War Is A Very Sensitive Topic That Includes Many Emotions.

It was difficult for women, for the men too old to fight and the boys to young but so much wanting to fight, to understand exactly what the war meant and what it was like because they hadn't experienced. This is why I find Barker's book so powerful, because she captures the traumas and the devastating effects of fighting without so much as one chapter being set in France. Though it may seem detached to some, the book encapsulates the effects of the war but back at home, making them all the more painful and real, because the most painful part of these effects is coping with them whilst trying to adjust to life and people back home. Barker explores the confused and

The word "war" is always horrible to man especially with who has been exposed to. It is destruction, death, and horrible suffers that has been with all man's life. In the short story "In Another Country", Ernest Hemingway shows us the physical and emotional tolls of the war as well as its long-term consequences on man's life. He also portrays the damaging effects that the war has on the lives of the Italians and even of the Americans.

The topic of war is hard to imagine from the perspective of one who hasn't experienced it. Literature makes it accessible for the reader to explore the themes of war. Owen and Remarque both dipcik what war was like for one who has never gone through it. Men in both All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum” experience betrayal of youth, horrors of war and feelings of camaraderie.

Nobody likes the war and it is really a difficult topic to write on it. Louisa May Alcott expressed her personal experience with a dying war soldier in such a beautiful way that it extract the sympathy and emotions of the audience and readers. In her excerpt “Hospital Sketches”, she writes about a young, brave and bachelor soldier named John, who participated in the civil war in 1863. She encountered him in an army hospital, while working there as a nurse. He was brought there with the fatal injuries. Using her writer’s experience, she presents an emotional retelling of an story, which advances an argument. She gets her readers emotionally involved in this narrative. By using diction, imagery, selection of details and her rhetorical

It is a well known fact that experiencing war changes people; there is an innocence that is forever lost. In Tim O’Brian’s, “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”, Mary Anne Bell is an unusual example of the innocence that is lost in war because unlike the rest of the soldiers, she is a woman. Mary Anne’s transformation from innocent “sweetheart” to fierce warrior left readers with mixed emotions because although Mary Anne felt at peace with her transformation, she was also disconnected from reality.

War is always the worst tragedy of mankind in the world. We, as human beings, were experienced two most dolorous wars that were ever happened in our history: World War I and World War II. A young generation actually does not know how much hardship the predecessors, who joined and passed through the wars, undergo. We were taught about just how many people died in the wars, how much damage two participations in the wars suffered or just the general information about the wars. We absolutely do not know about the details, and that’s why we also do not know what the grief-stricken feeling of people joining in the wars really is. But we can somewhat understand that feeling through war novels, which describe the truthfulness of the soldiers’ lives, thoughts, feelings and experiences. All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, which takes World War I as background, is the great war novel which talks about the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the hopeless of these soldiers about the “future” – the time the war would have ended.

Howells' short story sheds light on the unreasonable outlook of the literal world from a perception fueled by standards of romanticism. Personified through Editha Balcom, a shallow, impersonal, perfection-seeking young woman, the influence of the ideal is emphasized through her self-centered demeanor, lofty expectations, and naive character. Early on, It is evident that Editha lives in a world of her own, unaware of wrong from right, rather, she only acknowledges whether an act is heroic or not. She looks at her fiancé, George Gearson, a humble, rational, peaceful young man, with this exact sentiment upon his weary announcement of the beginning of war. As expected, she calls the otherwise brutal act of war "glorious!" (Howells 168) in a frenzy of emotion. Editha seeks a perfect man who should return from war having done "something worthy to have won her" in other words, somebody to "be a hero, her hero" (169). As Editha prepares herself to relinquish George to war, the reader witnesses the true debilitating forces of one who is congenial with the ideal. Through dramatic and emotional outpourings to George by letter, her writing evinces to be the quintessence of unrealistic virtues; one in particular filled with fluffy, over

He captures “ a gidding feeling, in a way, except there was the dreamy edge of impossibility to it-like running a dead end maze-no way out-it couldn’t come to a happy conclusion”, in order to express how war can make one feel trapped (44). As a reader, this passage painted a picture that made me immersed into the story and experiencing the nervousness, claustrophobia and endlessness faced by the

The war was happening in their own backyards and was disrupting families and homes. This letter brings to my attention what women were enduring as well. Henrietta writes to the General about the harm he is bringing to helpless women and children. She goes on to write about the burning of two homes and mothers and children being turned out of their doors. This letter reveals how heartbreaking and troublesome this era was. Men were fighting against each other in their own country, soldiers were dying leaving women widowed with children, and houses were being burnt down for purpose of war.

