Azadeh's 'A Brief Encounter With The Enemy'?

To be engaged in war is to be engaged in an armed conflict. Death is an all too ordinary product of war. It is an unsolicited reward for many soldiers that are fighting for their country’s own fictitious freedom. For some of these men, the battlefield is a glimpse into hell, and for others, it is a means to heaven. Many people worry about what happens during war and what will become of their loved ones while they’re fighting, but few realize what happens to those soldiers once they come home. The short stories "Soldier's Home” by Ernest Hemingway and "Speaking of Courage” by Tim O'Brien explore the thematic after effects of war and how it impacts a young person's life. Young people who

To begin, the story starts out with a huge debate between the soldiers. One boy had heard a rumor that the regiment would be moving on to fight a battle the next day.

War is something that can change the very principles of a person, it can change a person and leave multiple effects that can last for their entire life. The sniper is fighting in a civil war where friends and family can turn into enemies at a moment's notice. The fight is between the Republicans and the Free Staters, the protagonist is a sniper for the Republicans. Throughout the story, we go into the state of mind of the main character and learn some ramifications that he gained in the war. The text, “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty shows us the physical and psychological results of war, that happens to people.

I read the novel titled Soldier Boys written by Dean Hughes. This book was published in 2001 and is about a couple of boys who wanted to fight in WWII and eventually got their opportunity after a lot of hard work and slowly working their ways up in ranking. This book is a historical fiction book.

Written by Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front is the tale of a young man by the name of Paul. Paul who is nineteen years old gathers several of his friends from school and together they voluntarily join the army fighting for the Axis alliance. Before they are sent off into actual battle, they are faced with the brutal training camp. Along with this they face the cruelty of the life of a soldier. This made them question the reason for which a soldier fights. They are told that they fight because they must be nationalists and must therefore be patriotic. But they began to understand that these are just clichés and are used to brainwash soldiers. Soon after they graduate they are sent into the fray of war. The premature idea of war being glorious and honourable is destroyed when they step into the gruesome actuality of war. They are forced to live in constant fear for their life. Kemmerich, a friend of Paul, gets injured and contracts gangrene. From this his leg is amputated to stop the infection from spreading. Sadly, the operation was done too late and Kemmerich is declared to be slowly dying. Paul and his friend visit Kemmerich is slowly dying, and Müller, another former classmate, overlooks Kemmerich’s horrible state and says that he wants Kemmerich’s boots for himself. Accustomed to life at war, Paul doesn’t consider Müller insensitive. Paul understands that Muller knows Kemmerich will no longer use his boots

The soldier hears a quiet whistle blowing in the distance but the sun hasn't risen. He hears people running and shouting “GOING OVER!”, before he knows it all the soldiers are all lining up against the wall of the trench and then he hears a voice shouting, but couldn't make it out what the voice was saying and then before he could even blink his eyes everyone suddenly started running over, all he can see is his friends getting mowed down like blades of grass by the enemy's machine guns. As he runs across, charring the enemy head on, he can't help but think that above the trench makes hell look like a picnic. As he gets to the enemy trench, silence falls across the war zone and then seconds later a gunshot breaks the silence, but the soldier is life less on the ground with the gun in his mouth. No one never knew what was in that trench to make him do what he did that day and no one

Fields of Fire, by James Webb, is a novel about the Marines who fought in Hoa Basin in 1969. The book is told through the prospective of the Men who were experiencing the fighting and hardships first hand, and it is the most authentic piece of military literature I have ever read. It starts out describing the background stories of the two most prominent characters, Snake, and Robert E. Lee Hodges, JR. After these introductions Webb goes on to describe the Marine’s first tastes of combat, with grit and violence of the jungle warfare that was Vietnam. Hodges and Snake met when Hodges took over as platoon commander of the platoon that Snake was a squad leader in. After all the fighting was done, the story didn 't have a

Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison is told by a twenty-year-old anonymous narrator, who reminds us that the war is neither a glamorous nor glorious affair. It’s a graphic and poignant story of a young man sent to fight on the Western Front to fight against the German army. The experience of warfare in trenches takes on distinct animation as readers identify with the predicament of the youthful soldiers. It’s written in a blunt documentary style. With its raw and powerful prose, the insanity and destructive brutality of war is shown so realistically that reader start to question the meaning of truth, heroism, God and Devil.

