Essay about Reader-Response on Soldier's Home

Many authors often express internal emotions through their own writing. “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway is a short story about a returning Soldier from war. The story takes place in the late 1910’s. Krebs, the main character returns from war, lost and unable to transition from Soldier to civilian. After returning home, Krebs misses the “greeting of heroes” from his home town in Oklahoma (Hemingway). Throughout the story Krebs mentions several situations of being uncomfortable around the people

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns fire out they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives, a quote by Siegfried Sassoon. Good morning/afternoon Mr Lambkin and peers. I stand before you to talk about Siegfried Sassoon, an English man who was brought up in a wealthy family on a private country estate. He is a man, who uses his own experiences of war to compose poems, poems reflecting his thoughts and emotions of the horror and futility towards war. The two poems ‘The Hero’ and ‘Does It Matter

Response Paper Analysis of Harold Krebs in the “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway Introduction “Soldier’s Home” is a short story develops by Earnest Hemingway. It is about an American military officer who has taken part in the First World War. Harold Krebs, the main character, returns home later than the other officers. He thus passes up a noble chance for a great welcome to home. The story shows how Krebs struggles to fit back into the community after the war (Hemingway, 133). He is silent about

A Soldiers Home The contents in this book have the purpose to open up and provoke a reaction from the readers. The author writes with the intention being to get a reaction from the readers concerning war. War is never easy for anyone. This is independent of whether the person is a participant in the war or from the point of perspective of the observer. The families of the soldiers also have an alteration in their lives. War is never an easy occurrence and has by far serious implications and significance

inevitable for loss to be experienced by all. In the poems “The Black Rat” and “The Photograph” written by Iris Clayton and Peter Kocan respectively, the idea of loss is explored through an omniscient narrator recalling a soldier’s involvement in warfare. While Clayton writes of a soldier’s abrupt loss of hope and how this experience negatively affects his life, Kocan explores how the loss of a loved one affects a family sixty years later. While both poems incorporate similar techniques in imagery and narration

In 1925, Ernest Hemingway composed the short story “Soldier’s Home”. The story sheds a light on the experience some veterans encounter. Returning home from war for some soldiers is an exuberant experience. However, for other soldiers, the experience is full of isolation and lack of connection. Hemingway uses a variety of literary elements to portray his message. The setting of the story is the summer of 1919 in a small Oklahoma town. World War 1 just ended two years prior and the main character

World War I was unlike the glorified notion that was publicised in propaganda on the home front, as many soldiers believed it was honourable and glorious to die for their country. Instead, men who “marched off to battle with a romantic view of war” were confronted with dreadful conditions of trenches and the horrors of human conflict, as expressed in the poem, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’. Due to the experiences of war, young soldiers had become frail, decrepit and confined, and through the striking comparisons

wrote The Things They Carried in order to demonstrate this aforementioned warning as well the cryptic reality of Vietnam. By implementing a cataloging technique, O’Brien truly brings the horrifying stories of Vietnam to life further roping in his readers so much that they feel themselves carrying the characters burdens of the Alpha Company. Ultimately O’Brien’s book The Things They Carried,

sense of pity within the readers and furthermore, Owen stimulates a sense of outrage that men are permitted to join the army below the allowed age. In addition he uses graphic descriptions and effective diction as a means to stimulate a sense of horror within the reader. In the poem Disabled, Wilfred Owen shows the sorrowful life of a disabled soldier. He uses a distinct simile in this poem, to portray soldier’s early

Amongst the different genres of poetry that we can find, war poetry has been one which proved to generate great interest from people around the world. The idea of war is in itself very terrible and any individual can confidently say that no one would want to face the horrors of it. However, it was not presented in this manner prior and during the build-up to World War I. It was common to find that many people were sugar coating war with the idea of pride yet they were not discussing the dreadful