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Similarities Between In Flanders Fields And The Hunger Games

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Remembering The Poppies
Bob Dylan once said “I'll remember you. When I've forgotten all the rest. You to me were true. You to me were the best." This relates to the novel and the poem by saying once everything is over, the people that died will be remembered because both are in a state of destruction and can’t focus on everybody that died, but instead, they have to fight for them. It shows how both “In Flanders Fields" and The Hunger Games will show how they use remembrance with flowers to show that they are still there with the characters. John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields” and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games both show remembrance in their stories during a time of despair, death, and grief. The poem “In Flanders Fields” shows remembrance by mentioning poppies and how they are a remembrance of …show more content…

The poppies grow out of the ground next to the crosses signifying that the poppies grow where the soldiers were buried; and that the poppies are signifying that the soldiers are still with them just not in a human form. It also shows that in both death and destruction, the soldiers lost their lives but that doesn't mean that they can’t live on in the afterlife. In addition, The Hunger Games shows remembrance when Katniss decorated Rue’s body with flowers after she died. Collins says, “I decorate her body. Covering the ugly wound. Wreathing her face. Weaving her hair with bright colors” (371). This quote talks about how Katniss makes Rue’s body look good after she died so that when they pan the camera onto Rue’s body. Every district will remember what the capital did to her and how she died because they threw her into The Hunger Games to die and that it all could have been avoided if they never pulled her name. Katniss uses this to keep fighting as well along with Thresh and since Thresh was pushed to fight after Rue’s death, he ended up saving Katniss from the girl who is in District 2 all because Katniss was helping Rue so Katniss got to live

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Soldiers typically lacked sympathy for what they went through from society ignoring the trauma they brought back from the Vietnam War. The following quote from the article presents the thought process of most soldiers to us: “By forgetting, he said he could prove that he was strong and could master his anxieties… by remembering, he felt he was admitting that he was weak and no longer in control” (Penk and Robinowitz 3). The previous quote shows how the soldiers felt that forgetting made them appear strong rather than letting their emotions weaken them, and this is why we see a soldier’s inner conflict as they force themselves to remember in the poem. In this quote from the poem the soldier has come to the monument for remembering those who passed in the war and as he looks at those names his first thought is: “No tears.

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The Hunger Games and The Goonies have a lot of differences and similarities in the approach to their hero's journey. In the hero's journey the test/ally, ordinary world, and _____ have many differences and similarities. This shows that many stories can have the hero’s journey in many different or similar ways In the test/ally a part of the hero’s journey there were a couple of similarities and differences.

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For example, personification can be seen in both poems. In “Grass” the grass repeatedly exhibits human traits by commanding the bodies be shoveled under so that it may work. Similarly, in “At the Un-National Monument…”, the grass joins hands, and the sky is heroic, both implementations of personification. Additionally, both poems make use of allusion to describe their respective gory battles, requiring some knowledge in history to fully comprehend their meanings. In “Grass”, Sandburg alludes to the Napoleonic Wars by mentioning Austerlitz and Waterloo.

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Rue helps Katniss by warning her of the tracker jacker nest and aids her to eliminate the other tribute. Katniss also has Peeta who fakes love with

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he Hunger Games, The Goonies are alike and different in their approach to the Hero's Journey. The Ordinary World, Call to Adventure, and the Refusal each have a number of these similarities and differences. Each illustrates how the hero's journey can be adapted in various texts and stories.

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In addition, they were italicized which can be emphasis or what the uncle said about war. In addition, he used metaphors. In the poem, he said “Petunias are an apology/ for ignorance, my confidence” (8-9). The flowers that everyone uses is a metaphor for something and that helped

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In addition, the deaths of soldiers will forever be with the ones who remained alive. In “Hope, Despair and Memory” written by Elie Wiesel, the author describes how “for the first time in history, [soldiers] could not bury [the] dead, [they] bear their graves within [themselves]” (2). Throughout the time of a war, each and every soldier will experience a variety of different deaths, each playing a unique emotional role in their lives. War, as challenging as it already may be, is created to be made even more difficult with the immense loss of life every soldier must suffer through. There is absolutely no time to grieve or mourn toward a dear soldier that was lost.

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Death is always associated with the occurrences of wars. No matter what, there is no escaping the fact that people will die in battle. Throughout the book The Things They Carried there are scenes of extreme violence, and heart crushing deaths. Witnessing someone you know being killed, or even killing someone you do not know is very traumatizing to a person and their life, but it's war and that is just how it is. Tim O’Brien uses many examples from the war for his story to emphasise the theme of Death, and violence and that no matter what it is no one's fault, and everyone fault.

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The Hunger Games and The Goonies are alike and different in the Hero’s Journey. Many times there are things partially the same and in times like the Call to Adventure, Test/Allies/Enemies, and the Approach where they can be connected in different ways even though they are different stories. The Call to Adventure in both books are very different. In The Goonies, they find one-eyed Willy's treasure map.

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The way that The Hunger Games and Goonies approach the hero's journey that they are both alike because they needed to do what they wanted like Katniss needed to get food and help Prim and her mom, and the Goonies needed money so they can stay in Goonsville, by the refusal, crossing the threshold, and the road back they both have similarities and differences. The refusal for The Hunger Games is when Katniss refuses to let her 12 year old sister go in The Hunger Games so she decides to take her spot in the games. The Goonies refuse to let the people tear down there houses and city so they look for treasure and try to save Goonsville. The refusal is similar because they both are trying to save something, Katniss saves Prim, and the Goonies save their houses from getting destroyed and area turned into a golf course.

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While most of the poem is spent trying to ensure that she will be remembered after she dies, the speaker realizes that keeping her memory alive must not occur at the price of another’s happiness. She does not want her beloved to be sad that she is gone, but wants him instead to understand that the afterlife and a physical existence are two separate realms, and, moreover, to rejoice in the memories of the good times they have spent together. Remember’ gives the griever permeation to move on. This may be because “Remember”, was written by the person that would soon die, unlike “Funeral Blues” which is entirely negative towards death not only forbidding themselves from moving on but also forbidding the world from moving on after the tragic passing of the loved one. This may be one of the many different attitudes the two poems have towards

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