Compare How Each Writer Makes You Feel Sympathy for the Main Characters in Each Text: ‘Out, Out –’ by Robert Frost and the Last Night by Sebastian Faulks

In ‘Disabled’, Wilfred Owen a war veteran tells the story of a young soldier who returns from war and realizes how dissimilar his old life is to his new one where he is disabled both mentally and physically despite the fact that his mind may seem unaffected by past traumas the reader will begin to understand the subtle hurts that have slowly damaged him. In contrast, the story of ‘Out, out-‘ is of a boy completing his everyday chores, sawing wood, in the backdrop of the Vermont mountains. He accidentally cuts his hand off and he succumbs to death despite a doctor’s aid.

The tranquil sensory imagery of “sweet scented stuff when the breeze drew across it” allows the reader to feel relaxed but then it’s immediately changed with the shocking encounter between the child and the saw when “neither refused the meeting.” Moreover, the way the boy reacted to the injury was quite unimaginable considering he’s only a “boy” but he gave a “rueful laugh”. These are all examples of contrast between the passive setting and the sudden change of horrific events, bring out

The boy is very warm-hearted and appears to struggle to understand that danger could occur at any moment, whilst his father knows a lot more about what some people, “the bad guys”, do in order to survive. It could be seen that the child is very naive and therefore trusts others more than his father. However his trust in others teaches his father a valuable lesson; that not everyone is a “bad guy”. For instance when the pair come across Ely, the father is wary about him but his son is adamant that they give him a tin of food. This shows to readers that the boy has faith unlike his father. Another example is when the son sees the little boy; he begs his father to go back and help him and asks if he can go with them. I believe that he wants to help others as

The prominence of a few themes - amputation, fate and death - create the catharsis required in a tragedy, mainly incidents which “arousing] pity and fear,” (definition). The repetition of these eerie and morbid themes keep them at the forefront of a reader’s mind, and put them in an uneasy emotional state, leading to a sense of catharsis at the end of the long, marathon novel. One main motif through the novel is that of amputation, and armlessness, which come to symbolize loss, helplessness, and the way in which sometimes one’s hands are bound, at the will of something greater. For example, after Owen accidentally kills John’s mother, he borrows John’s stuffed armadillo, a prized playing toy, and returns it without its claws, rendering it “USELESS TO JohN QUOTE,” which Owen means to signify “QUOTE ABOUT IM AM GODS MESSENGER.” This theme is touched upon many more times, and becomes somewhat of an obsession for Owen, who repeatedly removes or adds arms to female figures, including John’s deceased mother’s dressmaker’s dummy, a large catholic stature of a saint, which he desecrates. In irony, or perhaps a fate Owen had foreseen, the novel concludes with Owen losing his arms, protecting a group of Vietnamese children, in his last act of heroism. In addition to the theme of amputation, the theme of fate, and predestiny from God, is woven throughout, particularly perpetuated by Owen, who sees himself as God’s instrument. Owen consistently reminds John of the certainty of fate, and is angered when John does not share his blind faith. Owen believed “there were no accidents; there was a reason for that baseball - just as there was a reason for Owen being small, and a reason for his voice. In Owen's opinion, he had INTERRUPTED AN ANGEL, he had DISTURBED AN ANGEL AT WORK, he had UPSET THE SCHEME OF THINGS (page 102).” Is it Owen’s blind

Throughout the novel and connection, specific diction is used to express the hatred the Germans felt towards the Jewish during the Holocaust. In the connection “A Spring Morning”, the author uses words such as: “cruel”, “torment” and “murder” to show how the humiliation and fear within the Jews. Each of these words demonstrates a sense of inhumane acts of terror, for example, to be cruel to someone/ something means to be unnecessarily mean or evil. Fink also portrays the Jews as becoming dehumanized emotionally. The Jewish are “terrified” and in “despair” of the German officers and do not know what will become of themselves once they are taken to the camps. The Germans have the Jewish detained and frightened, like caged animals, making them feel more animalistic than human.

