Why Do Soldiers Live On The Home Front?

To be engaged in war is to be engaged in an armed conflict. Death is an all too ordinary product of war. It is an unsolicited reward for many soldiers that are fighting for their country’s own fictitious freedom. For some of these men, the battlefield is a glimpse into hell, and for others, it is a means to heaven. Many people worry about what happens during war and what will become of their loved ones while they’re fighting, but few realize what happens to those soldiers once they come home. The short stories "Soldier's Home” by Ernest Hemingway and "Speaking of Courage” by Tim O'Brien explore the thematic after effects of war and how it impacts a young person's life. Young people who

World War I was a great loss both physically and emotionally. It was a conflict between the Allies and the Central Powers from 1914 to 1918. More than 15 million people were killed in battled, making it one of the most deadly conflicts in history. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria- Hungary was seen as the trigger of the war. The war was described as a world war, a total war, and a modern war. A world war because it involved the whole world. A total war because people used maximum resources for the purpose of the war. A modern war because the people used technological and industrial mobilization.

Imagine you’re lying on the muddy, damp Earth and all around you can hear the screams of people you know dying. Shells explode, bullets race through the air, and poisonous gas seeps around you, all with the intent to harm you in some way. Yet, you willingly put yourself in that position day after day, year after year. The question surrounding this situation is, why? Who would be masochistic enough to choose to put their lives in danger and live in the most perilous environment possible? Two very different books give us insight into the thoughts of the soldiers who continuously put themselves in these environments. Your Death Would Be Mine by Martha Hanna and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque lets us into the minds of Paul Pireaud and Paul Baumer as they try to survive life as a soldier in the Great War. I argue that Pireaud and Baumer had very different reasons for continuing to fight despite having suffered beyond belief. In this paper I will analyze how the varying degrees of patriotism, brotherhood, family life at home, and age affected how these two men endured the treacherous life on the front of World War I.

The psychologist Sigmund Freud once said, “Because every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will.” He initially stated this when he was corresponding with Albert Einstein via letter. This quote is also a great explanation of the events that take place during war that people chose to not recognise. War is terrible, and no matter how hard we try, nothing will change that. Erich Maria Remarque shows us that soldiers have endured dreadfully throughout World War I in his book “All Quiet on the Western Front”. The character in the book, Paul Baumer, endures through the tragedies of war with some of his old schoolmates as well as new comrades that he meets along the way. They survive through all of the tragedies together, but in the end, the war made them lose their friendships as well as their lives. The reality is that war comes with consequences while it destroys people, and there is nothing that will ever be able to change that. The book “All Quiet on the Western Front” shows how war comes destroys people's lives with its consequences through three of its themes: the importance of comradery, the loss of innocence, and the horrors and brutality of war.

The soldiers face loneliness, isolation, the heavy burden of fear, and the weight of their reputations. The soldiers carry such a heavy weight from the past, in the present, and for the future. Even after the war, the psychological burdens the men carried during the war continues to define them. Those who survive the war carry guilt, grief, and confusion.

World War 1 changed the world around it. More men fought than one could comprehend. World War 1 almost destroyed an entire generation of men. The battlefield for Australians were lined with trenches filled with disease, pests and the fallen where they had medical aid. They experienced traumas not yet known commonly at all. The war was not embellished for its inhumanity in its time but as we see now the men and women who helped with the war effort lived with fear of death, disease and infection.

No matter where you live in the world, there is always countries fighting and there is always people gone fighting to protect their country. Those people who care about may be a mom, a dad, a brother or sister, who a risking their life for you. In the short story, Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway; the main character Howard Krebs has just return to his hometown in Oklahoma, after fighting in Europe. Coming back from war is very hard, no only for Krebs but for anyone who has fought. He basically loses connection with everyone because his PTSD is extremely cruel, to the point he is depressed. “..Don’t you love your mother, dear boy?’ ‘No,’ Krebs said.” His PTSD had gotten so bad that he lost complete control of his feelings. By Krebs losing total control of his emotions,

One example of the differences in soldier’s experiences was the Eastern and Western Front battles. These were two very different battles, the Eastern was much larger and faster while the Western was very slow and was based predominately on trench warfare. Because of this, soldiers never knew when war was going to hit, which therefore meant that they spent days and even weeks before there was any real kind of action. No war meant that they were stuck sitting around all day occupying themselves with other things, such as writing letters home, washing, cleaning equipment, eating and resting. But this uncertainty was really unsettling because they never knew when the next barrage was coming.

Throughout World War One there were many issues that arose during the battle. An issue that came about was death. In any war there is sure to be soldiers, civilians, etc. to die. When one thinks about death being related to war most will automatically draw a conclusion that most if not all deaths are cause by close contact battles, gun shots, and in some cases friendly fire. Another key cause of death is disease. There were many diseases that took lives of those who were in the war. Diseases began to grow and spread due to poor hygiene and living, weather changes and even the common cold could be deadly. The struggles of dealing with these diseases were stressful on everyone. Some diseases went unnoticed due to fact that unless there was a

The wartime lives of the soldiers who fought in the war were in a state of mind of mixed feelings. Happiness and devastating are two adjectives that can describe the soldier’s feelings in the war because at one second they can be happy that they succeeded on a mission, but on the other hand, it can be very devastating because one of their own soldiers could have been killed during the war. Aside from physical danger losing one of your own soldiers or having your family worry about you every day and night are some negatives and unpleasant parts about fighting in a war. For example, soldiers loved ones worried each day, and hoped that they would not get a knock on their door by someone who was going to tell them that their fathers, husbands, sons, or brothers have died in the war.

World War I was the second most destructive war of the 20th century. It lasted from 1914 to 1918. This war was fought with deadly weaponry such as poisonous gas bombs, machine guns, and other weaponry that was never used before. A lot of countries were involved in this war such as the British, Americans, Germany and so on. Also a lot of literature and books about the World War I was written up due to the extreme amount of casualties from the war. Songs and quotes were also written first to encourage before to join the war, then to boost their morale. But later it was mostly sung in memorial for those who have fallen in the war.

The first world war was a horrible war that affected many places and cost very many

World War I was a war fought between countries all over the world. Since it was a war, many lives were lost and places were destroyed. Many leaders rose to power during the war, both good and bad. Despite this, the main problem that resulted from the war was all of the death and devastation. A total of over 37 million civilian and military casualties resulted from First World War. Over 16 million deaths and 20 million wounded civilians and soldiers was

Conflicts such as the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War One, World War Two and the Vietnam War all share common characteristics. Throughout each of these wars the quality of life has decreased because of the demands and needs for soldiers and civilians. Examples of these poor conditions can be seen in journals, letters, propaganda posters, photographs, speeches, essays and songs. These examples prove that the soldiers in these wars lost many of the activities that many take for granted. It also shows how surviving life outside of the fighting is just as hard as the war itself. This further proves that war is a serious matter and should not be taken lightly.

War is one of the most powerful threats we have on the Earth today. War can bring about a variety of things in a variation of different ways and it is completely up to the government to decide a country's war position. It is up to individuals that will under no circumstances have to experience what they have created, but what happens to the soldiers they send in to battle for them and their families. For the soldiers they are trapped with an involvement unlike any other known to man, stuck with memoirs and images of what it's like to be hunted by an opposing soldier. Different types of people take different effects away from the warfront and are affected in diverse ways, but big changes after a war are unavoidable. In the stories “The Red