Descriptive Essay: The Hero's Funerals

Away from our sheltered society, there are children without an education. In and around our country, there are people risking their lives for their family’s benefit. This is because in their countries, countries that lack the wealth and luck of our own, there is war. Parents with young children are continuously fleeing in the hopes of a life with little destruction and trauma. They risk everything and venture abroad out of fear, because no child deserves to witness the devastation that war brings. War kills. War kills in front of children’s eyes, and it doesn’t care what age or gender, and it doesn’t care how many hearts it shatters. And these children have to grow up with the image of a loved one passing, and the weight of mental disorders it

To the right, the cloth has opened to the viewer a lush landscape. Smoke fills the landscapes air as contrasting reds and pinks of the ongoing battle behind them provide knowledge to the viewer that this is not the end of the long going war. Our eyes make its way back to the framed family of three. A young baby who just finished suckling away at his mother’s breasts, is the only invitation the viewer has into this painful scene. The baby looks directly at the viewer as his mother cradles him in her arm, creating a beautiful oval framing of the two. The mother’s face is not seen as she places her head on the hand of her deceased solider husband, his lifeless fingers grasped by his young child. The family holds onto each other, creating a juxtaposition due to the harsh reality of their now broken family. The soldiers limp arm provides a parallel diagonal line mirroring the draping cloth behind him. Follow his arm downwards and we see his barren body still in uniform, his long hair sprawled across the floor. Next to him near his widowed wife’s feet, sits her crumpled bonnet; a symbol for the once young mother and wife whose life is in scrambles from the effects of the revolution. A look into the helpless child’s eyes creates a real sense of pathos for viewers as it appeals to the factual evidence that can be seen at the time. The American Revolution left plenty of widowed mothers and fatherless children.

This emotionally-powerful idea snags the attention of the reader and reiterates the theme that soldiers confront several obstacles. Once more, Alexander communicates, “In practice, November 11 is clouded with ambiguous symbolism, and has become our most awkward holiday.” This quote exposes the uncomfortable situations that a plethora of veterans find themselves in. The very holidays meant to honor these soldiers has suffocated them with the question, “Why come back alive when you could have died a hero?” By explaining the social pressures soldiers face, the author restated her claims of the adversity soldiers find themselves in. While both of these articles use ample pathos, they also use logos to support their claim.

In the novel The Dead, Gabriel Conroy, who is the nephew of Julia and Kate Morkan, is the main character of the story. One night he and his wife attended a party, which was given by his two aunts, and there were many other members in the party. The story revolves around their life and memories.Gabriel Conroy felt a blur between his soul and the dead. Some people died, but they are still alive because they have true love. Some people are alive, but they are still dead because they never love.I like the story for three reasons.

Words and actions have a large impact on the way you work with the world around you, they have the ability to make you feel indescribable emotions in every way. The poem “Little Boy,” written by B.H. Fairchild begins as a young boy questions his father’s hurtful past, as the speaker demonstrates that he asked the questions as he would’ve asked if he ever saw “Dimaggio or Mantle,” and develops into an examination of a lifeless relationship between father and son. In the poem the little boy’s persistent focus on the father’s brutal past reveals a case of PTSD from his involvement in WWII, and how it affects the advancement of an already bad and unsteady and unchanging relationship of a father and son.

An inscription was then added to the tomb that said, “Honoring and Keeping Faith with America 's Missing Servicemen.”

On March 4, 1921, an unknown soldier from World War I was buried with the approval of Congress in the plaza of the Memorial Amphitheatre at Arlington National Cemetery. This serviceman was chosen randomly out of four other servicemen from four individual gravesites located in France. Not only was this soldier honored as a valiant trooper, but unknown soldiers from World War II and the Korean War were honored and remembered at this site too. The soldier located in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was buried with a white marble sarcophagus on top of the grave that has engravings of both Greek figures and words that say “an American soldier known but to God.” The importance of this mausoleum is that it honors those who were unidentified soldiers, and shows that our country will honor our armed forces and respect them, whether they are known or unknown.

The memories and feelings that the memorial brings forth from the veteran are the driving force to the tone of the poem. The poems is heavy and heartbreaking. It clearly shows that the visit to the memorial has an enormous impact on the author. The author describes several different visions he has while at the memorial. The visions that he has are as real to him as if they were physically present. The author makes it easy to see and feel things through his eyes. The words used to describe his thoughts and feeling evoke emotions of sadness and at times, even despair.

Tim O’Brien has shown repeatedly in this story that grief is the one thing that is the hardest to carry for any person. It stays with you and will sometimes cause you even more grief. This story shines a very bright light on what was happening to the soldier when they are not in combat, and how their very emotions can eat away with them. “It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do” (482), you can see through these final thoughts of Jimmy’s that he truly thinks that there is no way for any of them to let go of the emotions that they must carry every

The concept and belief of honor in the Columbian culture in Chronicle of a Death Foretold is one of the deciding aspects of the character's actions, motives, and beliefs. Nobody questions the actions taken to preserve ones honor because it is such an important moral trait that one must cherish. In this society a man or woman without honor is an outcast to the community and to the culture. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold two twin brothers are burdened with defending this tradition of honor. The brothers find out that their sister has lost her virginity before marriage and she claims that Santiago Nasar is to blame. To regain the honor of their sister, and their family the brothers believe it is their duty to kill Santiago Nasar. Could such

a) I really liked this poem; I thought it was very vivid and memorable. It made me feel angry and sad for the soldiers that died and for the suffering of the other soldiers, their injuries, their trauma and the conditions they had to endure. My daughter also read this poem and it affected her in a similar way; it made her feel sad, angry and ashamed for the things that happened. (71)

Medieval China, as seen in the Stories from a Ming Collection, was characterized by distinct separations between men and women’s abilities, typical old fashioned family structure, and a desire to advance their social status. Throughout all the stories in this book, it dives deep into different aspects of how men and women are treated, how families were structured and how that affects their lives, as well as the values these people held. A very common trend in the stories was how different men and women were treated and the limitations they may or may not had.

It its often said that when you are in the face of death a flash of your entire life seems to appear. You would give anything for a mere few more seconds left on this earth, but when it is inevitable there is nothing else to do but tell all those you love to be strong, forgive you for making them go through this grief and try amend those you have hurt. In 1861, knowing that the probabilities of surviving this battle were really low, Major Sullivan Bailou wrote a heart wrenching letter referencing his endless love toward his wife, to elicit sympathy in order for her to accept his death and to evoke his never ending affection for her.

Today was funeral day. My mom’s funeral. It was a dark October thursday, the clouds were brewing a storm. A slight breeze disturbed my neck. My uncomfortable suit sleeves bellowed in the cold breeze.. I hadn’t felt any emotions since the day of her death, which was weeks ago, almost as if my emotion is grey. It was warm then, as my mind was too. Nowadays, up until today, my mind has been a dark fog, as if my mind was released into the sky, darkening everyone’s day, arriving at my mom’s funeral or just to cuddle up with their friends and family in front of a warm crackling fire, telling the stories of their childhood and how times were better. Not me, my dad usually ignored me and he only worked on managing my mom’s fortune. Yeah. My mom’s

now. The only thing I can do now is pray and hope. To pray that I will