write my essay on is "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. The soldiers in the story had to deal with not only accepting the deaths of those they became close with, but also dealing with the knowledge that they took another human beings' life. The author shows how they had to carry not only their equipment; but the emotions that came along with being in a war. The emotions I speak of are ones that come from knowing they were mere grunts-and as such, were replaceable. That moment where they silly cease to exist could arrive when they least expected it. This analysis is about the way Cross and his soldiers dealt with the war, not physically but emotionally.…
Some of the most popular pictures are those of soldiers running up to their families right after getting off of the plane from a tour of duty, crying, and thankful that they are back home and safe. But how many of us actually care about those soldiers beyond knowing that they are home and safe? Ron Kovic’s autobiography, Born on the Fourth of July, is out to prove that going through a war has an affect beyond what most of the population sees; there are life-long effects, especially for those who come back injured and maimed. Every aspect of Ron Kovic’s life changed when he came back from the war and couldn’t move over half of his body and, for the most part, he had to deal with all of these changes on his own.…
Everyday, all day and night there is constant bombing going on. In sunrise over Fallujah the CA unit have had reports of a bombing of a hospital and a village. The CA unit is feeling mixed emotions because they don't want innocent people to die but they also went to make it back to their families. In iraq everyday innocent people families are becoming smaller because of the constant bombing. The unit don't know the families personally but they understand the rollercoaster effect they are going through.While being over there have been a life changing experience. Just seeing they’re not from the same side of the world, the unit still feel the heartache of losing someone close to you. Mentally and physically they were not ready to see that much death at one time so young. But seeing it everyday caused them to get immune to it mentally and caused the unit to develop and get stronger mentally. The more they saw death they got stronger and hope the family members of the deceased gets through there phase of the heart aching rollercoaster…