Mutability of Archive
According to Kanwar, “[There ]is the inadequacy of the archive. The presence activates the absence. The collection activates the unknown. It is not the archive that we cling to, but the uncertainty in the core of the archive. What is true is false and what is false is true so easily in this territory; testimonies and memories are fluid, constantly changing, and so it is this temporary fragility that is mobile, potent, and revealing (Emilia Teracciano, 76).”
A Season Outside
Amar Kanwar’s A Season Outside (1998, 30 minutes) is a thought provoking quest to investigate the futility or validity of violence. The film employs several codes of conflict and discord—from the territorial border of India and Pakistan to visuals of Tibetan refugee settlement— to satiate the curiosity to posit violence as a credible response to hurt and harm. It questions its worthiness as device to exact revenge on the transgressor.
He uses the everyday ordinariness of military routines on the Wagah border as a representation of perpetual reminder of the severe injury caused to the lands on either of the line. The faces witnessing such traditions find tem to be deeply entrenched customs that are representative of the kind of conspired silence that people get in to justify violence and accept the damage in its wake as inevitable.
Bringing Character through Spoken Word
According to Jyotsana Kapur, the film’s power lies in the simplicity and minimalism of its structure, interplay
In the book Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers tells the story of soldiers who struggles with a problem involving what is right and wrong in war. Fallen Angels set in Vietnam during the Vietnam war, the story introduces the main character Perry, who faces obstacles, including death and killing. The author’s use of literary devices, specifically imagery, irony, and metaphors convey the theme warfare often forces soldiers to reconsider their traditional notions of right and wrong.
The author employs imagery to express the theme that warfare often forces soldiers to reconsider their traditional notions of right and wrong.
He conveys a very accurate depiction of the brutality and chaos that emerged in Sierra Leone during the war. He shows how young boys were exploited by armed groups. His depiction of the atrocities he has watched and carried out himself is horrifying and deeply upsetting. For example, the image of guns in the book represents the power and control of those who wield them. In his memoir, Beah says, “The corporal gave the signal with a pistol shot and I grabbed the man’s head and slit his throat in one fluid motion,” (Beah).
This chapter “The Ghost Soldiers”, showed us how Tim O’Brien and the other soldiers were dealing with the war both physically and psychologically. It also shows us how the Tim O'Brien behaved and felt when he was shot, wounded and had a bacteria infection on his butt and how the war changed the way he thought, and viewed the other soldiers around him.
This chapter also contain a lot of psychological lens. From the way Tim O’Brien felt when he was shot and separated from his unit to a new unit to when he wanted revenge on Bobby Jorgenson for almost “killing” him.
Conceptions of exploit and exposibility is constant in his text as he verbally expresses the truth, or what the public can receive. The poem, Homecoming, communicates the horrible aftermaths of war, categorically the Vietnam war and the effects on Australia, and our adolescence. Homecoming prospers in addressing the quandaries that the regime do not addressed in the promotional posters and propaganda spoon victualed to society, which we victual up expeditiously. Dawe, through this poem was to make us cognisant about the quandaries of war. On the Death of Ronald Ryan, alternatively was rather a homage to the last man executed in Australia, rather than being an exposing piece of text, though it does contain aspects that do explicate the powerlessness of society and the authentic power of the regime.
Tillman, in Army fatigues, sits in a tree with an assault rifle in hand, waiting for someone to test his shooting skills. The landscape behind him is brown and looks dead and lifeless, just like his fallen comrades.one feels Tillman’s demeanor in the photograph, but whether he is focused on the seriousness of war or the fear of imminent death we will never know (SI “Remember” n. pag.). To appeal to their audience, this cover uses specific tactics.
The fatigues induce a sense of patriotism that hits home with the American audience.
This is showing how the war affects soldiers and how they is these circumstances are put into deadly positions that often lead to them having to experience such devastating occurrences. People lose their innocence in war and they lose their
When faced with war soldiers change, for better or for worse. Modern culture celebrates the glory of patriotic sacrifice. However, this celebration often leaves out the gritty details and trauma of violence behind war and the way it affects people. Homer’s The Odyssey and William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives clearly discuss these details. Both debate the long-awaited return of warriors that went off to fight a war and the way the experience changes the protagonists.
Lament to the Spirit of War Quiz One Response
In Lament to the Spirt of War, the idea of war is a frightening and quite scary place to be. Although reading this story is not like the reality of war, a person has a sense of what it feels like to be caught in the war itself. The story gives details that explains what a soldier feels like when he or she is in battle. Like a “raging storm” or a “fiery monster.”
In the deeply sorrowful novel All Quiet on the Western Front, young protagonist Paul Baumer serves as an example for how World War I effects soldiers not only physically but also psychologically. Author Erich Maria Remarque illustrates the horrific truth of the battle front through use of literary elements such as onomatopoeia and metaphors. Remarque strips all romanticized stereotypical ideas of war and serves readers a plate full of flat out tragic reality. The trauma filled scene in the novel in which Baumer defends his life and kills the enemy soldier, Gerard Duval, displays a perfect example of what every soldier has to go through.
The reader is able to experience what it would be like to live during those days, and follow along both group’s point of views as the author unfolds the events to come, intertwining both fictional and non-fiction in one thrilling story. Slopes of War has many different themes and Avi’s quote is shown throughout the whole story, whether from the reckless and curious Bekah, or the final words of a dying soldier, it is displayed in various ways.
Could you imagine living in a place that was under constant warfare? This was the reality author Rawan Yaghi wrote of in her personal narrative From Beneath. In the article What’s the Environmental Impact of War by Karl Mathiesen he uses facts and statistics to inform readers of the extreme negative effects war has on the environment. In the personal narrative, From Benath by Rawan Yaghi, she writes about her first time experiencing a bombing while living in the Gaza strip a Palestinian territory that experiences violence due to the war between Isreal and Palestine.
It ties together the soldiers’ view of mortality and death, two overarching themes, by explaining some of their questionable actions, and it incorporates the concept of “story truth”, offering more information as to why this story technique, used and discussed throughout
The Wars is a symbolic masterpiece that illustrates the great impact war brings on the microcosm of society and how individuals juxtaposed to the war are affected. The novel itself requires active reading; because without it, the novel would seem very simplistic; however, after further examination, readers can evidently recognize the complexity of Robert’s character with the aid of many heteroglossic components, techniques, devices, and the reworking of literary conventions. Robert’s physical, mental and emotional journey he endeavours, followed by the constant re-evaluations of his truths and becoming a more proficient soldier, can be seen through a formalist perspective with the use of foreshadowing to signify Robert’s transition from a sane to insane soldier; the utilization of animal imagery highlighting Robert’s development through the horrific experiences of war; and the several themes in the text to illustrate Robert’s evolution as a soldier through his inner
Peacefulness against chaos, beauty against ugliness. One time is between personification and inhuman feelings to describe the brutality of nature. In “Disabled” other people in the town think the soldier as an animal. They also see him as a burden and a unwanted responsibility. They look down upon him and pity him but do nothing.
