Compare And Contrast Soldiers Home And Good People

In “A Journey Taken with my Son,” Myrna Bein explains the difficult truths she has endured since Charles, her son, returned home from Iraq injured. Charles is only twenty-six years old, and his mother understands the difficulties he will undergo in the future. Charles lost

Krebs “felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it. His town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by actualities.” Krebs own family lacks support for his yearning to talk to someone about what he has done and gone through. “She [Krebs’ mother] often came in when he was in bed and asked him to tell her about the war, but her attention always wandered. His father was non-committal.” It is obvious why Krebs decided to sleep all day and lock himself in his room, his town and his family have locked him in there with nothing but his thoughts. Krebs cannot leave the room because he is unable to let out all that he carries from the war.

In the end, the son died but the tin soldiers never did. The mother refuses to cash the death check from the US governments, “The uncashed death check from uncle sam marks a passage in the bible on the dresser,”. The reason she does not want to cash the check is because if she does, she will actually come to terms with the death of her son and she doesn’t want to believe it. She says “ Mistakes, Mistakes...They killed his daddy. & Janet, she & her three children by three different men,.” The war has killed her husband and the war, her son’s lover has already moved on from him and didn’t even bother to wait a while to see if he was actually alive. His lover came to terms with his death and decided to move on from him. The mother hopes that her son is strong enough to his lover to get lost when he comes home. We know as a reader that when soldiers come back from war, they sometimes are the same when they left. Before her son died, he was given a silver star medal, which is the highest medal a soldier can get, meaning he did everything he could protect his fellow soldiers and his country but his mother could not protect him from dying. At the end of the

In “Soldier’s Home” the story revolves around the fact that going to war changed Harold Krebs. When he left going overseas he was a young

In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Soldier’s Home”, Krebs, a soldier, returns to his hometown from fighting in World War I. As indicated throughout the story, “home” for Krebs is not unlike the war front: confusing, complicated, and restless. Hemingway uses the setting in Kansas, during World War I, to convey Krebs post-war life in comparison to his pre-war.

Imagine coming back home after being away for three years and trying to adapt to a new environment. It's almost like not being able to sleep in a hotel bed because you are used to your one at home. For Krebs’ it is the other way around. In the short story “Soldier's Home” by author Ernest Hemingway, Harold Krebs the main character is having trouble getting used to his hometown and the life it follows.. He has been at war for several years and is trying to get used to his home. Krebs joined the marines and went to war in 1917 and came back to the United States in 1919. The war ended in 1918 and two other kids from his town came back a year earlier than him. Because of this no one one wanted to hear any war stories and it was hard for Krebs. One of the most important themes that is represented throughout the story is adaptation. Krebs has to adapt to his home back in Oklahoma after fighting in the war for years. In the course of the short story, “Soldier’s Home”, Ernest Hemingway uses literary elements of setting and conflict to represent one of the themes, adaptation.

Even his mother, despite her wanting him to talk about the war by asking questions, never really pays attention. As a result he resorts to lying about his experience, forcing Krebs to isolate himself and oppose discussing what he had needed to discuss and get off his chest.

He needed to be heard by the others in his town, but “His town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by actualities” (Hemingway 133) that they did not want to listen to Krebs stories. The community did not care what Krebs was thinking in his mind, or how he was feeling. Krebs had no choice but to tell small lies about the war because the community could not capture what actually happened during the war. Krebs stories would have too much information that the people were unprepared to listen or know about. Perhaps he did not want to discuss the war with others because he felt guilty of all the massacres he has witness in the

Prior to the war, his dad did not trust him enough to be able to take the car out as he pleased. Even after Krebs returned home, his father seemed to hold a rather absent presence in his life, in fact, he is not even present at any point throughout the story. The only time his father is brought up in discussion, is when Krebs mother informs him that she and Krebs father had discussed finally letting him use the family car. Even when his mother reveals that it had been his father’s idea, Krebs replied “I’ll bet you made him” (136). This line is an unmistakable clue which shows the true feelings Krebs has towards his father, whom he clearly has no type of faith in. Although Krebs mother has an active role in his life, his relationship with her does not seem to be that much better than his relationship with his father. When she asked if he loved her, he quickly responded “No”(137), which sent her straight into tears. This was probably not always the truth

Several different readers pointed out that Krebs is having difficulty because he no longer shares a common interest with the people in his hometown. Response 12 in "Reader Responses to Soldier's Home" suggest that Krebs is struggling "to fit in after coming back from war" and response 14 in "Reader Responses to Soldier's Home" points out that Krebs "seems to feel an outcast". What I see is Krebs has just spent two years of his life in battle, something he never imagined he would be involved in, something that most people could never imagine. Upon his arrival to his hometown,

In a fiction story, characters sometimes experience major life conflicts that cause them to disconnect from society. Emily Grierson from “A Rose for Emily” By William Faulkner and Harold Krebs from “A Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway both experience a mix of life issues that cause them internal conflicts resulting in their disconnection from normal society. These two characters share similar conflicts in their love life, family influences, and past conflicts. Krebs and Emily both share static qualities in their respective stories because neither of them change personality characteristics. Krebs experiences a different type of conflict with his return from war while Emily also has expectations to meet, stemming from her heritage in the town

In Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “Soldier’s Home”, a young man named Krebs is unable to relate to his mother and home life after he returned from the First World War. After Krebs saw death and destruction in the wars most bloody battles, he returns home where his parents try to get him back to his normal routines. His view of the world has changed drastically since the war. He no longer feels love in his heart and cannot lie to his mother when she asks if he loves her. One of the famous lines Hemingway wrote, “Krebs looked at the bacon fat hardening on his plate.” Like bacon his heart has been hardened by what he had seen in World War I and he knew he must get far away from his parents to be able to get his life back

When people think of the military, they often think about the time they spend over in another country, hoping they make it back alive. No one has ever considered the possibility that they may have died inside. Soldiers are reborn through war, often seeing through the eyes of someone else. In “Soldier’s home” by Ernest Hemingway, the author illustrates how a person who has been through war can change dramatically if enough time has passed. This story tells of a man named Harold (nick name: Krebs) who joined the marines and has finally come back after two years. Krebs is a lost man who feels it’s too complicated to adjust to the normal way of living and is pressured by his parents.

Your key challenge in a leadership position is taking care of the Soldiers entrusted to your care. Soldiers are our nation’s most important military asset. The Leader who sends the message that Soldiers don’t really matter will generally not be as successful in the long-run as the Leader who is genuinely serious about taking care of his/her Soldiers.

What is a soldier? What makes a good soldier? Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary defines a soldier as one who “engages in military service”, a “skilled warrior”, and a “militant leader or follower”. The characteristics of a soldier vary in the different military branches but ultimately a soldier is loyal to his or her country, willing to fight and die. In an article by B.R. Burg, the author states “The complete officer must be the complete man, they believed, and to measure up each had to possess an amalgam of qualities that included patriotism, courage, honor, loyalty, absolute honesty, and elevated standards of morality” (439). The epitomes of a good soldier are characters such as Sergeant Elias (Platoon), Captain John Miller