Short Story : Henry's Life

When Henry meets back up with his regiment an older man begins to have a discussion with him. The old man asks Henry “where yuh hit, ol’ boy?”. With massive feelings of guilt, Henry shrugs away from the man and runs back into the woods. From behind a tree, he can see all the wounded soldiers on the battle field. “At times he regarded

Henry was a normal boy and did all of the normal things young boys do: making noise, being busy and active, nosing around in the refrigerator, and asking questions - all part and parcel of being a normal child. But he was brought up to believe he wasn't a "model boy." His parents were constantly interrupted by him - his mother while she was reading and grading papers, and his father so much so that he spent most of his time in his office on campus, joining them only at mealtimes. His father wished to remain "blissfully unaware."

Immediately as the speech begins, Henry’s tone manifests itself and remains unwavering. Henry begins, “It is natural for a man to indulge in the illustration of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth” (1). This sheds insight on his message and portrays him as a well versed individual. He then strengthens his tone when he says

First, one should focus on the language and Henry's ethos. The soldiers are burdened with the thought of a

Looking at the plot of the story, one can see that the story deals with a psychological conflict. Before Henry had left for the Vietnam War he and Lyman had a close relationship and since coming back he changed significantly because of what he saw and experienced. Lyman explains, “Once I was in the room watching TV with Henry and I heard his teeth click at something. I looked over and he’d bitten through his lip. Blood was going down his chin” (Erdrich 129). This example shows how Henry is dealing with the post war stress and how he cannot get what he went through out of his head. As he sits and watches the replaying war videos, he is unable to get past that he can live again and go back to the way things were because psychologically he is still at war and fighting.

Henry’s mental state also differed before and after the Vietnam War. Henry thought clearly and acted sane before war. When he put his mind to something he accomplished it. Henry interacted well because of his knowledge of cars. Lyman says, “He was always out with that car” describing the knowledge that Henry had about the car to fix it from the bad condition it was in (978). His mental state was that of any normal person.

In a battle in deep trenches, Henry starts complaining that the regiment has no real plan in the battle and that the regiment does not really know what to do in the battle. Wilson tries to calm down Henry from his anger, but Henry got angrier and took his anger out on Wilson. The lieutenant was dissatisfied with Henry’s anger and told him to keep his mouth shut about anything that might bring the regiment down. His immaturity is shown as Henry does not know how to control his feelings in a dangerous situation, which could get him and the regiment in

Henry perhaps felt a need to say what was on his mind as he saw the immediate nobility change in the court around him causing much stress and indifference.

He almost immediately begins to ask very short and simple questions, met with his own, very short, simple answers, and examples of Britain's grievances such as how Britain is militarizing and how their petitions have been ignored. This causes the audience to question how they are handling the issues Great Britain has brought upon them, and, ultimately, causing them to rethink their choices. Henry’s goal is to give the audience a question of which they cannot answer unless they think similar to how he

In the beginning of the book Maximum Ride max does not know that family is the most important thing in life so she is feeling lonely and stressed. One specific example that shows this is “max your way out of line” fang said furiously “ there is no way he is. Coming with us” Fang said. “He saved our lives and they were going to kill him” max told fang. “good” fang said. “ he tried to kill us a hundred times”. Max let the person who almost killed her fang and the rest of the flock come with them. And max does not see the big deal. Another specific example that shows this:. “ the one think we have is each other . the one thing we can depend on, no matter what. We have to… talk about stuff.” I would pretty much rather have been torn apart by wild animals. “I like it better when you don't talk” (22) Max is saying that to the person she loves the person who has always been there for her who cares about her. So why is she telling him to stop talking. Lastly a specific example that shows this:

By using pathos, Henry brings out emotions that drive the delegates to join the war. In the speech, Henry uses different emotions such as fear to persuade delegates. He

Henry’s internal struggle is his view of courage. Henry believes courage is something a person earns and achieves. He never experienced war, but has dreamt and, “He had imagined peoples secure in the shadow of his eagle-eyed prowess. But awake he had regarded battles as crimson blotches on the pages of the past. He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-images of heavy crowns and high castles.” (Crane 3) Henry wants to go to war to become a hero. He thinks that he has courage and could go to war and get all the glory. Henry runs from battle and has guilt, he comes up with excuses, he is a piece of the army and should save himself. When Henry comes back to the battlefield, he sees wounded soldiers and, “At times he regarded the

He also turns towards pathos, trying to provoke emotion from the audience and his classmates by using phrases as “outrageous fortune” to strike up motivation within them. Henry is

They didn?t have a plan. This gave them a destination and they went with it. Henry also showed his silly side when Susy showed them her long hair. He asked her to jump on his shoulders. Once she did it he declared, ?I always wondered what it was like to have long pretty hair? (366). This all ended when Henry got drafted. Lyman compared the old Henry to the new one. ?He?d always had a joke then, too, and now you couldn?t get him to laugh, or when he did it was more the sound of a man choking, a sound that stopped up the throats of other people around him? (367). Henry?s attitude had done a complete one-eighty. He was the exact opposite of his old self. According to Lyman, ?Henry was jumpy and mean.? (367)

Henry doesn’t know what to think and feel about what happened to Franklin and Chay. The author doesn’t quite show how Henry feels unlike Louisa she states it obviously unlike with Henry you have to think about what he might be thinking or feeling. To me Henry seems like he is hiding his feeling about what happened for Louisa. “ ‘Oz’ Louisa said. ‘Because everything was okay for now.’...