War takes effect on almost every aspect of a community. It can alter the way we think about fellow people, it can create prejudices or injustices, it can destroy huge amounts of land, culture, and other tangible parts of a community and it can drastically drop the number of people within a community. Timothy Findley makes a point to show his readers the amount of deaths have occurred as one reads the novel. Effect this has is to remind people that war is not simply an event in which many good stories have came out of it, it is a time of tragedy and the author makes a point to highlight the importance of recognizing the number of men and women who have dedicated their lives to defending their country. Thousands of people die in the war and hundreds …show more content…
This quote is to put emphasis and equal importance into each live that had been lost. Furthermore, this quote opens the readers eyes into realizing the real impact the war has had on the number of people alive on this earth, one can only imagine the amount of losses in a community, losses in jobs, increases of broken families there had been as a result of the 557,017 people dead. Although there is Roberts story going on, one must take into account the amount of stories (lives) that had to have been ended as a result of the casualties of war. Next, as a result of propaganda and a not-so-humble pride in one’s own country, in times of war, society bands together and creates prejudice towards the enemy. This not only encourages, but promotes hateful thoughts and actions towards the enemies race. Due to this, society as a whole is affected since they now become more hateful and less openminded towards creating a solution to the issue they are fighting …show more content…
At once there was a shot. Robert fell.” (Findley 83). Here, Levitt represents all of society, he sees the enemies as direct threats and he must always be on attack mode when they are near. While on the contrary, Robert represents reality where he realizes the reality of the war and sees the humanity in all people whether they are enemy or allies. Findley’s message here is that although one of the effects of war is to hate one another, people must fight the urge to hate and remember that the war is full of human beings one just as vulnerable as the other. Even though the war had extensive effects on the people of a community as a whole, it also has immense effects on the landscape and the actual land communities are built on. In the novel, Robert returned to his home town and barely recognizes what he’s seen. Everything seems to have changes, there is destruction and all the city had turned into a city that feeds the war (for example factories to make weapons). This is often what takes place when a country is at war, changes in what products are being made and most work efforts are to aid in the
This quote in the first chapter of the book sets the overall tone. The author Tim O’Brien uses his language through out the book in an extremely straightforward manner. He does not sugar coat the way going to war and being in a war is. He does not use stories of heroes,
The way war can affect something is the division in families. In My Brother Sam Is Dead, Father kicks out Sam because he would want him to go to school than go to war with a chance of death. “Go, Sam. Go.
“People can only be found in what they do.(1)” That’s what Timothy Findley believed in despite having health illness and dropping out of 10th grade. He found himself in writing as Timothy Findley “published eight more novels, three short-story collections, and two memoirs” (2) Impressive isn’t it? Timothy Irving Frederick Findley was a successful Canadian author with a victorious childhood, many accomplishments and contribution to Canadian literature throughout his life.
First, the reader must understand just what makes a good "war story". The protagonist of the novel, Tim O'Brien, gives us his
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.
Along with not seeing the bigger picture soldiers lost their ordinary lives due to the war and the contrast was so different between pre and post war that it was hard to cope with life for the men fighting in the war. “For Kien, the most attractive, persistent echo of the past is the whisper of ordinary life, even though the sounds of ordinary life have been washed away by the long storms of war. It is the whispers of friends and ordinary people that are the most horrifying.”(63) The strongest emotions occur as the story unfolds and life takes over from childhood fantasies, destroying individuals and their families as a whole society is remade for instance Kien’s sweetheart before the war. Kien abandons his lover and instead spends the next years plodding through the jungle where everything dies. "no jungle grew again in this clearing. No grass, no plants" (26). He had no true friends and he learned not to fear death but rather wish it. When war ends he has a struggle to rebuild that was once loss, he can no longer see the good of things while he slowly goes insane with out love and hope and of course no sweetheart to aid him. A very sad and classical effect of a war that was worthless to its soldiers and people.
