Frighten and confused, John William De Forest, introduces his live as a Union Army soldier during the time era of the American Civil War. William De Forest book is divided into two parts, the first chapters are more focused on himself as a soldier and the life of the other soldiers and the other half of the book is focused more in the services of the Bureau. A Volunteer’s Adventure by John William De Forest is more of a war diary rather than a novel and the author really does make a tremendous job explaining and painting a realistic picture of how he was feeling during his time serving as a soldier. John William De Forest, was born on Seymour, Connecticut (now called Humphreys Ville) in 1826. Even though, his father was a wealthy merchant and …show more content…
However, this research contains a full and thorough explanation of three of these literary device, which in this case are reconstruction of events and scenes, the use of actual names and personal names and the use of figure speech and images used in his …show more content…
For example, in chapter 4 named “The First Time Under Fire”, The author start by introducing the names of the battalion in which they are fighting with. It consisted of five battalion, the seventy-fifth New York, Eighth New Hampshire, Twelfth and Thirteenth Connecticut and First Louisiana infantry. In addition, he also adds that there are commander and lieutenants such as Godfrey Weitzel, which in here he is also using the literary device of including the actual name of the person, but that device would be discuss later on in this research. As he continues through this chapter, John William De Forest, tries to make the scenes as real as possible for the readers, as he continues. As the chapter progresses, he makes the readers understand that there were some internal conflicts between the brigades, later on, the author says that, they were marching towards the enemy, “We made an easy march of twelve or fifteen miles without being disturbed by the enemy.” Here the author make the reader understand the difficult condition that the soldiers already are and this is before they even encounter the enemy. He also adds “The men, weak as yet from the summer’s heat and quite unaccustomed to field service, complained of the weight of their knapsacks and straggled woefully.” This line makes the reader paint a picture about the soldiers and its adventures, later he explains that he is scare
In the war for the American independence, the life of a continental soldier was very rough as depicted in the book by Martin. Some of the soldiers of the army served relatively only a short
The woods runner by Gary Paulsen was written to show some reality of the Revolutionary War. The story is of a young thirteen year old boy named Samuel, whose life changes in an instant. All caused from this great war. He didn’t even war was happening until a few days before it impacted his little settlement. The settlement is in Pennsylvania on the edge of a forest. Samuel loves the forest and finds pride in being a great hunter for his settlement. While out hunting Samuel can see that something is wrong when he sees smoke coming from home. When Samuel returns home he finds nothing but death and destruction. Houses burnt, bodies everywhere. It seems to Samuel his parents have been taken prisoner, so he decides he is going to be the one to rescue
This book, unlike its predecessor, begins in the thick of things. There is no tearful farewell from the homeland, there is, in fact quite the opposite. While Harrison’s men head toward the harbour that will bring them away from home, McDougall’s men are heading toward a harbour that will lead to their enemy, which they will heroically engage in mortal combat. This heroism is shown exquisitely in “Private Jones’s martyrdom.” (Mason, 95).
Connecticut at a young age, yet, he did not have a formal education. His parents were William and
Walter Dean Myers uses many military terms in this novel. When you hear words such as squad, MRE, or Kevlar you know that the war is real and is a serious matter. This creates a serious mood throughout the book because you feel like you are listening to a veteran of war share his story from
After reading this excerpt from “Under the Feet of Jesus”, the reader can better understand how a protagonist’s character can develop throughout a text. At first, Estrella’s character can be described as immature and curious. However, towards the end of the text, Estrella’s character can be described as humble and understanding. This writer conveys this change in character using literary devices. Moreover, these devices include selection of detail, figurative language, and tone.
The book takes a twist not only is he not alone with the forest he finds a dog that the Germans used to hunt the Americans With His dead and frozen owner. Tshe book is about the bond he must make between the dog and him and to find his friends who were taken prisoner by SS soldiers, and
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.
Lazarillo de Tormes is a famous work of Spanish literature published anonymously. The novel is written in the first person. Lazarillo de Tormes is known as a picaresque novel in that the novel is written about a character of the lower-class instead of a hero or upper-class character. The novel has several themes, but the theme that is constant throughout the novel is appearance versus reality. A rhetorical device is a use of language that is intended to have an effect on its audience. The author utilizes several rhetorical devices in the novel which add emphasis to the story. For the purposes of this paper, the following rhetorical devices are analyzed: satire, simile, hyperbole, double entendre and parody. The novel, which was banned by the Spanish Crown during the time of the Spanish inquisition, is the story of the birth and life Lazarillo as he serves various masters and his struggle for survival. His struggle is real. Many of the rhetorical devices serve to add humor to the novel as well.
For the first two weeks of Mr. Rosenberg’s leave we read a book called “Backwards and Forwards” by David Ball which was a guide to help us understand both “theater and literature complements”. It was a way for us to comprehend traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts. The book used its examples from many different Greek such
Instead he dives right in to his reasoning behind the book and entails of the mythological pictures of the war which left individuals with a distorted memory. For example, there is the myth of the citizen soldiers, describing them as the average guys who answered their country’s call to arms, fought bravely and cleanly, and made easy transitions back into civilian life. (Hansen) In actuality, alcoholism and venereal diseases had significant impacts on troop’s strengths, and a surprisingly high proportion of those troops did not engage in combat. Soldiers of all nations performed deeds of courage, but they also shot prisoners, machine-gunned defenseless enemies in the water or in parachutes, and raped women, including their own personnel and afterward had nightmares about what they had seen or done. (Adams, 7)
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.
Another very well used literary device in this story is personification. Personification is when an inanimate object is given human attributes. In the specific instance
The literary technique of characterization is often used to create and delineate a human character in a work of literature. When forming a character, writers can use many different methods of characterization. However, there is one method of characterization that speaks volumes about the character and requires no more than a single word - the character's personal name. In many cases, a personal name describes the character by associating him with a certain type of people or with a well known historical figure. Therefore, since the reader learns the character's name first, a personal name is a primary method of characterization; it
With this part of the story, O’Brien is able to inject the theme of shame motivating the characters in the book. This chapter is about how the author, who is also the narrator, is drafted for the war. He runs away to the border between Canada and the United States, he stays in a motel with an old man for about a week and finds that he should go to war for his country. In the beginning it was about shame, he didn’t want to look like a coward because in truth he was scared. He was afraid to face the pressures of war, the humiliation and the fact of losing “everything”. This man was an average person who lived an average life with no problems, until he got the notice about the war, which caused the shame and fear of being seen as a bad person to come out.