Overall they both share a theme of expressing feelings and speaking truthfully. Neither characters held anything back and just let their emotions

written. The author is showing how little people care about the babies themselves in both of

In conclusion, elie took us on a trip thru his life in the holocaust thru his book “Night”. He creates a mournful tone in order to tell his audience what happened to him in the concentration camp and to warm them to leave

This occurs when the jews are being transported to the camps. The author uses descriptive language to show the cruelty of the S.S. officers. This is significant because this is the moment when the jews realize the severity of the situation.

The characters’ lost opportunities are shown in both poems, which makes their situation more of an injustice. It is discussed more in Disabled with flashes to past and present, generally alternating in a regular pattern. By juxtaposing the past and the present, he emphasises both of them. This makes the past seem more perfect and the present seem even worse, thus making the reader sympathise with the character more. For example, in the third stanza he says that there was an artist silly for his face and then, in the same stanza, he says that he has now lost his colour. This contrasts how handsome he was to now when he no longer fits the ideals of beauty, as both of the phrases are in the same syndetic field they are compared to each other. Colour is a metaphor for life/youth, as it makes the reader imagine rosy-cheeked children. This shows that he has lost his youth much like everything else was taken away from him by the war. This blood imagery links to death in both not only showing physical loss but loss of life (or life as he knew it in Disabled) much like everything else was taken away from him by the war. This is similar to how in Out, Out-; Frost describes the boy trying to keep his life from spilling. He uses life as a metaphor for the blood.

The boy and the father have strong morals demonstrating a high level of authenticity, especially in a world where morality is extremely uncommon. To be ‘authentic’ means to genuinely be yourself. Although, as presented by Existentialism, one cannot be their true self until one has defined themselves. First, one must create their authentic selves, then they must live according to that (Varga). The father and the boy have strong principles to do what is right, even when their fellow survivors have completely abandoned morality altogether. At times, the father struggles with following said principles, however, he then justifies his actions which are purely for the safety of his son. This depicts that the father will do anything and everything to assure that the boy lives. The father expresses that “He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke” (5). When a man holds a knife to the son's neck, the father does not hesitate to kill him. Although this is

Thesis: Death is the main theme of both short stories and both authors portrayed this dark and dreary idea as a game the characters are playing.

Throughout the two short fictions, “Son of the Wolfman” by Michael Chabon and “The Red Bow” by George Saunders, we discover and more or less travel through tragedies in the main characters’ lives with them. Both tragedies about children, but contrasting in that one results in the death of a child, while the other is a birth. There are many internal and external conflicts within both stories in which they share multiple comparisons and contrasts. Many of these conflicts made me develop judgments about both characters and the choices they made throughout the fiction. While reading, I developed many perceptions about each character and each story; some with which could be obvious and some that have a more personal origin.

The two main characters in this film or story can represent pain and suffering. Usually contrasting each other, these two fit well together since they are very alike meaning this could be why these two people are placed together as a couple, like a jigsaw. In this, we are taught just how amazing something can be to build and how much work you put into it, but, on the other hand how something can be so easily destroyed and how it can fall down to your feet within a couple of moments. Not many people come to realize this until it 's too late, but these two obviously know before the time comes. Maybe that 's what makes this so emotional to the readers. Unsurprisingly for a novel about kids dying of cancer,

One way in which Disabled and Out, Out compare in the atmosphere is through their use of pity to evoke extreme emotions. Owen creates pity for the narrator through the strong contrast between his life before the war and after it.We can see that pathetic fallacy is used throughout when describing the post-war society, with words such as “dark”, “ghastly” and “solemn” used to emphasise the narrator’s internal feelings, which is evident by how the entire poem is essentially an internal monologue, which is often synonymous with internal darkness and a conflicting mind. Owen also uses the idea of isolation to create pity, by repeating phrases such as “why don’t they come” to emphasise loneliness. Owen also refers to the narrator’s lack of female attention as to evoke pity, especially when his disability is referred to as a “queer disease”. Frost also uses pity to evoke emotion throughout his poem. We can see this clearly when he writes “Call it a day, I wish they might have said.” This short sentence is foreboding and creates a sense that the latter lines will evoke pity and suffering upon the boy. The tragedy of the situation also evokes pity, especially as his condition rapidly worsens, with him