In Another Country Analysis

Throughout the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, and several other war texts, there are a number of themes that can be related to them all. In the book, the character named Paul Baumer writes, in first person, about his experience through war. He sees and feels so many things, but the most important one of all is the feeling he gets when he is with his comrades, his friends. In sight of this, Paul, and other characters, give all their loyalty to the people they are close to. In other specific war pieces, including the film War Horse and “Gregory,” a short story, the characters also experience this life giving idea of comradeship and loyalty. In war, a man’s loyalty to his comrades never alters.

In “A Mystery of Heroism” he gives the readers the perspective of what being in the war is like. Some people assume that being in the war means that they always have a plan,

Two northern boys in the novels, “Soldier’s Heart,” and “The Red Badge of Courage,” suffer through the journey and hardships, loss of loved ones, and war. The contrasts in these works are few, however the variances in stories minister support in helping each book to stand out, and separate from the other. The similarities between books are uncanny, so similar, in fact that throughout the duration of the novels differentiating the novels becomes increasingly problematic for the reader. Also, the similarities concerning the two books “Soldier’s Heart” and “The Red Badge of Courage” aid the reader in understanding the mind-set of a soldier during a war. The comparisons and differences of the

Even though the soldiers join the war as naive youths, the war rapidly changes them and they develop into young men. Surrounded by death, the boys are bound to foresee the fragility of their own lives and are stripped of the carelessness and brazenness of youth. The dreadful horrors around the boys bound them to consider a world that does not accommodate to their childish and simplistic view. They want to only see a separation between what is right and what is wrong, they instead find moral doubt. Where they had wanted to see order and meaning, they only found senselessness and disorder. Where they wanted to find heroism, they only found the selfish instinct of self-preservation. These realizations destroyed the innocence of the boys, maturing and thrusting them into their manhood.

O’Brien uses this as he writes his story of his mental, emotional, and moral changes he goes through. In the beginning he refers to himself as a hero with courage like the Lone Ranger. Next, he speaks of being afraid of death. “At the very center, was the raw fact of terror. I did not want to die. Not ever. But certainly not then, not there, not in a wrong war” (779). When he finally loses his battle and realizes he could not avoid going to war he wrote, “I passed through towns with familiar names, thought the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. I survived, but it’s not a happy ending. I was a coward. I went to war” (O’Brien

A vital part to Nick’s growth was his time in the war. While this is only shown through short vignettes, they convey a powerful story about the events that transpired and how they changed Nick so greatly. Some stories aren't shown to be about Nick, but can be presumed to show what the war did to those who fought in it. One story is about a war chef and his French comrade who got drunk before they reach the front (Hemingway 13). The front was a hellish place where many horrors were endured. In the heat of battle, men like Nick revert to prayer and religion as an act of desperation. Even though a promise was made to spread the word, Nick was ashamed for falling apart and chose to break the promise (Hemingway 67). This could be related

‘Break of Day’ is a young adult fiction novel written by Tony Palmer. ‘Break of Day’ is about a man named Murray Barrett who fought in Papua New Guinea during World War One and all of the problems left at his home in a country town of Australia. Palmer has shown examples of family secrets, bravery and death throughout the novel. Palmer shows through family secrets that they can help destroy or heal, through death that it’s something that people won’t always get used to and through bravery that it can be seen as both an act of bravery and cowardice.

Emotions and instincts are impossible to predict at any given moment. You simply cannot tell yourself to be strong and courageous and expect it to play out that way. Most civilians do not understand what causes cowardice and why soldiers cannot overcome it, “Yet cowardice, a subset of shame, is a moral category, and all such categories insofar as they constitute a piece in the great unsolved puzzle of what constitutes human nature, are worthy of a study in and of themselves” (Walsh, Chris). Tim O’Brien starts the novel listing all of the soldier’s items that they carried, but the audience has come to recognize that it is not the tangible, but the intangible things they truly weigh them down. When reading The Things They Carried it is important to look past the horrific scenarios of the war but rather notice the underlying problem throughout the story between a battle of courage and cowardice.

One of the main themes in the short story In Another Country is that bravery is not the same thing as courage. While bravery is the ability to ignore fear (or not to be afraid) in dangerous situations, courage concerns inner strength, endurance, and acceptance of things that cannot change. This difference is exemplified clearly in In Another Country; while the three soldiers from Milan are brave, the major is courageous. The author uses symbolism to create this distinction and emphasizes it using similes and the characterization of the major.

War forces young soldiers to grow up quickly. In Stephen Crane’s Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, Henry Fleming is no exception. He is faced with the hard reality of war and this forces him to readjust his romantic beliefs about war. Through the novel, the reader can trace the growth and development of Henry through these four stages: (1) romanticizing war and the heroic role each soldier plays, (2) facing the realities of war, (3) lying to himself to maintain his self-importance, and (4) realistic awareness of his abilities and place in life. Through Henry’s experiences in his path to self-discovery, he is strongly affected by events that help shape his ideology of war, death,

One can imagine that every country is different with their own set of beliefs. Chile and Kuwait are in total different parts of the world but they both have similarities. In Isabel Allende’s My Invented Country and Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home the authors focus on the road map of their childhood. Allende explains the basics of her culture, while Jarrar does too through the character of Nidali. Both women have seen and are aware that women do not have the same power as a male.

     In Hemingway’s collection of short stories, In Our Time, we follow a character by the name of Nick Adams. We are introduced to Nick in “Indian Camp” as a young boy, and follow him to adulthood in both Parts I and II of “Big Two-Hearted River”. Through this we see Nick develop and learn about some major facts of life. Nick is a character who changes through the effects of war on many different levels. Although Hemingway hardly mentions the war, he uses the stories to express different effects and emotions caused by the war.

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Studding abroad it has been a dream my entire life, I consider this a very good experience and a very challenge task because since I am not in mine own country I will not have family and friends around me. And if I have decided to study in a country that does not speak mine native language the challenge is even bigger because you I have to deal not only with a new culture and new people there is a different language. I need to dedicate more time and effort than a normal student, being a student with a second language requires that we read and paraphrase what we are reading or listening. Homework becomes double the work but as long as I am aware of all the issues I may encounter I know I will be able to pull it off. I will be in a disadvantage

Disillusionment plays an important part “In Another Country” because the Italian major realizes he won’t have the ability to recover from the war. He won’t be the same person as he was before the war. While among not being able to recover the same, his wife passes. Soldiers during World War I were always fighting, being brave, and honouring their country. The soldiers had a code to follow, which were those characteristics and