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In “The Man I Killed,” Tim O’Brien portrays a vivid story on how war affects individuals. Tim, Azar, and Kiowa are all at the Vietnam war in 1990 together fighting. Tim killed a man with a grenade and he feels deeply upset about the matter, while Azar shows no sympathy for the dead man whatsoever. Kiowa is the neutral man of the situation, trying to comfort and justify the death of the man because it was Tim’s job to protect his men. The story is told from the perspective of the protagonist, while O’Brien uses a sufficient amount of imagery throughout the reading to show the amount of guilt he has obtained from killing a man.
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“Fear keeps us focused on the past and worried about the future.” The main character of the short story “The Terror” by Junot Diaz would agree with this because he is stuck in a cycle of fear after getting beaten up. He got into a fight with a group of brothers and was paralyzed with fear for a long time after that. The author uses the character's actions and his feelings to show that the only way to conquer fear is to stand up to fear itself.
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This is the first terrorist attack that we have experienced in the 21st century. President Bush spoke out to the American people to empower and soothe them in a vulnerable time. President Bush reassures citizens and the victim’s families that America and its people are not only strong but are safe and will rise up again. Bush effectively executes his 9/11 speech and uses rhetorical devices to catch the citizens attention, calm the America people and unite them together again.
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Cole Polka Mr. Kerr ENG III: American Literature February 6th 2023 Escaping the Old Testament The Violent Bear it Away, by Flannery O’Connor, is a fictional novel.
A date that has gone down infamously in America’s history is the tragic event that occurred on September 11, 2001. This date was a turning point in the world, and many changes could be seen, such as the addition of the TSA in airports and increased security. However, one of the lesser known effects was the sense of fear that was unconsciously instilled within our communities. Today, this fear is represented through our heightened awareness towards terrorism, and the increased distance we tend to place between ourselves and our fellow community members. While 9/11 was a day most noted for its horrific display of terror and the loss of many lives, it was also the day that we, as a nation, lost our sense of security and replaced it with a sense
Edvard Munch’s stylistic choices in his painting, The Scream, effectively convey his perspective of fear through his style of the characters, the color, and the stroke mark. Like a skillful artist, Edvard Munch had effectively demonstrate his perspective of fear through the character’s body language and expression. Based on his illustration, fear is demonstrated when the character appears to abnormally cupped his/her pales hands across the sunken cheeks of his/her pale, open-mouthed, skeleton-like face. As if the character is terrorized, he/she seemed, by the swaying motion of his/her body, to melt and weakened in the face of fear. Therefore, by effectively illustrating the inner fear of the character, Edvard Munch had expressed his perspective
On September 11, 2001 tragedy struck in the United States. Terrorists attacked the twin towers in New York City as well as the pentagon located in Washington D.C. With a total of four aircraft hijacked, terrorists managed to fly two of these planes into the World Trade Center. Working in a normal atmosphere, New York became a city of chaos and fear after the first building was hit by the plane. Throughout the short story, “The Ashen Guy: Lower Broadway, September 11, 2001”
The creative non-fiction piece definitely grabbed my attention much more closely than the news article. Hunter S. Thompson 's short story titiled "Fear and Loathing in America,” begins by placing us there at the scene of devastation when he describes the planes crashing into the World Trade Center on what seemed like another normal day (Thompson, 2001, para. 1). On the other hand, The New York Times article bluntly states that sports events were cancelled due to terrorist attacks. It dragged on to describe in monotonous and sequential detail many of the events that were cancelled in the United States and abroad (Litsky & Williams, 2001, para. 1). Contrasting the two reveals how creative story telling is significant to writing well.
Interestingly, I read the article ‘on sports in the United States, shutting down the day after 9-11’ by Frank Litsky and Lena Williams and I also read the creative non-fiction story by Hunter S. Thompson ‘the day after 9-11’. However, the narrative story by Hunter S. Thompson is the one I like the most. Although both writers did their utmost best to relate the tragic event that transpired on that fateful day; the narrative did something that would be remembered as long as history remains. Assertively, the creative non-fiction story by Hunter S. Thompson the day after 9-11 or ‘Fear and Loathing in America’ kept my attention.