Stephen Crane's War Is Kind

The overall message in this poem is a drill sergeant educating young soldiers and preparing them for the harsh reality of war. He is not playing ‘Mr. nice guy’, he is being tough and strict to give the soldiers no easy way out.

First, Stephen Crane develops emotional connections with the readers by using irony to comfort the families. He does so by repeating “war is kind” when in fact it is not. He is convincing

The similar theme is that war changes people and tears them apart due to the pain and suffering of the war. “Cursing the war, cursing himself, cursing everybody”(O’Flaherty 208). The quote helps show that the war may cause you to curse things you never would've before, like, yourself. And from the poem “He thought he’d list perhaps/ Off hand like just as I/ Was out of work, had sold his traps/ No other reason why”(Hardy 16-20). This tells how war can force people to make erratic decisions, it changes your attitude and morals about any situation including joining the army and going to war. The difference between the two stories is that in “The Sniper” it turns him against his family and in “The Man He Killed” it turned the soldier against his friends. To prove this, “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother's face”(O’Flaherty, page 208). Again this tells of the shock the sniper received when he saw it was his brother he had killed. But in the opposing story “Yes, quaint and curious war is!/ You shoot a fellow down/ You’d treat if met where any bar is/ Or help to half-a-crown”(Hardy 17-20). It explains of how he killed a man that the soldier would have befriended in any other situation. All in all, you can see both the similarities and differences in both stories

The author was giving a message then at the end of the poem it changes. He was giving the message that war happens to everybody and that they will have to go to war at some point in there life. The problem is that they don’t know the bourdon that it puts on the people that he has supported and been supported by until his son is sent of. He gets a totally different feeling when he doesn’t know what could happen to his son. He gets his message across by proving that every body has something to do with war wether they like it or not. Your parents might have been to war, if not them then your uncles, cousins, friends, or your neighbors(old men). Then if it isn’t them it could be your child who is going and the feeling is different, you lose the feeling of security when you cant protect your child. He

“If I truly believe the war is wrong, is it then also wrong to go off and kill people? If I do that, what will happen to my soul?” (pg 60). Tim O 'Brien is an American man who was drafted into the Vietnam War. O 'Brien is not a violent man and struggles because he believes that the war is wrong. He debates whether or not he should go to war or move to Canada to avoid the draft. Tim O 'Brien decides to join the army. O 'Brien uses his personal experiences as a foot soldier in the Vietnam War to convey his possible bias perspective that the Vietnam War was a waste of people 's lives and a shameful venture for the United States.

To the United States, World War II is believed to be a good war, and why wouldn’t it be considered as such? During World War II, in addition to stopping mass genocide and stopping the spread of Nazism and Fascism, the United States beat Japan after their attack on Pearl Harbor. As a result, the U.S. was no longer in the Depression and the United States became a world power. However, in “The Best War Ever,” Michael C.C. Adams argues that as a result of Hollywood’s glamorization of the war, government propaganda/censorship, and the widespread of economic prosperity, Americans were kept in the dark about the truth regarding World War II resulting in the popular belief and myth that World War II was a good war.

The Best War Ever, written by Michael C. C. Adams, is a book focusing on the balanced history of the experience from America’s view during World War II. It neither glorifies nor vilifies the U.S. participation but discusses the real horrors of the war by using glorifying aspects that could have been deceptive or even misleading. World War II defined and transformed the rest of our lives. Americans viewed World War II as the “Good War” or “The Best War Ever”. After the end of the war, Americans had a positive outlook after overcoming the past years. German fascism and the Japanese were defeated but were also encouraged to resume roles of our world responsibility in our image of democracy. It is generally agreed that World War II was a necessary war.

Crane’s approach to writing about the war was fresh because, of the fact that we were basically inside the heads of one of the soldiers(henry). We could feel how he felt and we knew his fears. Besides that Crane was blunt about how disorganized the war was.

A gentleman known as Chris Hedges, wrote: “War is Betrayal.” He explains and portrays logos by using evidence of himself and talking about others because he has had the experience of being involved in a war. War is a conflict between two opposing groups of enemies pitted against one another in a gruesome battle. In reality, it leaves everlasting effects of dismemberment, mental issues and glory promises to the poor and working class which are eventually only forgotten by society. The military guarantees that the poor, working class will become a much better people and feel like they have achieved something inordinate if they go to war and fight for our cherished country. Those that reside in higher classes have never thought about joining the war, they just expect the lower classes to take all responsibility. Those who went to battle, Veterans, suffer immensely when they return because they are burdened physically, emotionally, and mentally as a result of tragic experience they encountered within their time of serving. Also, he uses ethos by using other people’s tragic experiences as well as not using a counterpoint. Hedges elucidates that war is a betrayal towards America because it does not give the people the ability to reside in peace as well as causing those who fought for a prodigious country to live with long-term effects as a result of catastrophic experiences.

Have you ever read a passage and wondered how authors can make war seem so horrific instead of persuading the younger generations to volunteer? These four authors are especially good at protesting war by writing: Stephen Crane, who was not actually a participant in war, but encountered a lot of the war tragedies first hand and reported them to the public for the Spanish-American War. Wilfred Owens, a twenty-five year old who died only one week before WWI ended, he would write down his experiences and what he saw, but his works were not published until his belongings were sent back to his family. Tim O’Brien, participant of the Vietnam War who is still alive today and currently works as a professor. Lastly, Kevin Powers, the youngest of them

1. Crane appeared to be enthusiastic, as he used a fresh approach, to write about the war. There are two quotes, from the story, which, exactly, reveal this. From the first of the quotes, ("...As the landscape charged from brown to green, the the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors..."), we can tell, that something exciting, in a dramatic way was going on. We can, also, begin to see, that the army seemed to be fighting for something big, since it is mentioned, in the text, that they were awakened, suddenly. The army was fighting, for something they, probably, wanted, badly, as we can see, that the army "began to tremble with eagerness"). The second quote, from the story, which reveals Crane's fresh approach, was ("He was swelled with a tale he had heard from a reliable friend...").

Denis Cooper was a very interesting man and had many unbelievable stories from experience in the war and was always willing to talk about them. There was an abundant amount of information that went down to the tiniest detail thanks to his letters home, his willingness to talk about his battle experiences, and him being a Bryn Athyn man with many other people giving information about him. Also, his kids were very intrigued of their father in the war so they supplied lots of information he told them. Denis’s stories were so interesting, including the fact that he was so close to dying one time and it was a miracle just for him to be alive. This paper will include his childhood and personal information, his involvement in the war and what he

With minimalistic and truthfully writing he manages to get across more than one point that other books have only been able to skim the surface of. The book as a whole should be read as a new genre of war literature; it is realistic war literature. The Yellow Birds is not written for the reader to connect with the characters, only to expose the “truth” of war; this truth which once read is shelved away with the stories almost exactly like it. Even though Powers has given us a fictional piece with leeway to create such a story it is not able to connect to the reader the way Ghost of War accomplishes this. The ur-war story is unsuccessful when it is followed exactly because its reputation

This lack of personal perspective in no way serves to hamper Crane’s staggering ability to paint prosaically and then, heroically beyond question, transform his own mighty pen into a proverbial sword. The author explains it best: “When I regularly read first-person accounts from soldiers serving in the Civil War, I often wondered how they felt. Their writing leaves them (and me) as emotionless as

Crane, Stephen. “An Episode of War.” Great Short Works of Stephen Crane. New York: Harper