Who Is The Hurt Locker?

The word hurt locker comes from military slang that means bad and painful place. Right away the title of this poem catches the reader’s attention because people who served in the military can relate to the message and imagery of the poem. This poem is describing the life of a combat deployed soldier in Iraq or in war in general. It is trying to get the readers to believe and use their imagination when the poem states “Believe it when a twelve-year-old rolls a grenade into the room” (Kennedy, 2012

journey into The Hurt Locker, a critically acclaimed war movie written by Mark Boal and directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt). The quote was written by former New York Times war correspondent, Chris Hedges and it perfectly sets the stage for a story that depicts just how potent and addicting war can be (Corliss). The 2008 movie won six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Actor in a Leading Role (“Nominees & Winners”). The Hurt Locker is an exceptional

Opening the Hurt Locker In the poem “The Hurt Locker” the author Brian Turner, an Iraq war veteran, describes war how he views war after taking an active role in it. Several members of our class suggest that the final message of the “Hurt Locker” is duty versus morality. I agree to a certain extent, but I think there is a much bigger conflict with the author and the outside world. The author urges the reader to see war for what it really is. In his poem Turner says, “Believe it when you see it”

The Unending Revenge Published in 2008, The Forever War by Dexter Filkins compiles a series of vignettes that detail his encounters as a reporter in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Released a year after, director Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker also examines a harrowing account of the conflicts in Iraq. Both works poignantly present the unbridled violence that plague the region, and the futility of a war embedded within a vicious cycle of retaliation. Nevertheless, the portrayal of vengeance as a major

their trip into The Hurt Locker, a widely praised war film that has won various awards such as the golden globes in 2010 (IMDb). The film formed by Stamp Boal and composed by Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt) discharged in 2008. The Hurt Locker is a war film that is set in Baghdad, Iraq in the midst of the Iraq War in 2004 and fits in the venture and action kind. The plot is around a three man bomb defusal amass involving Jeremy Lee Renner who plays Staff Sargeant James, Anthony Dwane Mackie who plays Sanborn, and

As most of you know by now the movie The Hurt Locker won the Oscar for movie of the year, and this makes me very angry. My civilian friends keep asking me why I'm so mad, because most of them enjoyed watching it. Simply put it's because the movie is full of lies, exaggerations, and ugly people. 'But it's a movie' they say, 'of course it's not realistic'. That's strange.. because the back of The Hurt Locker box says 'Powerfully Realistic'. Yet this movie is about as far from realism that a movie

Lockers in Schools: Physical Discomforts and Unwieldy Loads Begone Decades ago, having lockers in school was common like most of the teen movies portray. Students would keep their textbooks and materials in the lockers and decorate the lockers with pictures or with artistic papers. However, getting rid of the lockers is a recent trend in American schools. Those schools which eliminated lockers argue that lockers are obsolete now since students do not use them anymore. Online textbooks are replacing

Civic and Cultural Literacy II 12 October 2011 Hurt Locker: An Addiction To War The Hurt Locker can give almost anybody the nerves with its numerous suspenseful moments. But what lies inside all the tension filled scenes is a much deeper meaning. Kathryn Bigelow stresses an important message in this Oscar-winning epic. Although the film depicts the gruesome horrors of war, Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker is not an anti-war film. The Hurt Locker is a film about James’s addiction to war because

Although The Hurt Locker details the emotional impacts of war on soldiers and occasionally breaks some male-role stereotypes, this does not necessarily make the film or the presentation of the characters feminist. The depiction of the soldiers generally holds true to standard male gender norms, even though the three main characters occasionally show emotion and weakness. For example, James’ friendship with Beckham, a boy who lingers around the base selling DVDs, is that of a father or older brother;

the use of various literary devices, such as imagery, repetition, and tragedy in their poems. The Hurt Locker by Brian Turner, and The Minefield by Diane Thiel. I believe that the poems are similar in theme because of the way they are written and what they both talk about. Both Turner and Tiel use imagery to convey the mutual theme of violence in their poems despite having different goals. The Hurt Locker uses horrific imagery in lines ten and eleven: "Believe it when a twelve-year old Rolls a grenade