Potato Peel Pie Society Analysis

The topic of war is hard to imagine from the perspective of one who hasn't experienced it. Literature makes it accessible for the reader to explore the themes of war. Owen and Remarque both dipcik what war was like for one who has never gone through it. Men in both All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum” experience betrayal of youth, horrors of war and feelings of camaraderie.

William Dean Howells was an advocate of realism in writing; he believed that literary art should reflect the reality of the common man and demonstrate the truth of everyday current issues. He believed in truthful writing and he accepted very little at face value. He practiced this belief in his own writing, and his story called “Editha” is a good example of this. In this ironic tragedy, W.D. Howells shows the truth and nature of war. He uses a combination of metaphoric characters, irony, and the pathos appeal to create an almost grotesque parody of the reality of war. In final analysis, Howells is successful in highlighting the consequences of war and inspiring the audience to question the wisdom of those who advocate armed conflict.

Literature encapsulates the human experience, reflecting facets of our culture, traditions, and beliefs. Literature functions as a tool to develop and explore empathetic links with other individuals and can provide insight into experiences removed from our own reality. Peter Fischl’s poem ‘Little Polish Boy’ is one such text in which we can attain a unique understanding of the horrors catalysed by war. An expression of Fischl’s own Holocaust experience, this poem is set in WWII, and addressed as a letter to an innocent child of the war from a photograph Fischl found years after the war ended. We can also learn of the loss and grief children face in times of war through the picture book ‘a Soldier, a Dog and a Boy’ by Libby Hathorn. The story follows a young boy orphaned by the Battle of Somme and he’s only left to survive with his dog before an Australian soldier comes to his rescue. These texts allow us to reach a better understanding of the different effects conflict has on children.

World War II is deeply regarded as one of the darkest times humanity has ever been a part of. Such a time period is almost exclusively renowned as an incredibly bloody interval. However, behind the rain of blood is a psychological war. Sir Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister during World War II was a participant of such a war. The book Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom (Referenced as Churchill and Orwell) by Thomas E. Ricks visualizes Churchill’s endeavor in World War II as well as this obscure mental war. Churchill had fought this mental war by opposing public disapproval, understanding the enemy and making alliances.

World War I changed the landscape of Europe, particularly France, like no war had ever before. The memoir, A Life of Her Own, depicts the experiences of Emilie Carles, a politically active French women. The memoir depicts the country’s history throughout, not only World War I, but most of the 20th century. Carles brother, Joseph, was caught in a German Prisoner of War camp for a good portion of the war. While there, he would write to the Carles and documented the horrors of war. The article A Republic of Letters: The Epistolary Tradition in France during World War I accurately demonstrates the letters exchanged between Joseph and his family throughout the duration of the war. The French economy needed an influx of workers to cope with the departure of abled bodied men while the war took place. For example, The Carles had to sacrifice any leisure time they had to deal with losing another worker on the family farm. These workers were replaced by immigrants. The impact of these new laborers is documented in Workers in France during World War I. The story of Emilie Carles and her family was just one of many examples of families that were dismantled emotionally and economically due to World War I.

“These things all went together to make the most hateful, most beautiful single scene I have ever known” (Pyle). “ ‘come then, let us go forward together with our United strength’ “( “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat”). The people of Britain are still recovering from the attacks in 1940. Many of the civilians were scared for

Howells' short story sheds light on the unreasonable outlook of the literal world from a perception fueled by standards of romanticism. Personified through Editha Balcom, a shallow, impersonal, perfection-seeking young woman, the influence of the ideal is emphasized through her self-centered demeanor, lofty expectations, and naive character. Early on, It is evident that Editha lives in a world of her own, unaware of wrong from right, rather, she only acknowledges whether an act is heroic or not. She looks at her fiancé, George Gearson, a humble, rational, peaceful young man, with this exact sentiment upon his weary announcement of the beginning of war. As expected, she calls the otherwise brutal act of war "glorious!" (Howells 168) in a frenzy of emotion. Editha seeks a perfect man who should return from war having done "something worthy to have won her" in other words, somebody to "be a hero, her hero" (169). As Editha prepares herself to relinquish George to war, the reader witnesses the true debilitating forces of one who is congenial with the ideal. Through dramatic and emotional outpourings to George by letter, her writing evinces to be the quintessence of unrealistic virtues; one in particular filled with fluffy, over

Irony is not always funny; verbal, dramatic, and situational irony are often used to assert truth or to add depth to an author’s writing. In Erich Maria Remarque’s book, All Quiet on the Western Front, the reader experiences years of life on the front of World War I through the eyes of a young German man, Paul Bäumer, who has enlisted with his classmates at the expectation of their schoolmaster. Remarque uses irony throughout his novel, best displayed in the names of the characters, the various settings, and in the deaths of the characters.

