Summary Of The Hurt Locker By Brian Turner

His poem “What Every Soldier Should Know” acts as a kind of instruction manual for a foreign soldier in Iraq but still is able to put the reader directly into his shoes. He begins the poem with the second person to captivate the reader right away, “If you hear gunfire on a Thursday afternoon, it could be for a wedding, or it could be for you” (1-2). Turner gives the reader insight into the Iraqi culture of celebratory gunfire and how readily available guns are but also how a soldier never knows whether the gunshot is for them or just for celebration. He gives even further insight to the Iraqi culture and says to “Always enter a home with your right foot; the left is for cemeteries and unclean places.” because he believes that it is necessary to follow parts the Iraqi culture and conform to their customs (Turner 3-4). Turner then continues on and tells the reader what he believes is a better method to communicating with locals as a soldier

This is the line where I think the author’s main message comes across the most clear. The author never tells us what the hurt locker is. The meaning of the hurt locker can be interpreted many different ways, but I think the hurt locker is like another part of the war that the outside world does not see. While watching the news or reading the newspaper, people do not learn about the things that Turner describes in his poem and I think that was the author’s motivation behind writing this poem. I think the author wants us to not only learn about what the war is really like, but to also ask our own

The collection of poems “Theater”, “Water”, and “Safe House” by Solmaz Sharif shows the varied viewpoints of how war affects the speakers and how death is all too common in the midst of warfare. The author uses a spectrum of literary techniques to enhance the experience of the reader, so we can fully grasp the severity of each speaker’s plight. All of Sharif’s poems differ in form with the use of white space and indentations in “Theater”, colons in “Water”, and a style of abecedarian using the letter S in “Safe House”. While her diverse use of forms generate different emotions from the reader, they share the same notion of how violence is problematic. Each poem has a unique outlook to the sight of war: “Theater” being in the position of a victim and an assailant of war, “Water” explaining a war mission and fatalities in terse terms, and “Safe House” as an observer of an activist against war. Sharif’s strategy to exemplify the effects of how war affects the victim and the civilian is particularly critical because mass media tends to hide the collateral damage of war and only illustrates why we should attack the “enemy”. Another approach the author uses to critique the speakers central conflicts is by arranging words from the US Department of Defense 's Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, to concur with the message of the several ways war influences the lives of those who are unwillingly encompassed by it. Sharif uses poetry as an outlet to show the underlying tone

The movie hurt locker written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow. It displays the war in middle east vividly. The story began when the bomb tech team leader Sergeant Thompson was killed in an accident. Sergeant James was there to replaced him and the movie was reflecting on various conflicts that the tech team has encountered. Although hurt locker alludes to the typical hollywood heroism and patriotism, in fact, it actually suggested how war is terrible and how it destroy people by delivering 3 sub ideas- how weak and small a person’s life is, the misunderstanding between 2 cultures, and the conflict between responsibility and “addiction”.

Illumination Rounds offers the perfect template to teach my CO about poetry. With its cache of poetic devices such as imagery, hyperbole, conflict, and symbols, Brian Turner attempts to portray a veteran’s experience after coming home from deployment. In especially memorable moments throughout the poem, the poetic devices’ relation to the content of the poem forms embodied meaning and brings light to the 21st century veterans’ war experiences to show the long lasting effect of post-traumatic stress disorder caused by the Iraqi War.

The word hurt locker comes from military slang that means bad and painful place. Right away the title of this poem catches the reader’s attention because people who served in the military can relate to the message and imagery of the poem. This poem is describing the life of a combat deployed soldier in Iraq or in war in general. It is trying to get the readers to believe and use their imagination when the poem states “Believe it when a twelve-year-old rolls a grenade into the room” (Kennedy, 2012, p.532). The vast majority of people cannot imagine a twelve-year-old carrying a grenade and using it to harm others. “The Hurt Locker” verse is not a rhyme poem. It is a poem that can make the readers understand the dangers soldiers face in war. “The Hurt Locker” can be viewed different by every reader depending on experience. Veterans view of “The Hurt Locker” is an imaginary locker where soldiers put their emotions the images that traumatized them things they do not want to deal with again. The locker is where one must put their feelings and emotions aside and remember that those people are out to kill you. As a combat soldier, one must collect souls and let God decide their faith.

Duffy uses four regular, six line stanzas to impose order amongst the “agonies in black-and-white,” the photographer has to not only develop as a part of his job, but to psychologically grapple with in the remainder of his life. Similarly, Owen has employed three regular, four line stanzas, however this structural order emulates the removal of freedom that comes with youth, expressing the corruption of the soldiers’ ability to return to their innocence. Duffy ends each stanza in a rhyming couplet to strengthen the routine placed amidst the chaos of war and drive home her point of the psychological aftermath of war on everyone involved. Contrastingly, Owen utilises pararhymes – “flash / flesh”, “teeth / death” – to denote the inaptness of young boys being armed with weapons, forced to soon mature to escape their foreseeable death, never to return as innocent youths. Duffy’s use of sibilance – “spools of suffering” – causes the reader to hiss words, emphasising the prevalent callousness of war. Similarly, Owen has incorporated sibilance – “Sharp with the sharpness” – to augment the malevolency associated with weaponry, disengaging young soldiers from their innocence, never to be the same again. Owen

