The author gives different perspectives on the view of war. In my opinion the author does not like the thought of war so she made it look like a bad thing. In chapter nine in the book the author has the authorities come into the Creighton’s house and look for Eb. Eb had run away from his side of the war and the authorities came looking for him. The authorities come
Which is basically what a loyalist would think about the revolutionary war. Sam is fighting to be a free country, an optimistic idea that they could beat the strongest army of the time. In theory, Life had the right argument, as well as the outlook on war. First of all, Life knows that war causes death and changes people. He has seen things most people can not imagine.
Richie and his friends all enter the war as young and naive teenagers, but quickly lose their innocence as the true horrors of war become apparent. One fact that I learned from the book is that a war is one of the most inhumane and devastating event that could ever take place. Previously, my knowledge on wars was limited to descriptions such as bad and really bad. However now, I understand how gruesome and grim war really is from the eyes of Richie. His vivid and terrifying descriptions helped me see that war shouldn’t be viewed with nonchalance, because some of the most unimaginable things have happened there.
The idea of war was only ideal to the young boys, and that changed throughout the course of the book. The war is frowned upon by some people, Irene Hunt, as an example. First, the letters that the boys in the war wrote were never positive. They always mentioned the awful things about the war, “Things was awful bad with so many kilt and others froze.”
Although it is not clear which side the authors are on they ultimately argue that war is futile. In the novel My Brother Sam is Dead it shows many points that prove that war futile. One point is that it confuses people with reality and principle. It also creates a clash of generations and splits families apart.
How can two different characters from two different stories have something in common? In this essay I am going to compare and contrast . I am going to comparing and contrasting My Brother Sam Is Dead written by James Lincoln with Colony Of Fear written by Lucy Bledsoe. In this essay to be discussing are Characters and Conflicts in the novels. To demonstrate, In My Brother Sam Is Dead, Tim is the main character.
Fighting shapes the characters' lives and effect their decisions. The storyteller of the story, Death, doesn't take the war kindly. As a result of it, he can't get an
The futility and pointlessness of war are shown firstly through
It can easily be expected that people affected by suffering caused by war would not want any more of it. In the book, it is stated in the book: “How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.” War is not always portrayed the way it should be.
Gellhorn believed that war was bad because of the effect it had on the native people in the country. On the other hand, she believed war was alright in other aspects. Gellhorn only worried about the children and families affected by the gun fire and napalm attacks. The way she begins her writing makes the readers believe that she is completely opposed to war, which draws the readers in. She has hidden her underlying support for the war within her writing.
“Look at Europe,they’ve had one war after another for hundreds of years and show me where anything got better for them” (Collier and Collier 28). The authors James Collier and Christopher Collier of My Brother Sam Is Dead both prove they are not against war, but at the same time, they prove war is okay in the story. They use their feelings about if war should be okay or not okay through Tim’s father. Sam,one of the characters and sibling of Tim, argue that that they should be fighting for freedom and his father argues that war is not worth it. Even though both sides are presented in the story, Collier and Collier conclusively claim in My Brother Sam Is Dead that war is brutal and pointless.
The ideals that the soldiers once has become passions about war or even make it where they cannot hate the war like others can. The idea of a romanticized war, that ends up getting crushed quickly after arriving is what starts to shape the soldiers' ideals about war. This also helps to shape most of them into the men they become post-war. Once this romanticized dream of war is broken down, the men start to change and deal with the harshness of wars in different ways, which could include getting into fights with fellow
War, something that sounds so cliché yet endeavours a greater meaning; a meaning of finding your true self within yourself, and seeing your natural, brave or mediocre side. The concept of bravery and heroic men is often the label associated with war; however, in Timothy Findley’s The Wars, it is in fact the exact opposite. The Wars is an anachronistic example of what one goes through both physically and mentally. Findley accurately portrays the protagonist, Robert Ross, as a naïve nineteen year old who wishes to escape his excruciating feelings of reality for being held accountable for Rowena’s death by enlisting into war, as well as to adhere to societal norms. Robert is an incompetent young boy that achieves most of his knowledge of war from
The Cruel Realities of War In war, is there anything honorable about violence, murder, and cruelty? After becoming a soldier and being exposed to the cold realities of war, Paul Bäumer, a 20-year-old, realizes that the government has lied to the soldiers; they told them that it is an honor to fight for their country. The theme of the anti-war novel “All Quiet on The Western Front” is that war changes you for the worse. Remarque conveys to the readers that it is not an honor to fight for your country through the use of irony, symbolism, and imagery.
War curses all humanity which leaves us with diseases or even worse. First, war causes family to kill each other. In the novel “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty It shows that war can cause family to fight against each other. “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brothers face.” (O’Flaherty 10) War can be a very painful and dangerous thing.
