To begin with, this is my favorite paragraph. I have lots of questions for you. So I wrote so many questions for you and the book. The first question I have is “Did Kory ever buy you a new wedding ring?” The second question is “How are your injuries today? How were they back then? The third question is “How were the Iraqi Soldiers? The fourth question is “How was the Iraq land? The fifth question is “What were the questions that the Iraqi Soldiers asked you when they caught you? The sixth question is “How was Troy? The Seventh question is “How is your life today?” The eighth question is “How is your daughter?”.The ninth question is “What jobs do you have know?” The tenth question is “Are you still married to Kory?” The eleventh question is
All of the sickness and under fed soldiers that just wanted to come home. Also, when the Creightons receive letters and Bill claims he didn't fire the shot that killed Tom and the small hospital that Shad stayed in when he was injured and when Jenny married him. There are many sad and depressing sides of the book when Tom dies and when the author describes Eb when he doesn’t look like the young healthy Eb. She shows that the war wasn’t just a big adventure like all of the young soldiers thought it was but a horror story full of death and
Walking to New York From Boston was when I thought that we would never win the battle against the British. I couldn’t believe that I was going to go to war with the British. The British had so much more experience than we did, There were some people who didn’t even have one bit of experience with weapons. Surely, I was nervous of going to battle. The whole time getting ready I thought about how much I’d miss my wife and are three children Lilia, beathanny, and Lucas. I thought to myself one day I won’t have to write to them, I can see them and tell them stories about the war. Right now all I need to think about is battling the British and surviving at the same time. When going to battle being intrepid we were
12. If you were to talk with the author, what would you ask him or her?
O'Brien presents the details of his story in chronological order. In the lengthy paragraphs, he incorporates many specific details such as his emotions, his surroundings, and his current situations. In his lengthy paragraphs, he also included short, fragmented sentences to lure in his audience to keep on reading. “Silly and hopeless.” (55) This three word sentence is not a complete thought and conveys a sense of fragmentation. This represents his confusion and loss of unity during this time period and at war. He uses flashbacks to better narrate and add a background to his story. The structure presents how much time has passed in between events. Tim O’Brien uses narration and description modes to further emphasize the struggles of going to war. “I spent the summer of 1968 working in an Armour meatpacking plant...it was like standing for eight hours a day under a lukewarm blood shower.” (41) This narration foreshadows his shame and embarrassment in the future by using an extended metaphor about war. He alludes to the audience that essentially, war is like a blood shower. The narrative mode included O’Brien referring to himself in the first-person point of view, having it take place in the past to help to reader understand the present, using dialogue between people, action and descriptions of events and
Walking From Boston to New York I thought that we would never win the battle against the British. I couldn’t believe that I was going to go to war with the British. The British had so much more experience than we did, There were some people who didn’t even have one bit of experience with weapons. Surely, I was nervous about going to battle. The whole time getting ready I thought about how much I’d miss my wife and our three children Lilia, Bethany, and Lucas. I thought to myself one day I won’t have to write to them, I can see them and tell them stories about the war. Right now all I need to think about is battling the British and surviving at the same time. Therefore, When going to battle being intrepid we
The Story has great ways of describing events of losing loved ones. The author words his story vividly and clear enough that people can accurately picture what he is saying while keeping the thoughts war, family love, and hope in the story.
In the class discuss there were multiple connections and perspectives of the war. They spoke about how like in the world we all have decisions to make and to see the impact you leave with whatever you do. Also, there was couple of symbolism thrown in the discussion, the symbol of the self harm happening with the soldiers. One soldier broke his own noise and another one wanted to take a perfectly working tooth out. Additionally, one thought is that the soldiers are trying to find a balance with all the war going on, wanting peace with violence all around them. The style of O’Brien in a chapter was repetitive and alliterate with his storytelling. He kept speaking about the story of the war and it was a way to explains how he feels. Moreover,
20) O’Brien tells how these young men were drafted which were constantly in fear, they wished to be there obliviously but war takes up all of one’s attention; it played a big role in their life, changing their tactics, personality and becoming a new person. O’Brien uses this to show the stressful moments in war where one has pressure to be alive and in this case to fit in with everyone else and feel part of something, in a lonely place such as the war.
