Ernest Hemingway's 'In Our Time': An Analysis

“Tomorrow When The War Began” by John Marsden, is a novel of survival, friendship, love and war. He uses many language techniques (e.g. simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron, irony, symbol, allusion etc.) to get across to the reader the importance of each of the themes discussed. He also uses these techniques to set the mood in each chapter and to help emphasise each major point in the novel. “We’ve learnt a lot and had to figure out what’s important- what matters, what really matters.”- Ellie

“In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded” (Classon). Everyone goes through hardships, however they are experienced disparately. In a narrative, an author chooses a point of view specific to emphasize certain aspects of their narrative. The two types of point of views employed in “The Wars,” “Mrs. Akbar,” and “Fronteras Americanas” are first person and third person omniscient, respectively. Third person omniscient point of view is an “all-knowing kind of narrator” (“Omniscient Narrator”) that has “full knowledge of the story’s events and of the motives and unspoken thoughts of various characters” (“Omniscient Narrator”). First person point of view is a type of narrative where the “protagonist relates their story” (“First Person”), using the pronoun ‘I’. Timothy Findley’s “The Wars” follows the life of a young man after the death of his sister. Remorseful that it occurred on his watch, he enlists in World War I in attempt to escape his grief. Written in third person omniscient point of view, the author not only confers with Robert Ross the protagonist, but many other characters and their inner turmoil all focused around the journey of war. Mariam Pirbhai’s “Mrs. Akbar” depicts the difficulties faced by an immigrant woman in keeping her family tied to their native roots. Also written in third person omniscient point of view, the author shows both the mothers and daughters outlooks. Guillermo Verdecchia’s “Fronteras Americanas” translating in

“Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket”, “Ambush”, and “Sniper” are three short stories that all seem to be different but also have similarities. Each story describes a short period of time in the main characters live that make a significant impact on them. Taking a close look at the literary elements of setting, theme, conflict, and characters show the similarities and differences between the three stories.

The glorified act of war is often staged in historical literature by idolizing the soldiers who partake in the event. Soldiers are made to seem intrepid, ruthless and muscular, each with a ceaseless desire to fight valiantly for their countries. Timothy Findley and Kurt Vonnegut discard this typical hero archetype in their anti-war novels by portraying the soldiers who fight in the war as the men they are, not as the templates of heroes they are expected to fit, in furtherance of strengthening their anti-war stances. Findley and Vonnegut illustrate their protagonists as a tragic hero and an anti-hero, respectively, in order to juxtapose the atrocities of war with the flawed humanness of man and to challenge the stereotypical image of a

Almost like in a manual for story writing, O’Brien starts out every part of this short story by giving away a supposedly important feature of a “true war story” and then giving a matching example to help the reader visualize his lesson.

Archetypal within The Wars Archetypal is known as recurring patterns in literature, provided in Timothy Findley’s novel The Wars. Timothy Findley was born in 1930, he was a phenomenal writer, and was a Canadian novelist and playwright The content exhibits the war that has been continuing for a considerable length of time, leaving a scar in history that continues rehashing itself. Many individuals across the world are fighting for: freedom, religious beliefs and mostly for their children’s future. In this text, Findley gives the readers a perspective on World War One and the effects it had throughout the text.

In this book, Tim O’brien reveals all his experiences in detail about the war; as well as stories about his fellow soldiers, and makes a true, but over the top about them. He explains how he feels through stories that are difficult to clearly identify as “true.” This book has a lot of themes, death and violence is one of the major themes.

“ How To Tell a True War Story” By O’Brien is a complex story that scrutinizes the complex correlation that exist between war experience and the way stories are being told. Through anecdotes, O’Brien substantiates that a writer contains the ability to form its readers beliefs and viewpoint. Finding a meaning for O’Brien’s story was practically easy because through his anecdotes I was able to openly examine what O’Brien was

This work documented the human experience in a light that I would not have seen it had I only read the books assigned to me in class. The themes in this book and how they were portrayed helped me to be able learn

Often in the years following a war the notion of warfare is warped by common conceptions or cliches so that it no longer resembles the realities that the soldiers experienced. However, Tim O’Brien uses his own personal experiences from Vietnam to create stories which exhibit the real situations that these soldiers faced. The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, demonstrates this unfiltered reality through multiple literary elements and the creation of fictional stories in order to portray the war accurately. Courage and valor are often associated with the idea of war and are often expected to be traits that all soldiers live by.

Through telling and retelling these people’s stories O’Brien (and any character doing the storytelling) is preserving and extending the people’s lives. Most of the stories and characters in this novel are made up; this much O’Brien admits to. Only through exaggerating and inventing stories, O’Brien argues, can the true sentiments of the stories and the people in them be conveyed. O’Brien admits that he “invented incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain” what it was like to go through the war (O’Brien, 107). Only through these inventions can we truly begin to understand who the characters are and how they were affected by the events that took place in the

In this essay, I will discuss how Tim O’Brien’s works “The Things They Carried” and “If I Die in a Combat Zone” reveal the individual human stories that are lost in war. In “The Things They Carried” O’Brien reveals the war stories of Alpha Company and shows how human each soldier is. In “If I Die in a Combat Zone” O’Brien tells his story with clarity, little of the dreamlike quality of “Things They Carried” is in this earlier work, which uses more blunt language that doesn’t hold back. In “If I Die” O’Brien reveals his own personal journey through war and what he experienced. O’Brien’s works prove a point that men, humans fight wars, not ideas. Phil Klay’s novel “Redeployment” is another novel that attempts to humanize soldiers in war. “Redeployment” is an anthology series, each chapter attempts to let us in the head of a new character – set in Afghanistan or in the United States – that is struggling with the current troubles of war. With the help of Phil Klay’s novel I will show how O’Brien’s works illustrate and highlight each story that make a war.

The author writes the story in a very interesting way. The way that there are only a few descriptions scattered about and that it focuses on dialogue is what allows us to figure out what the characters are speaking about and to find the intentions behind their words. The subject of this short narrative stands out boldly. Though it was written in

Hemingway uses short, harsh sentences in the excerpt from In Our Time in order to enhance the tone of finality of the six ministers’ death. The author introduces the paragraph with the fact that “they shot the six ministers” and concludes the paragraph with the same action of “fire[ing] the first volley.” The “bookends” of action included at both the beginning and the end contribute to the idea that there is absolutely no way for the ministers to escape their fate. Their deaths are final; they are shot and none of the setting described in the middle of the paragraph can change that fact. In fact, the description of the “wet dead leaves,” the “pools of water,” and the brief sentence “it rained hard” seem to support that fatal fixedness. The

Study sites reveal that believing in God during the hardest times is a main theme of the book. Along with this theme, study websites also suggest the importance of survival. One important theme that is apparent in the novel is that in the face of death, humans can and will do anything to survive. Another theme that is stressed in this novel is that anything can be overcome if you have the will and determination to survive.