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From Remarque’s novel I(AQOTWF), the reader sees the life of a soldier from the first world war. Paul Baumer is a 19 year old man who joins the army under persuasion from his high school teacher Kantorek. But as he lives longer and longer on the front, he sees that this war is not the glorious war Kantorek promised it would be, and he is forced to live in what must had been "hell on earth". Despite his daily struggles to survive, Paul is not as affected by the war as deeply as most of the other soldiers

War impacts a lot of people; it destroys lives, it destroys innocence. Thousands of lives are lost, thousands of innocent people die because of hatred and the needs for power. The poem "Disabled" and the text "The Last Night" are both based on war and the destruction that war causes: losing lives, losing families, losing body parts and losing innocence. "Disabled" and "The Last Night" both convey the impact of war on the young, innocent people. "Disabled" conveys the message of soldiers losing themselves

“simple act” gives the impression that he feels it was a cop out because he could have ran away to Canada and still felt a part of his generation. In addition, John says “I was still a little self-conscious about my missing finger. The scar tissue was new enough so that any exertion the stump to look inflamed” (Irving 532). John’s scarred finger is not just unsightly, it is a reminder to himself and a tell-tale sign to everyone else, that John ran away from the draft and John was not proud of

The cellist’s music provides hope and inspiration to the people of Sarajevo that just as the Adagio in G minor that was rebuilt from just four bars they and their city can also be rebuilt. When Arrow’s supervisor is killed, her new supervisor commands she kills a civilian, but she resists, “She sees the sniper they sent to kill the cellist, his eyes closed, his hand at his side. She hears the music, and, this time, she does not fire ” (Galloway 226). The cellist’s music gives

The new soldiers’ resistance was usually followed by an attempt to flee which brought shame and embarrassment to both the new soldiers and their families. Subsequent to the attempt to flee came a final adoption to the war in which O’Brien and many others tried so hard to get out of. O’Brien uses elements such as conflict

Happy Birthday, 1951 Section B Write a summary of Happy Birthday, 1951 in about 150 words. "Happy Birthday, 1951" is a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. The main characters in the short story are a man and a boy. We are told that a refugee woman left her baby by the old man and then she never came back - That's how the man got the boy. The man doesn't know something about the boy and that's why they are choosing a day to celebrate the boy's birthday. As a birthday present the man wants to

The short story “On The Rainy River” is written through the perspective of O’Brien in present day and as a young faced with a draft notice for Vietnam War. In “On The Rainy River,” O’brien portrays the importance of bravery in an individual through the use of symbolism, powerful tone, and reflective point of view. It all began in 1968, when Tim O'brien receive a draft notice. Tim was bound for Harvard and thinks he’s too good for war. He doesn’t really want to go to Vietnam, so he decide to run

Explore the Use of Contrast in Wilfred Owen’s ‘Disabled’ and Kate Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour.’ Both Wilfred Owen in his poem ‘Disabled’ and Kate Chopin in her short story ‘The Story of an Hour’ use contrast to explore the key themes and characters. Owen accentuates the contrast that exists between the women before and after the war. He uses contrast to show the reader how he had a girlfriend before the war and that she had helped to be part of the reason him to join up, but after the war, he

The Internal Conflict When the Vietnam war took place, many people protested against it as they believed that the war’s purpose was illogical and unreasonable. Many people tried to protest against it in different ways; for example, men who were drafted to the war fled the country - as a form of protest - in order to dodge the draft. Stories like “On the Rainy River” and “John Strickland: Draft Dodger” show how men reacted when they were drafted to the Vietnam War, a war which they were opposed to

Tim O’Brien wrote a collection of related short stories titled The Things They Carried, that follows a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War and when they return to their homes. Throughout the novel, O’Brien uses real names and includes himself, as the protagonist, to create a style that ebbs and flows from fiction to non-fiction without realization. According to Kathleen Laura MacArthur, it is “through this process and these stylistic innovations, the reader might then experience this