“Silence. These were the habits that I wore as I lived what survivors of the Holocaust now call a U-boat, a Jewish fugitive from the Nazi death machine, hiding right in heat of the Third Reich.” With these words, Edith Hahn lays down the foundation for her captivating memoir. Born in Vienna, Austria in 1914, Edith Hahn was a Jewish girl who strived to go further in the education and not become a housewife. Despite her hopes and dreams, at the age of 27, and only one test away from achieving her law degree, Edith was turned away from her University due to the rules set up by Hitler and the Reich during the Anschluß. As they are witnessing the Nazi rise to power, Edith's sibling, all but her, leave. One sister takes refuge in Israel, and her brother in England. From then on, Edith and her mother were stripped of their home and forced to live in the slowly degrading conditions of the Jewish ghetto.

World War Two had a major impact on Jane’s childhood. Jane’s father quit race car driving and joined the British army to fight Nazis. Vanne and her two daughters moved in with Jane’s Grandmother, who lived in Bournemouth a little more than a hundred miles from London. Bournemouth was safer than London. The Nazis dropped bombs on London it took decades to fix. Jane’s life was great in Bournemouth she had her own nature club, members had to identify lots of animals and plants.

When the author writes “To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness,” Marie-Laure experienced war in a completely different way. It showed me blindness like I never really thought of before. Not having your sight makes your other senses stronger which made her able to feel more than ever. World War II has brought about many businesses including Nestle who was bought out by a holocaust survivor, BMW was made up of slave laborers provided by the Nazis, and IBM who custom built computers to keep track of Nazi’s timetables and the number of Jews being shipped around. During this time technology was increasing a significant amount that was mostly done by Nazi’s. In this book it seems like German’s have been misunderstood in World War II. Many Nazi’s were forced into war not having a choice whether or not to kill, and if they chose not to there own life would be taken. This gave me a different perspective in the holocaust as not all Nazi’s were killing, as Warner was a prime example of one. I think this has changed my perspective on war being fought because it showed the good of what could come out of war. When everything is said and done you can only look at the negative for so long until you look at the positive. Marie-Laure found love in her life of fear of always hiding and never let her blindness stop her. This gives me a better perspective of international marketing by just

In the excerpt from A Summer Life, the autobiographical narrative by Gary Soto, he uses tactile and olfactory imagery, dramatic diction, repetition, and religious allusions to recreate the experience of his six-year-old self. In the first part of the story, Soto describes his experience feeling nervous while stealing a pie as well as the temptation of the pie using imagery. Then, he reveals details about how enticing and delicious the pie was when he finally got to eat it using dramatic diction. Finally, at the end of the excerpt, Soto shares the extreme amount of paranoia and guilt he felt after both stealing and eating the pie using repetition and religious allusions.

The story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is an enormously detailed fictional account of a wartime scenario in which jimmy Cross (the story’s main character) grows as a person, and the emotional and physical baggage of wartime are brought to light. The most obvious and prominent feature of O’Brien’s writing is a repetition of detail. O’brien also passively analyzes the effects of wartime on the underdeveloped psyche by giving the reader close up insight into common tribulations of war, but not in a necessarily expositorial sense.. He takes us into the minds of mere kids as they cope with the unbelievable and under-talked-about effects or rationalizing

In “The Diary of Anne Frank” the tone is sad because the theme of the adapted play is acceptance. During World War II, Jews are not accepted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis; in fact, hundreds of Jews are being killed daily. Anne and her “family” realize what is going on when Dussel joins them in hiding, “Hundreds are being deported . . . people that you and I know . . . the Hallensteins . . . the Wessels . . . ” (Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, 727). The “family” begins to notice how lucky they are to have been in hiding, how different it will be for them if they survive, and also how dangerous it is for the rest of the Jewish society. Survival for the Jews had been difficult because the Nazis wanted all Jews dead; in relation,

I was gifted some baru seeds from Baru Baron in Toronto. When I opened the package my mind instantly thought of graham cracker crust. I wanted to create something light, cooling, and fresh tasting since it's the summer. Typically key lime pie is made with a graham cracker crust so I thought I'd try a raw version.