The Role Of War In 'Her Privates We'

Through the distress of a single man, Jarrell is able to depict the fears of a lonely soldier in an extremely vulnerable position, and invites us into the heinous reality of war which forces us to question our impressions of soldiers having no fear yet not questioning their bravery. War can produce gruesome situations that can cause even the bravest men to face their fears, but it is how they deal with this fear that is the important part. Ball turret gunners were courageous warriors. They were fully aware of how susceptible to death they were, nevertheless, they would continue to fight time after time. WWII was a dreadful episode in human history that killed millions of people, and its bloodshed is described by the UN Charter as a scourge that “has brought untold sorrow to mankind”. Jarrell had served in the military himself, thus he knew - at least to some extent -

Our history books continue to present our country's story in conventional patriotic terms. America being settled by courageous, white colonists who tamed a wilderness and the savages in it. With very few exceptions our society depicts these people who actually first discovered America and without whose help the colonists would not have survived, as immoral, despicable savages who needed to be removed by killing and shipping out of the country into slavery. In her book, The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, Jill Lepore tells us there was another side to the story of King Philip’s War. She goes beyond the actual effects

Walter Dean Myers uses many military terms in this novel. When you hear words such as squad, MRE, or Kevlar you know that the war is real and is a serious matter. This creates a serious mood throughout the book because you feel like you are listening to a veteran of war share his story from

War alters Cross as a person emotionally. He knows he cannot keep running and he instead begins to take his roles as a leader more seriously. Something that he must do if he and his platoon are going to survive.

There is no time for fear, yet he is submitting to all these cowardly thoughts and feelings. Shame is deeply impacting how he thinks, how he is imagining life in the war, how he will imagine his life after the war. This shame is ruining his thoughts and eating him up as the theme shows just how easily someone can be

Virginia's Private War by William Blair and Tara Revisited by Catherine Clinton seek to primarily explain why the Confederacy lost the Civil War. Virginia's Private War examines this question by focusing on the Virginia home front and the difficulties faced in trying to wage war as a slave society. Tara Revisited examines the question of the Confederate defeat specifically from the perspective of southern women. It pays special focus to contemporary conceptions of the antebellum South, Civil War, and reconstruction. Tara Revisited highlights that much of Southern history from the mentioned periods was romanticized and marketed through music, print media, and film. Clinton believes that

Due to the problems and struggles woman had, women begin to break apart from the standards that they were designated to have and started taking control of the situations “As the war began, women transformed peacetime domestic chores and skills into wartime activities, becoming the unofficial quartermaster corps of the Continental Army and of their state regiments” (Berkin XV). During the war Carol shows the battle that women went through “Eliza Wilkinson captures the feelings of many women, left alone to face the brutality and violence of the war” (Pg.36). The roles women played during the war changed remarkably. After the war Carol clarifies how the lives of women alternated. The book covers an extensive period of time and this becomes important because it starts by setting the movement for women in the war, it explains how the war was for women, and then the aftermath for women after winning the war.

The movie follows Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) and his squad as they go on a hellish journey through war in order to save a mother's only living son. On this journey they experience many nightmare-like events, such as horrific physical injuries and emotional damage, that most people cannot even fathom. The movie starts out with U.S. soldiers being physically sick and emotionally distraught while riding inside amphibious landing craft. These soldiers are becoming ill over the event that they are about to experience which is the notorious battle of "D-Day". These images of the soldiers becoming physically just imaging what could happen during the battle are a look into what many soldiers experience before they enter into battle. Saving Private Ryan is the first, and most accurate, depiction of war to date. The movie shows the emotional tolls that soldiers experience, like in the landing craft, but it more thoroughly displays the physical violence that goes on in war. Just minutes after those soldiers in the landing craft are seen becoming ill, they are storming the beaches of Normandy, and many end up dying horrible deaths. The images of soldiers being violently injured and the excessive gore in this scene is used to further show just how horrible war truly is.

This concept is clearly captured within the novel when Stephen states “This is not a war, this is an exploration of how far men can be degraded” (Faulks 145). During battle, men have to let go of what they once believed to be right and just in order to survive. Notably, this issue presents itself when the enemy evolves from a conceptual being into a human, which causes soldiers to realize that they are killing men who are no different from them. In order to such avoid moral conflicts, soldiers had to detach themselves from the harsh realities of the war. For instance, Jack, unlike Weir and Brennan, forces himself to disconnect from his emotions in order to avoid shell shock.

The horrors of war were depicted by the constant threats to the characters lives, the brutal conditions of the bad weather, hunger and combat. Soldiers had to battle the enemy along with nature. Soldiers would become stressed, paranoid and start losing their personalities. As Captain Miller says, “I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.” This quote shows the mental toll on these soldiers.

"It was not necessarily that I had `found myself' during the war, but the conflict had certainly put a kind of buffer zone between the fault lines in my head." Though it is interesting to see an insight of his personal life, people looking for more of an insight of the war could get annoyed at how much personal writing there is. It’s not the big adventure story some people may be looking for. This novel really lets you see the cruelty and brutality of the war.

Saving Private Ryan is a film staged within World War II, during which an incredible mission to locate and bring home Private Ryan is launched in behind enemy lines within Europe. The return of Private Ryan is hoped to increase moral in the homeland and benefit combat efforts. Captain Miller is in charge of the reluctant team tasked with the rescue mission of Private Ryan, not knowing where he is at or if he is even alive. The company finally finds Private Ryan even after several enemy encounters and finding another soldier named “Private Ryan”. Once Private Ryan is located they give him the news that his three brothers were killed while fighting in the war. Private Ryan chooses not to go home and continues to fight in the war.

Gender, Trauma, and Culture in The Return of the Soldier In British fictionist Rebecca West’s 1918 novella, The Return of the Soldier, the author effectively offers keen insight into the realistic and devastating psychological and societal impact that the trauma of World War I has on the minds of both genders; this strain is analogous to feeling dead internally. This story depicts the realistic tragedy of how the illusion of someone collides with the reality of another, while exposing gender differences as far as cultural aspects and societal expectations, highlighting the traumatic effects of war on not only the returning soldier, but on the other female characters connected to him in various ways, as well. Although everyone is hurting from the war, women and men experience and try to cope with the trauma differently. Things are not always what they seem as the boundaries of what is considered socially and culturally acceptable at that time, will always function as asymptotes that bar the two spheres of gender to ever truly comprehend about the trauma of

The film’s plot is America and Britain are at war because Britain taxed America and we had no say in it. We learn that Gabriel, Benjamin Martin’s son joins the militia to fight the redcoats. Two years have passed since Gabriel has been in the war. One night Gabriel arrives at Benjamin house. He is bruised and battered. They help save all the militiamen. While he is doing that the Redcoats come to Benjamin's house. Colonel William Tavington shoots one of his sons and captures the others. That Is when Benjamin decides to join the war. He takes back his son Gabriel and they go to recruit militia men for their army. Benjamin and his son end up taking down tons of red coats. They are trying to keep them from going to South Carolina because the French

Violet was confused on which path to take, Violet has to choose between a chance to be free or to stay with her owner and not get in trouble. It was a hard decision. She wanted to be free but also if the British lose the war she could be in very big trouble with her owner.