Across the Universe Army Draft Scene Close Analysis

To someone just picking up this book, this scene would simply look like some poor soldiers developing a temporary and innocent coping mechanism to deal with Death as they face him head on. But

Since Max is no longer able to be in the service he is sent home to the United States. Soldiers take Max to the funeral of Kyle; Max shoots forward stops in front of Kyle’s casket raises himself to touch his nose on the flag on top of Kyle’s coffin, he knew right then, Max drops to the floor, spins in a circle, curls into a ball and just lays there. The symbol of this book is based around the Unites States Marine Corps (Left side, Middle picture or the right side, Middle Picture).

Everyday men and women die in the most brutal way possible away from their family either killed from gun shots or landmines and they do come back. But in caskets, as images like these emphasize the destruction of war and these snaps just show the side effects of humankind's worse anger being shown. In the Article “The Stranger in the Photo Is Me”, Donald M. Murray expresses how harsh it really was in the war and how it changed himself forever and not in a good way. Not to mention, that he describes the way he felt ready to go to war, maybe even excited, but he wishes that horror on no one “I would not wish for a child or grandchild of mine to undergo the blood test of war” as the sacrifice these men and women go through is undeniably tremendous

His replica of the small details in his life, assist to highlight the tremendous changes he undergoes to become a child soldier. Here the detailed descriptions of loading the guns, attacking others, and the unending cycle of killing and death are interspersed with bland scenarios about his internal musings. Instead of being able to consider his ambitions of performing in a local talent quest, he is traumatized by the nightmares or flashbacks of being a ‘green snake’, the most effective killing machine he once was.

Some of the soldiers were such cowards that they injured themselves just to be taken away in a helicopter and extracted from the war scene. The soldiers “spoke bitterly about guys who had found release by shooting off their own toes or fingers. Pussies, they’d say. Candy-asses” (22). However, deep down inside, the soldiers who did all the mocking “imagined the quick, sweet pain, then the evacuation to Japan, then a hospital with warm beds and cute geisha nurses” (22). The soldiers even dreamt at night about freedom birds. The men were flying on a “real bird, a big sleek silver bird with feathers and talons and high screeching… The weights fell off; there was nothing to bear” (22). The soldiers did not want to be at war, they imagined to themselves “It’s (the war) over, I’m gone!—they were naked, they were light and free” (22).

In evaluating the physical objects each soldier carried, the narrator provided insight into the mind state of the soldiers. It’s also plain in the text which provides this same insight. The men

In late '65, the Beatles released their second film, shot across the globe, which featured several new songs and first exposed them to East Indian music. It is...

Through the soldiers’ experiences, the narrator shows only the dark side of human nature. Discuss.

The story focuses on the emotions of the soldiers and describes how they endured extreme emotional torture during their time at war. All of them taken away from their homes and being thrown into a terrorizing unfamiliar area then given a gun and being told to fight most of them being young and having no combat experience. Tim O’Brien explains the amount of emotional stress each man carried “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing-these were intangibles, but intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight” (89). He describes how their fear affected even what supplies they brought with them from the amount of ammunition, to pocket knives, and even food. One of the soldiers in the story, Ted Lavender carried tranquilizers with him because he was scared of the physical pain he might endure. “Depending on numerous factors, such as topography and psychology, the riflemen carried anywhere from 12 to 20 magazines” (82). All the men struggled through

Deceased philosopher Bertrand Russell once said, “War does not determine who is right- only who is left”. Those left are the soldiers of the 1-502nd, specifically Bravo Company 1st plt, and the Janabi family and to a greater extent, the ever-changing global world we all live in today. The tragic events that conspired in a small Iraqi village became a microcosm of how leadership failures at every level shaped the actions of a few soldiers who committed atrocious acts. One can also see how a high operational tempo, along with prolonged violence and death, has on a person’s psyche. It is the ugly side of war that the average American citizen may not want to hear or talk about. For a soldier, it is inevitably what they train their

Indeed, the soldiers are dehumanised to the point that they are considered property, “It certainly is not your leg! […]. That leg belongs to the U.S. government. It’s no different than a gear or a bed pan”. Yossarian is reduced to the equivalent of a “bedpan”, the lowest of the low, a humiliating comparison. Such an allusion to a vulgar object demonstrates the impersonality and callous inhumanity of war, where courage, bravery and humans themselves account for little. Yossarian here is illustrated as a mere production unit, a ‘worker’. Marxist critics argue that capitalism, which dominates US politics, turns peoples into things, it reifies them. In Marxist terms, such a capitalist mode of production generates a materialistic view of the world, in which ultimately all of us function as objects and become alienated from ourselves.

The “Lost Battalion” film was a great film about World War One. It showed a lot about the horrors of the war. It also brilliantly depicted the reality of the war.

Soldiers at war have to deal with many different types of societal pressures and mental stress along with the fact that they are in a war zone. As members of the military, there are people that support you and what you are doing, and some that do not support it. O’Brien uses metaphors of weight being “carried”. He uses descriptions of the actual equipment that they have to carry to perform their specific job, along with the emotional stresses that weigh a person down, grinding away at their mental strength day in and day out. O’Brien makes lists letting the reader know that each character has an immense load of equipment to carry with them. These lists really connect the

In the start of the scene the we see an unidentified male suspiciously hiding who is setting a timer for a bomb, the camera the pans on to the left were a couple is walking by and turns to an alley away from the frame. Then swiftly the unknown man runs the bomb in trunk the camera follows and we can see the shaking of the camera suggesting the pov shot you get from hand held cameras Just as the man is setting the bomb there is a non-diegetic mixed with a Latin sensation. At this point I was quite impressed because the scene camera kept on rolling realizing the camera is on a crane, because the tilt, pan, and tracking shot are standard movements, those movements are not something a crane is usually capable of doing. As camera then bounds into the sky and begins to glide slowly and serenely above the kane and lonely streets the car disappears behind the store alley. The camera is blocked, but moves at the same speed the car is behind the building. We hear the radio turn on the car the sounds it expels giving an American twang. Another reason to adore the scene is the world it inhabits. As the camera goes back to ground level it stays at a steady pace following the car, which is anticipating the action. We can see the architecture as the car the couple are in moves by the street, making the viewers see the old lifestyle and how people went on about their day. What we can see is the

The scene starts with an over the shoulder establishing shot of the town that Kiki will be staying in, this is done to give the audience an idea about the size of the place and also allows us to see the town from Kiki’s perspective - imposing but exciting.