The next morning, groggily, John and his new friend woke up to the triumphant yells of generals. The grass was damp from the night before for it had rained a thunderous rain. John’s general, General Hartford, was a stern looking man and didn’t like goofing off at all. Every time a soldier peeped a word while marching he would hit them with the end of his sword and tell them to stop talking. John marched alongside his new friend and didn’t say a word. After hours of marching they took a break and ate a small lunch of an apple and very watered-down soup. Once John started his bowl of soup a large boy walked over. He was about the age of twenty-three and had a messed up smile and didn’t talk clearly. He yelled, “Gimme your soup or I’ll beat you

self. Luke has to deal with the reality of his mother’s death well in prison; he receives the news through a letter. What went through Luke’s head was a mystery but whatever it was it made him want to escape the prison. He tries to escape 3 times and during the third time, Dragline joins him; he later gets shot and is taken to the prison hospital instead of the regular hospital which was much closer because it was the Captains decision. In the end it didn’t show whether he lived, but his mother’s death had caused all this. Another thing that Luke had to face was also wanted to be free. Luke is locked up in the prison with a sentence of two years; he is forced to do labour in the heat during the weekdays. Psychologically humans do not like to be confined which Luke is, because of this he also tries to escape because he wants freedom, but fails. Chief Bromden, a protagonist/narrator of the story has to deal with being lost in the fog. “It’s rolling in thicker than I ever seen it before” (Kesey 133). He is in the mental state where he thinks that the ward uses fog machines on the patients, eventually later in the story he is freed from the fog. He is only freed once he became more active in the ward and when he analyzed McMurphy. McMurphy wants to be free from the ward. “It’s interesting to me that you bums didn’t tell me what a risk I was running,twisting her tail that way. Just because I don’t like her ain’t a sign

This book is about an 18 year old boy named Henry Fleming. He decides that he wants to enlist into the Union Army, in hopes of finding glory and fame in doing so. The army turned out to be pretty boring because all he and the rest of his troops are doing is sitting there, waiting for an enemy to approach them. When he engages in his first battle against the confederate soldiers he is overwhelmed with fear, due to the fact that it’s the first time he has had to fight. In the midst of the battle he tries to run away from the scene, eventually he runs right into the generals. The generals are at the back of the line giving orders to the troops. The troops stand their ground and outlast the confederate soldiers, winning the battle.

Luke is also a very religious man. He goes to church every single Sunday. His closest and only friend is named Paul Leboeuf. Paul is also the minister at the church Luke attends. Being a religious man, Luke feels guilty about moving on and finding someone new to love because it goes against the wedding vows he made to his wife. Being a faithful and moral man is another example of how Dubus created underlying problems in the story.

This sixth chapter in the Star Wars series is told in a third person omniscient perspective. It tells the facts and interprets events, feelings, and thoughts from each character throughout the story. The viewer gets to see the story from multiple perspectives. Primarily in the earlier chapters, the narration followed Luke, but in this chapter it follows his friends, like Han Solo and Chewbacca, in smaller subplot stories to give each character more

“An Episode of War” by Stephen Crane is a short story about a lieutenant in an unnamed war during the late 1890s being shot during an everyday routine. While it is not out of the ordinary to be shot during a war, a note sticks out: the gritty reality of war tends to glob soldiers of all ranks together to form a nameless mass which Crane emphasizes. The lieutenant has no name, the war has no name, the soldiers have no name, nothing. Everyone is a cog in the wheel and when one breaks, they are quickly replaced. The narrative is driven by the lieutenant’s actions to demonstrate Crane’s stylistic approach of American Realist.

Azfar Moin started the chapter the lord of conjunction talking about the style of muslim kingship. The Muslim kingship evolved in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and was in the memory of Timur. Timur, “A Barlas Turk of common birth, he rose from Central Asia to conquer territories in Anatolia, Syria, Iraq, Iran, India, and Russia, and was on his way to subjugate China when he died.” Timerlane, a cruel conqueror who created destruction on a continent hadn 't recovered from the Mongol invasion. Timur was honored as the charismatic “Lord of Conjunction” and a central object of admiration for later Muslim sovereigns. Timur was idolized for centuries as a messianic figure and appreciated widely both during his lifetime and for centuries afterwards, it is worth re-viewing and possibly challenging existing scholarship that appears to offer a simplistic portrayal of a Muslim ruler whose claims to messianic kingship inspired many others after him.