This destroys Mattie 's world. Mattie and her grandfather flees the city. To soon find out that the sickness is everywhere. she tries to figure out how to survive. Many people died not many survived because back then they didn 't have medicine to cure it like today u can get shots to help fight off bad sickness.
The biography, A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah, tells the story of a thirteen year old boy who spends his childhood being compelled to fight in the civil war in Sierra Leone. Ishmael Beah tries to avoid fighting for the rebels by running from town to town with his friends as the rebels advanced. Finally, his luck runs out and Ishmael Baeh is forced to serve in the civil war for the rebels. The story goes on to describe his horrific childhood as a soldier in Sierra Leone and his eventual rescue by Unicef and rehabilitation center. In this passage, Ishmael Beah created a mental image that allows us to visualize how disturbing and how unreal living in wartone Sierra Leone during the early 1980’s.
Union Soldier in Battle “Union Soldier in Battle” by Earl Hess, gives an insightful and truly detailed look into the lives of American soldiers during the civil war. This book not only discusses what the battlefield was like but it also goes into depth on how soldiers dealt with coping with what was happening around them. Hess draws his work from letters, diaries, and memoirs of Union soldiers; by doing this, Hess is able to expose the soldier’s deepest fears and also their sources of inner strength. He shows how they were encouraged by belief in God and country, or simply by their sense of duty; how they came to rely on the support of their comrades; and how they learned to muster self-control in order to persevere from one battle to the next.
In Legend by Marie Lu the author develops the theme of Day’s perspective on life to reveal that you need to live everyday to its fullest potential because when you don't you miss out on so many opportunities and it's just better to live one moment at a time and try and soak everything up. The author tries to explain that you just need to slow down and enjoy everything because maybe in that next moment you won't have anything. At this point in the story Day and June are sitting in an abandoned railroad car, when June asked why Daniel chose his street name Day, and he responds. “‘Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again.
A Journey Traveled Through Pain Imagine being involved in a bloody massacre and watching your community dissipate into the dusk. Picture dodging the piercing bullets as they whisk past innocent ears. Envision your home turning into a battle ground, breaking up into military bases—flipping the world upside down. (nice capture tactic) This was peoples’ lives for many years, beginning in the 1960’s, during the Civil War in Sierra Leone.
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.
The novel acts as a response to the era it discusses by solidifying the un-generalized version of war through fictional anecdotes of the narrator and characters (Reed 1). The emotional truth is never portrayed correctly through historic context or media while the author was able to reciprocate the sentiments of the soldiers through the graphic battles or actions written in this novel. 3. Factors that influenced the author to publish this novel was partly due to his way of coping after war, using stories to keep the imagination alive. Towards the end of the book, O'Brien revealed that
Days before the massacre, the thoughts of Quantrill were echoed throughout Missouri, “Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand; blood and revenge are hammering in my head” (78). These feelings spilled out onto the streets of Lawrence as raiders executed prisoners, threatening to “kill every damn one of them” (92). Goodrich described the trampling, dismembering, and burning of the residents. Throughout the book, Goodrich alludes to locations, residences, and areas of Lawrence. The author included maps of the city, images of troop movement, and time tables to help readers better understand the chaotic scene that was Lawrence, Kansas (36, 85, 139).
Frustrated with the ongoing war in Iraq, a young American Soldier, Private Victor Rush, decides to confront his superior commanders after seen members of his own unit executing illegal operations, just to find closed doors. Young and naive, Rush is lured to join one of the legion branches operating around Europe. For five years, Rush conducts countless missions to eliminate government and military officers around Europe. During every mission, a significant number of innocent civilians died by his lethal assassin methods. Tired of the lies and collateral damages, Rush decides to expose them to the world by revealing their most secret artifact in their possession.
The Warriors Ethos is a book written by Steven Pressfield, which was published in 2011. The book highlights a very rich history of warriors and their supporters alike. My goal with this paper is to draw some parallels between the examples in the book and what I took away as applicable to our lives as infantrymen In the United States Marine Corps. Chapter one is named “ Tough Mothers “. The chapter that stuck out to me most for giving perspective that I lacked prior to reading this book.
Kiowa, Ted Lavender, and Jimmy Cross are three very different people who were brought together to fight for a common purpose. They not only carried their own belongings, but each other too. This story shows how war can affect people and tells of the burdens that weigh soldiers down for a
When I am a future parent I would like my child to read, True Legend by Mike Lupica. The book is an excellent representation of an important life lesson. The life wow lesson,” is don't let fame go to your head”. The main character in True Legend is Drew, a gifted fifteen year old basketball star, who was starting to make choices that didn’t serve him well. These choices were starting to jeopardize his future basketball career.
However, the plague infected the animals as well, meaning as people moved with their livestock, the plague did too. But for those who chose to stay in the cities, avoiding the disease meant avoiding people. Many shops closed down and some priests even refused to give people their last rites. Another interesting fact about Boccaccio’s book is that men and women are both portrayed as intelligent, attractive and articulate.
Have you ever noticed how setting plays a role in the story? In Ernest Hemingway story “ Soldier 's Home”, The author creates a distant feeling by using setting to portray Krebs disconnection toward the world and lack of setting details. “By the time Krebs return to his hometown in Oklahoma.” In the third paragraph it talks about Krebs returning to his hometown in Oklahoma, showing that he grew up in a small state shows how going to war was most likely a whole new scenery for him. This adds to him coming back from war, but being disconnected from his life at home because he has only known the war and the peaceful life he is reentering is much different to life on the battlefield.
In Liam O’Flaherty’s The Sniper, the main character, a sniper, is in the middle of a civil war in Dublin, Ireland. It is his assigned duty to assassinate anyone on the the other side of the war, no matter who they are. This creates a huge conflict, considering that the sniper ends up killing his brother. This supports the central theme that war is cruel, and this can be supported by the craft elements of the dialogue used and the setting of the story.
