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    Sookan is a little Korean girl whose family fights for the cause of Korean Independence, but this is very dangerous. The family hopes that World War II will end soon so that they can be free. Sookan and her little brother, Inchun, try to help out at home, where they are secretly taught about Korean history and culture by their Grandfather. The family runs a small sock factory in their yard, with a group of teen-aged girls who work all day, every day to make socks for the Japanese army. The Japanese

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    Theme in "Soldier’s Home": The Struggle of PTSD Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Soldier’s Home” reveals the tragedy of soldiers with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) within our military. As wars prolong in time, it leads soldiers through a wild journey that may alter them forever. Some soldiers come back from war with different outlooks on the world, appreciating the finer things in life. Other soldiers come back a changed man in the sense of maturity, while some soldiers may come back mentally

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    Veterans Difficulties in relating to the family “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway is a story that an American war veteran, Harold Krebs, returns to his home Oklahoma from World War I. He comes home later than the other soldiers do, and he misses the welcome greetings of his hometown people. He tries to tell his war story to people but he find out no one is interested to listen to him. Krebs

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    Soldiers Home “It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald The devastating imagery soldiers witness in everyday life is stuck with them, and those memories eventually come to the surface. There’s nothing half as appreciable as coming home again. The short story presents the homecoming of an outcasted soldier following the war. Krebs, Hemingway’s main character, experiences

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    Character Analysis: “Soldiers Home” My character analysis is on Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” a story about a veteran of Word War one coming home after fighting for two years. He was overseas in Germany and France and fought with the Marines. His story is like those of a modern-day soldier coming home and how they struggle to adapt to everyday civilian life. The brotherhood of the Marine corps and every other branch has been strong fraternity feel, and it is hard to adjust to not having that

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    “The Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway is a short story that tells the story of a soldier who returns home but realizes that war has changed his life. Hemingway ensures that the readers fully understand the purpose of the short story by using a detached tone, brief sentence structure, and a lack of imagery help develop the short story. The use of these literary techniques in Hemingway’s story allows him to develop his plot without losing his audience’s attention and include a message in the story

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    Never before had so many soldiers faced psychological disorder after a war as soldiers in World War I faced. Soldiers now had issues when returning from war with their mental health and suffered severe side effects from the war. How someone changes from before war, during war, to returning home from war is demonstrated in “Soldier’s Home”. In Ernest Hemingway’s modernist short story, “Soldier’s Home,” the passage of time from before World War I to after, demonstrates the psychological damage war

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    I have put myself in the place of one of the soldiers in the boat. I am a reinforcement and a support to those already fighting and trying to conquer Constantinople. 2) This person smells the stench of death and dying that prevails all over the battlefield. He can also smell the sea and the salt water behind his and the smell of sweat from the exertion and effort required to breach the city. 3) This person sees death and destruction as the soldiers try to enter the city. As the ladders go up the

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    Foreign Home “The Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway is a short story that tells the story of a soldier who returns home but realizes that war has changed his life. Hemingway ensures that the readers fully understand the purpose of the short story by using a detached tone, short sentence structure, and a lack of imagery help develop the short story. The use of these literary techniques in Hemingway’s story allows him to develop his plot without losing his audience’s attention and include a message

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    Essay #1: Characterization Title: “Soldier’s Home” Author: Ernest Hemingway Setting: Post World War I era, 1919. In Howard’s (Kreb’s) quaint home town in Oklahoma. All who have returned from the harsh war are welcomed; their stories as well. All except for Krebs. Narrative Point of View: 3rd person. The narrator puts the reader in Kreb’s environment or in his society, so to speak. This allows one to feel as Krebs does and better understand the lasting effects of war (or perhaps the lasting

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