My Experience In My Life

Experiencing this brutal component of war will not only destroy the inner workings of society, but will also turn neighborhoods into piles of rubble. Even towns far away from a target were not safe because the missiles during World War II were not accurate. “Nobody, not even people living in tiny villages, had reason to feel safe and secure.” (Author Unknown)

The psychologist Sigmund Freud once said, “Because every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.” He initially stated this when he was corresponding with Albert Einstein via letter. This quote is also a great explanation of the events that take place during war that people chose to not recognise. War is terrible, and no matter how hard we try, nothing will change that. Erich Maria Remarque shows us that soldiers have endured dreadfully throughout World War I in his book “All Quiet on the Western Front”. The character in the book, Paul Baumer, endures through the tragedies of war with some of his old schoolmates as well as new comrades that he meets along the way. They survive through all of the tragedies together, but in the end, the war made them lose their friendships as well as their lives. The reality is that war comes with consequences while it destroys people, and there is nothing that will ever be able to change that. The book “All Quiet on the Western Front” shows how war comes destroys people's lives with its consequences through three of its themes: the importance of comradery, the loss of innocence, and the horrors and brutality of war.

It’s been 15 years since that day, but the moment still haunts me today. When we found out that a nuclear bomb was going to drop, my family and the rest of the street had no idea what to do. Everything was all over the place, seconds after the explosion happened. Houses were destroyed, cars were flipped and ravaged, and thousands of dead bodies were lying on the streets. Some of them were even our dearest friends.

This horrific story really opened my eyes because I had no absolutely idea what war was like and could not imagine what it was like for a child to endure.

Through the years 1939 through 1945 there was the terrifying tragedy of World War II. It wrecked people’s homes and nations, killed many families and friends. However, the true destruction it caused was on the mind, the psyches and the sanity of the loved ones waiting at home and the men in battle. I am Louie Zamperini and this is my story from the war, and how I was unbroken.

“The bombing that night began with a shower of slow-burning incendiaries”- Betty Popkiss as she remembers the horrors that awaited her, that first night.

You’ve had many hard times in your life, and the bombing of Himmel Street was just one of them. When you went down to the basement that night, did you feel any unusual thoughts? Did you have any idea that in just minutes your

The diseases that carried throughout the trenches and the rats and all the dirty animals crawling around was unimaginably disturbing. The horrible screams and shouts as soldiers get impaled with artillery shells and bullets gave me shudders. And after the war, I still would always think about these things from time to time, even when I do not want to. The unique names of the Germans would not be spoken anymore. The knowingness that millions of soldiers and civilians died in the war brings sorrow every time. Innocent lives were sacrificed or were unknowingly killed. The unfairness of pair and defensiveness civilians were slaughtered during the war stings.

Many innocent people were killed. They had no time to try to evacuate or fight back, instead, children in schools and women at home were turned into debris, injured or vaporized. Yoshitaka Kawamoto a boy who lived there explained “I crawled over the debris

War can be seen from different perspectives but can also be defined as a battle against an opponent. War also impacts people differently based on the events taking place. Traumas from being a victim or perpetuator can affect the individuals’ involved emotionally, mentally and physically. Hence, the conflicts can alter life drastically. When we look at the battle, we tend to disregard the effect of the perpetrator also known as the soldier who fought in the war and the victims who experienced the tragedy as bystanders, instead the focus is more on the mass destruction of bombings in communities. In the book “Maus” by Art Speigelman and film “The Best Years of Our Life” by William Wyler, the narrator takes us into a world of war where the behavioral changes in the victims is brought up as a result of the war that takes place. The novel and film display’s another point view which allows the viewers to see the true experience that individuals go through instead of just physical attacks on the environment during war.

I couldn't even hear myself think! The smoke and dust gather around my comrades and I. I can't hear and now I can't see anything through this dirt and dust, it's almost impossible. I can make out the figure of my fellow comrade. I can smell the dust from the explosion and this awfully strong metal kind of smell. The blanket of smoke and dust trap me and my comrades, I feel the heavy air slowly suffocating me.

All my life, I had been a child who played with my friends, went to school, helped my mother and father, and spent time with my siblings. This was my country, this was my world, and this was my everything. Until something happened; someone became unhappy with our country and they brought a lot of men with guns to where we live. The men started shooting, and men from our side fired back. This was going on for a long time, and everything was different. My father told me it was something called war, and wars go on for a long time, and affect everybody.

As a kid I was not brought up in a harsh range, nor was I poor, inconvenience just in some way or another discovered me in

Hersey not only manages to capture the emotional effect of the six main characters, but also that of the thousands who had survived the initial blast. The bomb dropped at 8:15 a.m. As described in the book, many were eating breakfast or at work. Some were sitting on their porches and watching their neighbors work. Hershey captures the moment of shock after the bomb had dropped, “Timbers fell around her as she landed, and a shower of tiles pommelled her; everything became dark, for she was buried. The debris did not cover her deeply. She rose up and freed herself. She heard a child cry, “Mother, help me!,” and saw her youngest—Myeko, the five-year-old—buried up to her breast and unable to move. As Mrs. Nakamura started frantically to claw her way toward the baby, she could see or hear nothing of her other children. (22)” This quote shows the motherly instinct of Mrs. Nakamura as she desperately tries to find her children. Just moments ago, the air was peaceful and quiet until the equivalent of 15 tons of TNT was thrust upon them. Hersey later describes the gruesome scene through the eyes of Reverend Tanimoto, “He was the only

It was the winter of 1934 and my family and I were packing our suitcases to run away from our home in Germany. My parents told me and my brother, Samuel, that we had to leave so the bad men wouldn’t take us away. They said we were going get on a boat that will take us to a happy place where we could do whatever we wanted without hiding from anyone. Little did I know at the age of six that the bad men we were running from was the S.S. army and we weren’t just running, we were running for our lives.