Arthur Tsao 25 January 2011 Ritchie 1 All Quiet on the Western Front: Literary Log #1 “We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhaur. At first astonished‚ then embittered‚ and finally indifferent‚ we recognized that what matters is not the mind but the boot brush‚ not intelligence but the system‚ not freedom but drill” (22). In this quote‚ Remarque explains the differences between valuable material and knowledge. The imagery he describes compares “educational”
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Ender’s Game Comparative Essay In China‚ there is currently a one-child policy that has been in place since 1979 regulating the number of children a couple is authorized to have in order to keep the population stable. Similarly‚ in Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card‚ they possess a two-child policy to regulate poverty. In both cases‚ there are exceptions for special circumstances. For example‚ Ender Wiggin is the third child in his family only because they have special authorization. He was recruited
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The title of my book was Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes and it was a fiction book‚ published in 2003. Soldier Boys was during WWII in Germany and Brighman City‚ Utah. It tells the story of an American and German teenaged boy. They join the war and fight in the battle of the Bulge. Spencer Morgan on the American side and Dieter Hedrick on the German side. Dieter at the age fifteen got promoted from the Hitler Youth to the German army. He wants to prove to everyone that he is brave and that he can go
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The main character in The Lucky One is Logan Thibault. Logan is a complex character that develops and changes as the book continues. At the start of the book Logan is a soldier in the war. He has witnessed several of his fellow soldiers die‚ he soon finds a photo of a women while stationed at a camp. After finding the photo‚ he begins to experience a string of good luck. He survives several traumatic events when others did not. Logan describes the photo as “Finding something like that in a war is
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The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien uses narratives to evoke various thoughts within the reader. Yet Mary Anne Bell’s story is a cautionary tale of the influence the battlefield has on a person. One of the medics‚ Mark Fossie‚ decides to bring his high school sweetheart right into the war‚ not comprehending the cost of his action. The war turns innocent‚ naïve soldiers into brutal‚ desensitized killers; Mary Anne being no exception. Her tale illustrates how the war physically and mentally alters
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At age nineteen‚ Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist in the German army of World War I. His elders constantly pushed him to sign up for war‚ as serving his nation was seen as the greatest honor of all. People like his old schoolmaster convinced him and his classmates that war was an honor and constantly romanticized the idea of fighting for your country. Since all these ideas of defending the German pride were indoctrinated into his head‚ Paul absent mindedly followed along without questioning
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him‚ but because he loves what is behind him (Chesterson). War is always devastating‚ bringing only the worst out of all the evil in the world and The First of July written by Elizabeth Speller‚ published in 2013 takes place in one of the biggest war in history‚ World War One. Unlike many books‚ Speller takes a different approach of not just revolving around one character‚ but four to show the complete picture of the soldiers in the
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The term F.U.B.A.R originated in World War Two and was used as a military acronym by United States soldiers. During World War Two‚ F.U.B.A.R was used to describe the chaos and bedlam involved with trench warfare. It is unknown what word the term originated from‚ but it is suspected that it comes from the German word Furchtbar‚ which means terrible. F.U.B.A.R can be translated into two ways‚ Fucked Up Beyond All Repair‚ and Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition. Despite having slightly different connotations
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The novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ shows tremendous amount of symbolism‚ and the main symbol would be the importance of Kemmerich’s boots. In the battlefield‚ the boots were considered one of the most prized possession one could ever own amongst the soldiers. The boots also represented how the soldiers in the battlegrounds were extremely poor and in despair from the war itself. The author‚ Remarque‚ depicts as if the boots are more valuable and longer-lasting than lives on the battlefield
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The book Quiet American is a great book. Author Graham Greene uses the Thomas Fowler and Alden Pyle to represent a great picture. In the interactions among these characters‚ he is simplifying the situation in Vietnam into a personal model to be viewed. Graham Greene developed the attitude and personalities of his characters almost to be a condensed legend of the countries they represented. The actions and the opinions formed on them by others‚ was a reflection of the general feeling overall in Vietnam
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