the age of seven to begin the training of a warrior. These boys where placed into groups also referred to as “packs” and sent to Agoge‚ what we today call boot camp. While in Agoge they became accustomed to hardship and given just minimal amounts of food and clothing to survive. By having just enough to get by they were encouraged to steal. If they where caught stealing they would be punished‚ not for stealing‚ but for being caught. The boys where also encouraged to compete in mock fights and games
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Owen’s poem "Disabled" is about a soldier who came home from WWI missing limbs‚ and how this disability changed his life. This poem was written when Owen was in Craiglockhart War Hospital being treated for shell shock. It is very likely that he saw numerous soldiers like the one he describes in this poem while he was at the hospital. It was common that soldiers would return home missing limbs or severely wounded‚ there wasn’t a whole lot that could be done for soldiers while they were on the frontline;
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Just as the fly escapes one close scrape with death only to find itself doused with one blot of ink‚ then another‚ and another‚ many of the young soldiers in World War One were thrust forward into battle again and again until they‚ like the fly‚ were killed. As the fly is the boss’s plaything‚ able to live or die based on the latter’s whim‚ the soldiers were little more than
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kills or fights. To delineate‚ one day there was a challenge for the soldiers to kill rebel prisoners and Ishmael said he did not‚ “feel anything’ for him.” in reference to the prisoner. Ishmael later says‚ “The prisoner was simply another rebel responsible for the death of my family.” (124). All he knew was that the prisoner deserved to die. The revenge seeking technique is very effective in transforming Ishmael into a true soldier while in turn ridding him of his humanity‚ because it fuels him along
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Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque‚ WWI soldiers learn the cold hard facts about how nothing good comes out of wars. Not everyone is born a fighter‚ some are peer pressured into volunteering not knowing the treacherous path ahead of them. Throughout the book Remarque uses symbolism to express the gruesome effects on soldiers. Remarque uses multiple symbols to show the withering down on the emotional state of the young soldiers. When one of the men’s comrades‚ Kemmerich‚ dies‚ his
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Page 13 to 15 Thirteen-year-old Jonathan is daydreaming about the military. His brother is a soldier with General Washington and his cousin (not very long ago) joined a military unit. When will his father let him join? After all‚ he is thirteen. But his father was wounded by gunshot to the leg in a recent fight. He is having a very hard time getting around so Jonathan is needed at home. The bell in the town’s tavern just rang it is a call to arms. Jonathan eyes his father’s flintlock gun and touches
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S.I.W. (pg 137) (Self inflected wounds) This anycronym is not good in one’s report as a soldier would have wounded himself to avoid to go to battle meaning that a soldier was a coward. The qoute from Yeats is already indicating something. Poem is sectioned off the prologue is the setting then the action what actually happened and then a poetic approach ‚ owen in a way is making fun of those poets who showed their patroism and telling them that they are trying to hide the harsh reality behind
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Yale Harrison JR’s TEACHER NOTES Explain and speculate what the title of the novel is inferring about the Generals. A. The title is a pun or is having a go at the generals. Generals die in bed while the soldiers die on the front lines. Generals don’t fight. Instead they command soldiers from a safe distance behind the frontlines The title suggests that there is a total lack of respect for generals or for people in positions of power/ authority. If this happens in war then there is a breakdown
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was an English poet and soldier‚ one of the leading poets of the First World War. Many of his poems have been praised for their bleak realism and it is also the case that his poem‚ “Disabled”‚ is observational and written in the third person from his own direct observation and experience. “Disabled” is about war‚ violence and mutilation as well as society’s reaction to this. It was written around 1917 showing the horror of war and evoking feelings of pity towards the soldiers. In “Disabled”‚ Owen
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How does Bennett make effective use of dramatic methods‚ in pages 34-41‚ to raise pertinent issues in the History Boys? Alan Bennett uses a number of methods throughout the play in order to raise pertinent issues and fully convey his concerns‚ and I believe many of these are present within this extract; varying from his common language and structure techniques to the ever running themes of conflicting pedagogical philosophies‚ sinister pederast undertones and the drive for acceptance at Oxbridge
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