The book that is going to discussed in this essay is The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. It is about a boy named Holling and his teacher named Mrs. Baker. This is going on during The Vietnam war. Holling thinks that Mrs. Baker is a mean teacher, but he has to stay with her every wednesday, because he is Presbyterian and everyone in his class goes to Catholic or Hebrew school. Here is the two questions will be discussed in the essay are How do the plays Holling reads with Mrs. Baker mirror events in the book?
This argument analysis will be derived from the book When Books Went to War, written by Molly Guptill Manning, who is an attorney at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The book tells an interesting, not well known story of how books were given to soldiers during WW2 and ended up becoming an essential aspect of their lives. The soldiers would not have received these necessary literary escapes from the harshness of battle if it wasn’t for the massive effort of not only from the American Library Association, but America as a whole. In the book, chapter 8 focuses on the Soldier Voting Bill, which came up for revision in 1944, and sparked a censorship fiasco. That’s when senator Robert Taft, who opposed a fourth term for
I chose the Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt. The moral of this book is how it feels to have a school that is not normal, and have a teacher hate your guts. This book is about a seventh grader named Holling Hoodhood, and he goes around the school, acting serious about things. When things go downhill and all his classmates get mad at him, he tries his best to fix it. Mrs. Baker hated Holling, but then Holling acted like a friend to her, and the hate relationship was over.
The difference between two things are often blurred by way we interpret them. In The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt, the lead character, Holling is witnessing the truth behind people's true emotions. Holling was publicly embarrassed when pictures of him were plastered throughout the school displaying the bright yellow tights he wore in the Shakespeare play. Everywhere he looked he observed student faces manifesting haunting and unpleasant smirks, mocking him without mercy or end. Holling felt like he was engulfed in a bottomless pit of misery and shame.
The Wednesday Wars, is a historical fiction novel written by Gary D. Schmidt. The novel talks about a boy named Holling, and he just started 7th grade. His teacher’s name is Mrs. Baker, and he knows that “she hated my guts.” This explained why she bores Holling to death reading Shakesphere every Wednesday afternoon.
Life is strange when everything you know one minute is suddenly different from the next. The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt shows how important it is to find people who support you while showing kindness as you persevere through hardships. Holling starts off thinking everyone hates him, but I think it's just his perspective. The next thing he knows is how everyone is growing up with him. Holling grows as a person with the help of Meryl Lee, Heather, and Mrs. Baker.
In A Better War Lewis Sorely presents his audience with a well thought out, and well written examination of the last years of the Vietnam War. In 1968 then commander William Westmorland was superceded by General Creighton Adams(16-17). Several vitally important events during the war had taken place under the direction and leadership of Adams but by the time he had taken over, the people and media of the United States were declining in their concern towards the war in Vietnam. Because of this limited amount of attention towards the end of the war, most of the media coverage having to do with it focused on the time before Tet, when the tensions were high revolving the topic of Vietnam. Sorely points this fact out, using material that was only available in recent times, he delivers to us a swift and corrective story in which the little known truths are brought to light.
Jill Lepore used quotes and images from English colonists and portraits to show how colonists wrote about their experiences during King Philip’s War and how the narrative of the war has changed throughout the centuries. It also sets how colonists will narrate wars for future centuries. She spoked about how their writings of the war had a consequence of temporally silencing the Native Americans version on the war and how people have forgotten or even have any knowledge of the war. She uses a Boston merchant, Nathaniel Saltonstall account tilted “A true but brief account of our losses since this cruel and mischievous war begun” written in July 1676 year after the war had begun. He lists towns such as Narragansett, Warwick, Seekonk and Springfield
The novel The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt has many overall themes, the story follows a young boy in middle school learning about the nature of life through sad, happy, and devastating events. Holling Hoodhood is the only person in Miss. Baker's class doesn't go to a religious school on Wednesday afternoon, so instead, he has to spend his time with Miss. Baker reading Shakespeare and cleaning the chalkboard erasers. The first theme that is portrayed in The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt is that we can learn from others' mistakes , this means that when others mess up it helps us because we then know what not to do .This was portrayed in The Wednesday Wars when Hollings sister Heather runs away to
It is sometimes difficult for individuals to settle the discrepancy between truth and illusion, and consequently they drive others away, by shutting down. Mrs. Ross, in The Wars by Timothy Findley, is seen as brittle while she is attending church, and cannot deal with the cruel reality of the war and therefore segregates herself from the truth by blacking it out. As a result, she loses her eyesight, and never gets to solve the clash between her awareness of reality and the actuality of the world. She hides behind a veil, and her glasses to distance herself from reality. Mrs. Davenport has to wheel her around in Rowena’s chair to keep her awake, so she doesn’t harbour up subconscious feeling within her dreams, which she is unable to deal with.
Just as Ira Claffey paid attention to small details like plants, the author made sure to go into detail when it came to the horrors of the camp to show how truly dedicated some people were to the war. Others were numb when inhumane things happened. Some prisoners relied on memories to cope. Whenever a new prisoner would be introduced, they usually had a lot of flashback memories of families, or boyhood, life before the war that they were confined in. I think this connects largely to how Ira Claffey copes presently because he used to be a soldier in the Mexican American war.
Three Day Road is a novel written by Joseph Boyden, the novel was first published in March of 2005. The novel is about a native family from Ontario, where two of the family members travel to Europe “to do their part” in the Great War. The novel also tells a story about how the remaining family member experienced the war from “across the pond”, we can also read flashback of how life was for the family before the war, and the tragic story of the native people of Canada. The novel gives a good picture of how life was in the trenches for the common soldiers of WW1. This essay will discuss physical and psychology stress that was inflicted on the characters during the war.
A Psychoanalysis on The Wars In human history, war has greatly affected the lives of people in an extremely detrimental way which can be understood in Timothy Findley’s novel The Wars through a psychoanalytic approach in character development and their deterioration; the readers are able to identify the loss of innocence intertwined between characters, the search for self-identity in the symbolic and metaphorical aspect, as well as the essence of life. Those that are not able to overcome these mental challenges may develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or Rape trauma Syndrome, and sadly, some resort to suicide as the last option to escape their insecurities. However, soldiers are not the only ones affected by war; family members also face
The novel focuses on coping with the death and horror of war. It also speaks volumes about the true nature of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the never-ending struggle of dealing with it. In the
The process of militarization is a complicated and not so straight forward system of routinized and normalized violence in addition to a substantial shift of social perceptions and relationships, followed by, at the very least, massive resource allocation to a military or para-military organization. Two ways that a citizen could be swept up into militarization is quietly and loudly. Quietly happens when the choice is made for the citizen, and loudly is when the active engagement of militarization is a personal choice. Both directions of being swept into militarization can have ideologies attached to them but, often militarization can happen without and open agreement of these ideologies. Militarization of a civilized society can be very quiet,