Another point that the author creates about the negative aspects of war is that there is never an abundant supply of food to support the well-being of all the men out there in the war. In the novel, the men who were used to eating decent meals every day before the war face severe hardships because in the army, they do not receive opulent nor tasty rations. “Long time since you’ve had anything decent to eat, eh?” Kat asks one of the [new recruits]. “For breakfast, turnip-bread, ㅡlunch, turnip-stew……it’s nothing new for it to be made of sawdust.” (Remarque 36) If these poor soldiers had better nourishments and more rest, the already-harsh environment would have been easier to survive. Many more recruits have actually died from a lack of sleep and food than from actual hand-to-hand combats. Another issue about the war is the complete loss of sanitation, or hygiene. “We must look out for our bread. The rats have become more numerous lately because the trenches are no longer in good condition.” (Remarque 101, 102) Because it is very unclean and pathogens float all over the place, various soldiers have deceased from an infection somewhere in the body. Maybe, just maybe, if the army had more suitable circumstances for the men in the war, fewer soldiers would have died.
Contrast is an integral part of everyday life. Without contrast, everything becomes one-dimensional and bland. In a traumatic experience, such as during a war, the very nature of it creates and amplifies these contrasts within the human spirit. Timothy Findley’s The Wars is an excellent example of how contrast is created. Some examples of these contrasts are kindness and cruelty, courage and cowardice, but the most important contrast created by Findley in the novel is the one between loyalty and betrayal.
The effects of war on Billy represent the effects war has on humanity, which warp the mind and ruin the person. The debate of war is present in the novel in Vonnegut’s word choice, depicting the often unnecessary
War has the ability to destroy not only countries and society, but families and individuals as well. Adverse effects are often the outcome of a war. It is not looked at in a positive way and often causes conflict. Through the works of Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and the 1992 Welsh film Hedd Wyn the effects of war are made apparent. All of them express their representations of war differently; however, the works have many similarities as well.
A motif in the novel is that the soldiers are basically animals. They now have instincts like animals, and they live like animals. They only have one pair of clothes and they have to scavenge for food and materials. The begin to rely on their senses to survive on the front. This is significant because it shows what the war has done to all these young men. They’ve been changed for the worse and will never be the same.
The world chose to ignore war and it was only a reality to the soldiers fighting for their own lives. The passage brings forth the emotion and alienation the soldiers felt during and after the war. While the soldiers were hiding in a bunker in the unfriendly jungle of Vietnam, life continued without a second thought or concern. It was almost as if it was two completely different worlds that coexisted without the acknowledgement of the other which caused turmoil for the soldiers throughout the novel.
With eight and a half million lives lost, war became a inconvenience to many citizens who were done with land disputes and fighting. In Document 6 the writer explains how inhuman the human race becomes during total war, and the death and despair he witnesses during these times. This shows how the War was taking it toll on citizens lives and the want for an end to the constant battles was longed
Central messages in World War One-era poetry testify to the growing sense that war is a senseless endeavor. For instance, Wilfred Gibson writes about the psychological detachment that a soldier must feel in order to kill another human being. The narrator of "Back" states that it wasn't I / But someone just like me, / Who went across the sea / And with my head and hands / Killed men in foreign lands"¦ / Though I must bear the blame, / Because he bore my name." The narrator conveys his guilt with palpable imagery and direct diction. He is to blame for the death of someone's son, brother, or father; and yet
(AGG) In the book, Under the Persimmon Tree, the author really shows how people’s lives can be devastated by war. (BS-1) Many families were left homeless due to the bombings in the Afghan War. (BS-2) Hundreds of people lost family members in the war. (BS-3) The main characters in this story, Najmah, Nur and Nusrat, victims of this war, decided the only place they could recover from the horrors they experienced was to return to the only home they knew. (TS) War can have many impacts on a person’s life; sometimes just by helping a person make tough decisions or by destroying one’s life completely.