Accordingly, war has always deplored a person in to the events that took place while in battle. Consequently Turner's poem touched the hearts of war veterans since they too felt this at some point if they do not still. Soldiers were merely slaves to the war in Iraq. Wherefore as the labors in the past were slaves

The Hurt Locker is a winner of six academy awards, including best picture, best director, and best original screenplay. This film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and the main character William James is played by Jeremy Renner a well-known actor, and also singer. In chapter nine, the text briefly discusses that a majority of these modern films based about the war in Iraq, focus on post-traumatic stress disorder, other known as PTSD. The Hurt Locker, expands the knowledge of viewers at home to focus on PTSD and its effects and the experience of what war is like.

Miller examined the poem further to find Owen’s message to the reader, claiming, “In the final stanza, the poem once again shifts, now from the poet's dream to his address to a reader, presumed to be a person on the homefront who has experienced nothing of the horror of war and who still believes that war is glorious and ennobling” (Miller). In agreement with the statement of Owen aiming to dissuade the british population from running into the war blindly, Miller refers to Owen’s audience and how he set the poem out as a warning and message of what war truly consists of. Owen writes in an unsettling form and structure, fluctuating the poem to be slow and fast, contributing to make the reader who never experienced the hardships of war, and trying to shepherd them away from their pro war mentality. Analyzing the poem, Miller explains, “ Although he cannot literally bring this haunting about, through his poem and its grotesque details, he can force his reader to confront the ugly reality of war that masks behind fine phrases and edifying sentiments. Thus, Owen lingers over the sounds and sight of the dying body, destroyed by the poisonous gas,” (Miller) he wants the reader to know Owen did not shy away from detail and wanted to discomfort his reader. The poem

Brian Turner’s work traces back in time into Iraq, were he is enlisted into the military, he even underlies the struggles back at home and in Iraq. Brain Turner uses a unique sense of writing that shows others what wartime was like. In his technique of writing he uses multiple stories to describe how we should put ourselves in someone’s shoes during life in the military. During this entire story Brian Turner has trouble with the reality of life which makes his own life difficult and very lonely.

Wilfred Owen (18913-1918), ‘Dulce et Decorum Est', this poem shows and it illustrates the horrors of the famous World War I of the horrific figures that scary point of the words he uses. The title of this poem are the latin words and for the first words 'Dulce' which means, 'It is sweet and Right'. The full saying, which ends the poem, 'Dulce et decorum est', it means the sweet and right to fight and die for one country. This was the meaning that, he was commonly understood and used widely in the advertising at the starting of the War. It made the war out to be honourable and bold.

He recognises the dehumanisation of the soldiers by comparing them to cattle and reinforces the waste of life happening throughout the war. As well as how inhumane the bodies of the soldiers were disrespectfully disposed. “The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells” is spat violently when read aloud and enforces the concept that religion has no part in war. It is not consolation for those dying under the persuasion of God and glory. The line contrasts the heavenly choir performed under the name of religion with the heavy “suttering” of the rifle which they were surrounded by. The religious images throughout this poem are symbolic of the futility and inadequacy of religion. In regards to the war, but also the sanctity of life and

An example of imagery used in Owens poem is found on line 6, ‘But limped on, Blood-shot’ This quote from the poem shows that the soldiers were all injured and tired. This creates a mood of anger by showing that there was no mercy on any of the soldiers that were sent out to war. By slowing it down, the reader feels a mood of anger, towards the people who sent them and the ones they are fighting. The comma that has been used makes the pace slow, making it very intense and adding to the mood of anger. The words ‘blood shot’ shows that they were in a lot of trouble, either in pain or incredibly tired. It is clear that Owen has used the imagery in his poem to show an atmosphere and mood of anger. Owen has used a variety of diverse content adding to the mood and atmosphere of mood throughout his poem. This has been noticeably used in the last stanza on lines 25-27, ‘My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old Lie, Dulce et Decorum Est Pro patria mori’ This quote that Owen has used in his poem, shows how angry he is towards the government for lying to all the people, saying that is it good and proper to die for your country. Owen says that it is ‘the old lie’ because the government has been saying this for a very long time, and he says that it is now time for it to stop. It has been seen that Owen has used a variety of imagery and his content throughout his poem to create and atmosphere and mood of

The immeasurable horrors of war can only be blinded by the truth of those who haven’t seen or heard of the reality of war. This is exposed by Owen’s bitterness in “Dulce et Decorum Est”, to broaden responders in understanding the horrific experiences of war and the impacts on ordinary soldiers. At the beginning of the poem, hyperbolic exaggeration and metaphor emphasise how men are physically injured, “coughing like hags” and “limped on, blood-shod”. This enables the responder to instantly imagine the horrific conditions of the limping progress of soldiers. The dramatic