Diary Of Admiral Richard Byrd Analysis

An important message that Scott O’Dell produced frequently throughout the novel, Island of the Blue Dolphins was the importance of resilience. Resiliency is the ability to face and overcome mental and physical difficulties and challenges. In the novel, the main character, Karana showed this virtue often throughout the text as she survived, isolated on a deserted island for over fifteen years. In this essay I will describe the significance of resilience and how

Ernest Miller Hemingway is known for his unique style and theories of writing, especially the iceberg theory. In the Death of the Afternoon, Hemingway says that “The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.” (92) Simple words, vivid images, rich emotions and deep thoughts are the four basic elements of the iceberg theory. Talk about how these stories illustrate four elements of theory. In both short stories, Hemingway describes scenery and characters with simple words directly to give readers a vivid image. Under this sketch, readers can know characters’ emotion and get the theme through their imagination and analysis.

The protagonist’s struggle to decipher what the reality of his situation is a particular conflict in the source. The central character often makes statements about how much faith he has in his boat. One clear example

Upon returning home the soldiers meet a field of new troubles that come with acclimation to society after fighting. Many soldiers come home with skills that are not applicable to their lives and generally a much deeper understanding of what they believe the world consists of. This leads to much disillusion with the world they come back to. In both Ernest Hemingway and Tim O’Brien’s stories, soldiers meet with disillusionment and disconnect from society. The soldiers react in different ways to this feeling; the authors use diction, sentence structure, and figurative language to demonstrate their troubles with acclimation.

“The Swimmer,” a short fiction by John Cheever, presents a theme to the reader about the unavoidable changes of life. The story focuses on the round character by the name of Neddy Merrill who is in extreme denial about the reality of his life. He has lost his youth, wealth, and family yet only at the end of the story does he develop the most by experiencing a glimpse of realization on all that he has indeed lost. In the short story “The Swimmer,” John Cheever uses point of view, setting and symbolism to show the value of true relationships and the moments of life that are taken for granted.

Most soldier’s current and past have seen how returning home is problematic and challenging. Using biographical and psychological critical reading strategies to analyze “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway, was the purpose of writing the text to help him and other soldiers learn how to cope with life after wartime.

O 'Brien illustrates to us the necessity for each man to be connected to their old life, telling a story of Mark Fossie flying in his girlfriend to ease his loneliness (104-05). Each soldier found himself facing insurmountable barriers throughout the war, and these small effects and coping mechanisms were often the only necessity that would give them reason to return home again. They needed personal methods of coping with the war, and this primeval survival was the only way to remain a man.

Notwithstanding their partner’s contempt of reading and writing, both the father in “The Boat,” and the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” continue to search for reprieve through their respective books and diary.

Sleep is the most highly thought of means of recreation for a soldier (45). This ultimately represents a yearning for the simplicity of the pre-modern. The complacency that one was birthed into in previous centuries is, in the military, presented as conscious lifestyle choice. On the matter of preference of placement within the military structure, Rico’s recruitment officer speaks dismissively of a “that” “being what you think would make you happy.” (28). The allure of the military lifestyle is not having to be concerned with one’s own happiness. Happiness is portioned out according to the decisions of men like Rico’s placement officer whom “you could relax and take it easy with” (32). That this easiness and happiness is built upon faith in a Chinese Legalism and a utilitarian calculus is un-concerning to Rico. That same placement officer has quotas and his first duty is to those quotas, people will suffer because of that. Similarly, the method through which complexity and moral ambiguity is avoided has caused suffering. The suffering of the Temporary Third Lieutenant on the HMS Chesapeake (154) is the price paid for a rigid and easy to understand law of behavior that expects no field philosophizing. Rico as emblematic of the military man in general, does not what to think, does not want to know, and does not want to ask. This shown to not be as we would expect a discipline required of him but instead a favor granted

He writes about the coping mechanisms the soldiers used to help them handle the war. O’Brien uses the literary elements of coping mechanisms, such as escapism through fantasizing and escapism through substance abuse, laughter and humor, and talking, as well as, repetition and imagery, to develop author’s purpose of describing and informing, O’Brien does this, so the audience knows that war was very difficult for the soldier’s and changed their lives.

Many men, women and children died on this brutal two-month trip. Starvation, illness, floggings and men jumping overboard into the seas took the lives of some around me. It was hard to fathom the horrible treatment the crew inflicted upon all of the men, women, and children; how they treated us

Have you ever experienced being alone? Everyone has, or likely will, at some point in their life. But how about for 94 days, carrying a backpack that weighs nearly as much as you do containing all you have to survive off, by foot? Or what about 227 days, floating through the ocean on a tipsy life boat, with limited supplies, little to no sense of direction, and a huge Bengal tiger to watch out for? Probably not. Both of these scenarios involve extreme human conditions. On the theme of a person’s conditions both challenging and shaping who they are, there are two novels that stand out in the exploration of this topic, and they are Life of Pi and Wild By Cheryl Strayed.

Carter appeals to the reader's sense of understanding with personal anecdote. He recalls his visit to the Refuge saying, “One of the most unforgettable and humbling experiences of our lives occurred on the coastal plain,”. This immediately makes the audience aware of Carter’s deep feelings for the Refuge. They can see that it has left a lasting impression on him. It also makes him a more credible speaker because it shows that he has knowledge on this topic. To further entice the reader he mentions, “In a matter of minutes, the sweep of tundra before us became flooded with life,with the sounds of grunting animals and clicking hooves filling the air,”. Adding these details envelops the audience in senses making it seem like they have experienced

Within this short story, questions of an existential variety are raised; Philip K. Dick ponders existence, reality, and what is means to be a human being. Reality, to my knowledge, is all that exist in the plane of the comprehensible. It’s contrast being all that is imaginary, delusional, abstract or unreal. In the story, the character Victor Kemmings is to live within the confines of his mind for ten years, after a malfunction within his cryogenic sleep chamber. The ship, his only companion, proposes that to retain his sanity he will lives through his memories. In these ten years, Victor bounces between the life he once had with first wife Martine and his childhood. What accompanies him is loneliness, fear, guilt, and a whole slew of neuroses.

In the early morning hours of April 15, 1912 over two thousand crew and passengers were awoken to the ghastly scraping of ice upon the Titanic’s hull. As the dying ship slowly descended beneath the waves and into the deep cold waters of the North Atlantic, the culprit of this gruesome scene was apparent. This was the work of the gigantic mountain of ice protruding from the dark waters. But ultimately what caused the destruction of the “Unsinkable Ship” and took the lives of fifteen hundred innocent souls was not the formidable ice face that arose from the freezing waters, but instead the unseen structure twice its size that lurked beneath the surface. Ernest Hemingway does the same thing to his readers that the iceberg did to the titanic. In Hemingway’s writing it is undeniably what lies beneath the surface, what remains unsaid, that truly shakes the reader to their core.