The Soldiers Home Analysis

War is something that changes someone and their live so much to even year after they are still affected by what they experienced and saw. A common theme in “Soldier's Home” and The Things They Carried is going to war, which is an experience that affects people emotionally, mentally and changed their ability to connect with people.

Through satire and irony using her perspective as an Iraqi woman, Dunya Mikhail personifies war as a machine, rather than the traditional masculine perspective of heroism on the battlefield. In “The War Works Hard” war is never ending; it is relentless and without mercy as it destroys everything in its path, leaving an endless generational wake of scars among the civilian victims caught in the zone that the war has chosen. The war scars forever.

“Soldier’s Home” is a story by Ernest Hemingway that symbolizes how a World War 1 veteran is faced with many difficulties when transitioning into society after war. Real life finds its way into Hemingway’s writing often mirroring some of his own challenges giving the reader a sense of familiarity. Most notably, Hemingway’s description of getting used to a life without the backdrop of war in “Soldier’s Home” shows credibility, most likely from his own experience of returning home from the battlefield.

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The article The Ending the War: The Push for National Reconciliation by David Blight, explains how they reunite their differences through avoiding the hard work to change the Union, to actually reconstruct the social order that was needed against the confederate hostility, but only continues to embrace their white Southern remembrance, for example songs like, A Southern Song Opposes Reconstruction and war memorials. The evolution of Memorial Day during its first twenty years was even a show of differences from the Northern and Southern perspective, Northerners result was the freedom of African-Americans and the preservation of the Union and the Southern version of Memorial Day were rooted in the resistance to the reconstruction. Nonexistence

Two northern boys in the novels, “Soldier’s Heart,” and “The Red Badge of Courage,” suffer through the journey and hardships, loss of loved ones, and war. The contrasts in these works are few, however the variances in stories minister support in helping each book to stand out, and separate from the other. The similarities between books are uncanny, so similar, in fact that throughout the duration of the novels differentiating the novels becomes increasingly problematic for the reader. Also, the similarities concerning the two books “Soldier’s Heart” and “The Red Badge of Courage” aid the reader in understanding the mind-set of a soldier during a war. The comparisons and differences of the

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”- President Harry S. Truman. An American is someone who shows bravery, courage, and takes all opportunities that come their way. America accepts immigrants from all of the world, but a true American is someone who shows bravery, courage, can use any obstacle as motivation, and uses every opportunity to rise as high as they are willing to work.

War is a dangerous game, many people would likely agree to this, however, very few have ever seen a battlefront. The truth is that war, no matter how awful we can imagine it, is always exponentially worse. In Timothy Findley’s The Wars, Robert Ross, the protagonist,­ faces a situation that he finds difficult to come to terms with, and when faced with a similar situation later on in the novel, he must take drastic measures to reconcile the uncertainties of the past situation. Timothy Findley suggests, through the life of Robert Ross, that one’s need to reconcile the uncertainties of past experiences dominate our actions when such situations come up again in our lives. In the words of Hiram Johnson, a US Senator during the First World War,

The article “Children On The Battlefield”by Marcie Schwartz describes the experiences of boys in the military during the Civil War. Boys under 18 signed up to fight in the war. Although they were underage, their parents, religious leaders, and schoolteachers supported their descions to enlist. Sometimes boys would lie about their ages or runned away and changed their names to enroll. When enlisted boys would become musicians,serve as powder boys,water carriers, ect. There were boys who would play music to use music to communicate orders during battle. Powder boys would follow rules to obtain their pay in position. Overtime they would become homesick. Young boys in the military had properly fitted uniforms,found it difficult to maintain

The initial reaction I received from reading Soldier's Home, and my feelings about Soldier's Home now are not the same. Initially, I thought Harold Krebs is this soldier who fought for two years, returns home, and is disconnected from society because he is in a childlike state of mind, while everyone else has grown up. I felt that Krebs lost his immature years, late teens to early 20's, because he went from college to the military. I still see him as disconnected from society, because there isn't anyone or anything that can connect him to the simple life that his once before close friends and family are living. He has been through a traumatic experience for the past two years, and he does not

Janke, the main character, likes to help the resistance. Because of her age, she isn't allowed to help with more dangerous things yet, so she helps by delivering some small things like false identity cards to people on her bike. After delivering something no longer needed to Aunt Anna, she goes to the tobacco shop with her best friend, Alie. While they're at the shop, Janke´s foot gets stepped on accidentally by a German soldier called Helmut. You could tell that Helmut´s a bit different from the way he reacts. The two girls then go to the butcher´s who gives them a task. Janke and Alie put up flyers about a German police officer, but the Germans caught on quickly. Seeing that the soldiers are looking for her, someone lets Janke come into his

Ellen comes to live with the Johansens when the Nazis begin to crack down on the Jews. One night Nazi soldiers come during the night, Annemarie remembers at the last second to take off Ellen’s Star of David necklace. During the whole time the soldiers are at the Johansen’s Annemarie has the necklace clutched tightly in her hand. When the soldiers are gone and Annemarie unclutches her hand she notices that the necklace left an imprint on her hand. This scene can be looked at as symbolism for the impact that Ellen’s family had on the Johansens, they will forever be in there memory because they have impacted their lives forever. The next day Annemarie overhears her father talking on the phone about what days are best for fishing and bringing cigarettes. Annemarie is confused because she is certain there are no more cigars left in the store. Little does she know, that the less she knows about the truth, the easier for her to be brave. For Ellen’s safety Annemarie, her sister, and her mother make a trip to see their Uncle Henrik. Annemarie learns that there has been a death in the family so there will be a funeral. Annemarie does not believe what she is told, she learns the truth that the Jews will be sent on a boat to Sweden for safety. The funeral is a cover-up for why there will be so many people at the house.

As the novel continues, Nazi soldiers become increasing more harsh and intrusive. IN chapter five, the German soldiers searched the Johansen's homes just before bedtime without their consent. AnneMarie showed remarkable ability to think strategically. The girls were already in bed when they heard the sound of heavy boots stomping just outside their door. AnneMarie (pg. 45) commanded Ellen, "Take your necklace off!" "I can't get it open," Ellen replies frantically. Just as AnneMArie hears the voice right outside their

It’s time to rejoice after the war. Everyone needs to get ready to welcome our soldiers home. We know that it is time to rejoice and welcome when in the commercial it says, “You’ve been missed. You’ve been needed. You’ve been cried for. Prayed for. You’ve been the reason we push on.”. If we are finally welcoming our soldiers home, then that must mean we are finally able to rejoice that the war is over. Another saying that answers the question, “Why?”, is “We wait. We hope. We pray. Until you’re home again.”. After all that time of us waiting, hoping, and pray we can finally welcome our soldiers home and rejoice of the war being over. After putting all our faith that everything will be okay and hopefully all of our loved ones will be coming

The story I found most interesting and decided to write about is Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home.” Hemingway writes a bizarre story depicting the cruel effects of war. War is the evilest event/element any human being can unfortunately be exposed to. The chaos and carnage which come as a result of these sometimes-senseless wars can cause traumatic and dark memories which can linger around in a person’s mind, altering their perspective for the rest of their lives. Hemingway certainly does a magnificent job in illuminating those exact effects throughout the story.