Story Analysis: The Great War

Gen.   John J. Pershing   , a veteran of the Spanish-American War, commanded the AEF. The U.S. was far from prepared to send an army to the European front

The Great War , or as it is known now, World War One was a global conflict fought between the Allied Powers ; Great Britain, France, Russia, and the United States along will other smaller nations and the Central Powers ; Germany, Austria – Hungary, Turkey/Ottoman Empire and other small nations from 1914 to 1918. World War One began from a series of tumultuous events, that in turn affected the balance of alliances that had been made between countries at that time in the world.

The second theme is the unromantic reality of war. Richie and most other soldiers enter the war with illusions about what the war will be like. Like most other civilians, he learned what war is from movies he watched and stories that he heard and they portray battles as heroic and glorious, the army being organized and efficient, and the warfare depending on skills and

In the incredible book, All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, the reader follows Paul Baumer, a young man who enlisted in the war. The reader goes on a journey and watches Paul and his comrades face the sheer brutality of war. In this novel, the author tries to convey the fact that war should not be glorified. Through bombardment, gunfire, and the gruesome images painted by the author, one can really understand what it would have been like to serve on the front lines in the Great War. The sheer brutality of the war can be portrayed through literary devices such as personification, similes, and metaphors.

John had 3 kids with her that he had watched by his parents while he went off to war. His main objective now is to not end up like his other squad mates and die at the hands of the germans. The desire became stronger as he stared at the bodies of his dead squad mates. The blood flowing out like a river. The cold dead look on their faces. The men find an abandoned house to try and radio call for help. As they were trying to make the call they heard men speaking in german again. The voices were near by. John went to look out the window and counted ten men armed with rifles and submachine guns. The three men froze upon seeing the sight of the angry germans. John’s mind turned blank and he was unable to think of a plan to get the three of them out of this if they were discovered by the germans. But just then an M2 Sherman tank came mowing down any trees that came in its path and shot down the germans with machine gun fire. Tears of joy stream down John’s face at the sight of seeing a friendly tank with a bright yellow sun behind it. The nightmare was over and the darkness from the night has fallen. The three men have survived and are fortunate enough to return home to their families. John will get to see his kids once again in a happy and safe

Comparing the Ways Michael Herr in Dispatches and Pat Barker in Regeneration Show the Effects of War

The Great War has been over for about two years. My family lives in a small cottage close to one of the old training camps and an air force base, in Long Island, New York. The base is best known as Mitchell Air Force Base. It’s really frightening living close to one. You just never know what could happen because, just a year ago, there was a plane shot down by American Force and the ground shook vibrantly. Our small and crowded house has only 2 bedrooms and there are 7 of us. When the war just got over, we were told that Roland, my husband, died because of a perforated bowel, which means a hole in his intestines. When were heard he was in the hospital, we were going to go see him, but recently our car had been taken away for parts needed

Combining all these serious themes into a very entertaining book should attract many readers. However, there was some confusion with the story line. Since this book is a collection of interviews, it wasn’t a conventional story. When I first started the book, I wasn’t sure why I was jumping from country to country and why each story was completely different. As I continued to read the book, I was able to understand that these were a collection of eyewitness accounts of the war. Also, Max Brooks uses a rife amount of vulgar language which I think could have been kept out. However, it made it real and that’s what this book is about.

7. The author emphasized certain details so that the reader can understand the time period they were in. In this case the time period would be in the distant future. It states in the passage that they were using a super computer to help them win the war. These are important details because they describe exactly what the people are doing during this time. Without these details we wouldn't know what the time period was and it would lack a lot of

It seems that the exposition tells us that there are thousands of people living inside a huge machine called multivac. The story begins with a celebration because the war against the denebians has been won. The rising actions are when the three men agree to have made changes manually in the machine. They unveil that they have tickered with the machine so that the pointers multivac gives for the war, aren’t so mechanically made. The definite rising action is the entire conversation the three men have around the fourth and fifth page of the story. I could say that the climax is the part when Swift tells Henderson that he didn't use multivac's data output (which seemed to him to be improbable and sometimes impossible) for making decisions on war

While many are seemingly unimportant, when taken together they make the world the novel is set in completely unbelievable. This naturally rolls over to making the plot unbelievable as well. The book would have you believe WW3's start, end, and a totalitarian worldwide dictatorship taking over will all happen in less than a decade. While I can believe the war will last less than a decade, it’s the last bit that ruffled my jimmies. The logistics alone would entail at least a decade of work before a single man could take over the world. This isn’t even taking into account governments and populations resisting. Furthermore, the areas listed as devastated by the war hold very little military or economic importance by and large while population and power centers seem unscathed. Along with other such details, I was thrown out of the world early on, and the book never recovered.

The narrative follows Juan Rico during his service in the Mobile Infantry, a futuristic branch of the military engaged in an interstellar war against an aggressive alien species called “the Bugs.” However, the novel focuses more of the characters and the themes than the actual war, showing the humanity of the soldiers; “Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.” (55) Most of the actual political discussions within the novel take place in flashbacks to Juan Rico’s old high school teacher, Mr. Dubois, who seemed to act as how Heinlein got a lot of his beliefs across in the text. This is supported by what Dubois teaches correlating to Heinlein’s militaristic views: “Violence, naked force, has solved more issues in history than has any other factor.” (27) Looking back to the newspaper ad that inspired Heinlein, the community’s concern was namely about the weapon development, the potential of the weapons being in use, rather than the people who would be using them. Perhaps this is why Heinlein decided to focus on the characters rather than the battles. The real threats are not the nuclear weapons themselves, but instead are the ones who pull the trigger, that “there are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men”

The first Great War began as a dispute over land between the tribal ponies of Soleria and the Manticores of the eastern marshes. The fighting between the two factions was bloody and brutal, and neither spared an ounce of mercy. Eventually, the ponies were able to overcome their foes though superior magic and weaponry, and from the mountains of corpses and bloodstained earth rose a mighty kingdom.

The exposition is the Earth, the future after a lengthy war with the Denebians,and an alien race. Earth has won the war. The main characters are celebrating the victory. The rising action is when Henderson explained how the data was being fed into Multivac and was corrupted, and how he created data on his own to put into the machine. Ultimately Henderson thinks he won the war. Jablonsky discredits Henderson. He says that he knew Multivac was malfunctioning so instead of the computer making suggestions, he put his own suggestions into the computer. Jablonsky actually thinks he won the war. Swift acknowledges he couldn't leave a life or death decision to a computer, and ignored Jablonsky's recommendation. So Jablonsky didn't win the war, and

Mullins was motivated to write this story to show the world of the horrors that ran through a soldiers mind in Vietnam. This joins a bigger argument during that time of why the U.S. was in the war and how the media exposed that to civilians. Horrors that were written and seen on television put a bad reputation on the war even though it was for a good reason, to stop communism. Mullins only furthers this argument by giving examples of the horror he faced such as, “There are men piling up in body bags” (Mullins 2). Also Mullins visualized a scene for the audience such as, “A bunch of guys are losing blood” (Mullins 2). These situations can each give a person a different view and the view is not pretty. When the media was releasing videos of fighting it put pressure on Congress and on presidents at the time such as Nixon. Nixon got the brute force of the pressure because the war was near the end of his presidency. The Vietnam War was supported for the first few years because America is used to going into wars and