I completely agree with you on the quiz questions! They seemed to keep me on track as well. I find it is easier for me to read the questions then read the passage, which is backward I know, but considering that I'm not a naturally talented reader this help. Thanks for your feedback, I enjoy reading why everyone else enjoys things puts things into a different perspective for me.
In her article “How Happy Are You and Why?,” Sonja Lyubomirsky argues that people have control over their own happiness. Lyubomirsky supports her claims with her interviews with happy people and scientific studies. Her purpose is to consider steps that people can take in order to become happier. She establishes an informal relationship with her audience of unhappy people.
How maybe he was a scholar and maybe his parents were farmers. Then O'Brien goes on to talk of maybe why this young man was in the army, and maybe why he was fighting; these are something’s that are taught in the schools. O'Brien states that the man may have joined because he was struggling for independence, juts like all the people that were fighting with him. Maybe this man had been taught from the beginning that to defend the land was a mans highest duty and privilege. Then on the other hand maybe he was not a good fighter, and maybe in poor health but had been told to fight and could not ask any questions. These reasons are all reasons that are taught in textbooks; they go along with the idea of the draft. Some people go fight because they want to and others go because they are told they have to. How do you tell these people apart in the heat of battle or when they are dead? The way that O'Brien starts to describe the young man as someone who was small and frail, and maybe had plans for a bright future puts sorrow in the readers heart, in that all his plans can not happen for him or maybe the family that is longing for his return. It also shows the regret that maybe going on in the killers’ mind. For O'Brien to be writing on how this young mans life has come to a sudden end and his plans for the future is over is intriguing. Then to add to that he had the story written through the eyes of the soldier that ended this young mans life. The
Most soldier’s current and past have seen how returning home is problematic and challenging. Using biographical and psychological critical reading strategies to analyze “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway, was the purpose of writing the text to help him and other soldiers learn how to cope with life after wartime.
A moment from this novel that lingered in my mind is when Kropp said this, '"I've made up my mind," he says after a while, "if they take off my leg, I'll put an end to it. I won't go through life as a cripple."' This lingered in my mind a lot. Kropp was no older then the age of twenty when this happened. It is sad that a young man like Kropp would even ever have to have thoughts of suicide because their leg was blown off. The war inflicted a lot of damage on the young soldiers lives and seemed to not benefit anyones life. Another thing that lingered in my head is this, "will make a grand feed. About twenty yards from our dug-out there is a small house that was used as an officers' billet. In the kitchen is an immense fireplace with two ranges,
The benefits of using medical cannabis to manage such conditions as chronic pain or anxiety have been proven through years of effective testing. Even as Canada moves to legalize recreational marijuana at the federal level, however, there are still many questions surrounding medical marijuana. Many doctors still feel uncomfortable authorizing cannabis as a solution. But the largest question for new patients is often, “Where can I get medical marijuana?” which in the age of the internet becomes, “Should I buy medical cannabis online?”
Have your eyes ever set on a barren land where even technology can’t reverse the damage we have caused? We care mostly for the present, but we must never forget to see to the future and in this case the deforestation of the Amazons. “Deforestation is considered the second largest anthropogenic source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere” (Song et al. 2). Each day we are wiping out miles of trees from one of our most diverse ecosystems in the planet, and one of our largest “lungs” in the world. At our rate of destruction of the rainforest, we would have inflicted in our future a great disservice, as the trees cut down would no longer give us clean air and more CO2 would pollute our air. CO2 can have a negative impact on our health. As we breathe in this air, it can lead to lung cancer and other diseases. By destroying the Amazon ecosystem we could drive many exclusive species that only live in the Amazon to extinction. Will we know the harm we have caused right away? Probably not, but we will definitely find out sooner rather than later. The cause of the Amazon deforestation is due to our need for wood to stay warm, and for developing countries to use it for fuel. Our top priority in conserving the Amazons is the unforeseen environmental impact that can be caused to our planet and to us. “Tropical deforestation also has other negative externalities, such as the loss of biodiversity, erosion, floods, and lowered water levels” (Jusys).