The novel, “All Quiet On The Western Front”, centers its self around the events that shape the lives of the soldiers involved in the German army, of World War I. The novel takes focus on the actions of a young, enlisted soldier, named Paul Bäumer, who, through his words, gives the audience a window into the hardship that he, and his classmates, are bearing, while in combat. The novel not only delivers the emotional aspect of the fight, but also, sheds light on the real life, gruesome situations surrounding the lives of the soldiers, to ultimately, tell of a generation of young men who must live, but who must now also, inhabit a form of self mercilessly annihilated by battle.

War has existed for arguably as long as mankind, and many people have seen the effects of war. Although it is very hard for the average civilian to understand the full effects of war, there are many authors and filmmakers who are able to use both their experience and fine techniques to help give a small glimpse into the world both during and after war. Films and texts such as the short story “Sandcastles Overseas”, and the movie American Sniper show the various types of loss that soldiers face both on the battlefield and after through the use of vivid details, and pathos. Although both of these texts are very effective in showing the loss faced by soldiers, the novel Going after Cacciato by Tim O’brien is the most powerful in portraying the

These two war novels All Quiet on the Western Front and A Farewell to Arms are both novels that are seen as being anti-war. Both novels express the negative side of the war in all aspects. Nonetheless, each novel has its own indications of its opposition with the war. The characters in the novels experience the war through different perspectives and through different experiences. One novel can be seen as a love story and the other novel shows the untruthfulness behind the war. I will be talking about each of the novels and how they are seen as being anti-war and will also be comparing and contrasting the differences of each novel and its relations of being anti-war.

For most women, however, the experience of war was masked and covered behind nationalism and propaganda. Although much of the book takes place on the front, hints of what is happening back home are frequently given, mostly through letters received by Smithie from her mother and through the character of B.F. Mrs. Evans-Mawning, throughout the novel, serves as a figure of the worst kind of feminine nationalism, boasting about Roy but not having the edge on Smithie's mother because she has only her one son to sacrifice as opposed to Smithie's larger family. Smithie also notes that she is sick of reading positive news about wonder war girls in the news, comparing her experience to having a baby because once you get started "your trapped in it." (Smith, pg. 134). Women on the home front were being coddled into believing everything was going well because this was still a time in which men saw women as more sensitive then they were intelligent and therefore needed to be protected (Thebaud, pg. 95). This sort of "sugar-coating" gave women false impressions about the war, which was particularly disappointing to those who enlisted. In one letter from Smithie's younger sister, Trix, she writes "Why the dickens they dress you up in a pretty cap and make you think you're going to smooth the patients fevered brow beats me hollow." (Smith, pg. 84). Another letter in the book that is very reflective of home front feelings is the one Smithie receives from B.F, who

When soldiers go to war they can lose their identity among an endless group of soldiers. Soldiers can be sent to war without knowing what they are fighting for. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque shows how war slowly breaks down its soldiers both physically and mentally. As people grow up they see the world at its best and worst and develop their unique identity of their values and passions. War strips a soldier of this identity and emotion.

“So prying and insidious were the fingers of the European War” suggests the all encompassing nature of the war. No matter how much people might think that they are sheltered, no aspects have been left untouched. Once the war starts even something as personal as the “geranium bed” is destroyed, nothing is spared. The most private as well as public spaces are intruded, damaged and scarred by the war. War affected not just soldiers but also civilians like the ‘cook’, Lady Bexborough and Miss Kilman. Miss Kilman had to struggle to