Could you imagine living in a world where you were in constant fear of being bombed, your brother was killed in battle and your best friend was taken away? It may seem harsh, but that’s exactly what happened in Carolyn Reeder’s historical fiction book, Foster’s War. In this book Foster’s brother, Mel, was killed in battle and Foster’s best friend, a Japanese, was taken to a concentration camp. On top of all that, Foster and the town he lives in, is in constant fear of being bombed, due to the fact that there are many aircraft manufacturers nearby. I believe that love can be broken, but not forgotten, because people can lose their loved ones or their relationship with them, but still remember the love that they once shared.
About twelve years and roughly eleven million deaths. The Holocaust. There are no words to describe it. It was full of death, brutality, pain, and torture. No one made it out unscarred.
We live in a society that has increasingly demoralizes love, depicting it as cruel, superficial and full of complications. Nowadays it is easy for people to claim that they are in love, even when their actions say otherwise, and it is just as easy to claim that they are not when they indeed are. Real love is difficult to find and keeping it alive is even harder, especially when one must overcome their own anxieties and uncertainties to embrace its presence. This is the main theme depicted in Russell Banks’ short story “Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story,” as well as in Richard Bausch’s “The Fireman’s Wife.” These narratives, although similar in some ways, are completely different types of love stories.
Both Remarque and Hemingway use the technique of juxtaposition to demonstrate the meaningless nature of patriotic idealism in the face of war. In ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Paul Bäumer and his classmates enlist into the army under the nationalistic ideology that all citizens should give unquestioning loyalty to the state, as represented by Kantorek’s persuasive preaching in which he asks “You’ll all go, won’t you lads?”1. However, when Kantorek writes his former pupils a patriotic letter, the men begin to realise that they despise him for sending them to die for empty ideals. By using the phrase “young men of iron”2 he implies that the men are young however, they feel that the horror of war has aged them prematurely, beyond their nineteen
Love, too, but it was a hard hating kind of love” (O’Brien 2651). Lieutenant Cross’s innocence was burned with the letters. He realized that Martha truly did not love him, he learned hate in that moment, he hated her for not loving him back, he hated that she consumed his mind and that now one of his friends was dead and he could not do anything about it. His realization that Martha did not truly love him back and it was silly to hold onto her was a moment of clarity of Lieutenant Cross. In this instance Cross’s loss of instance can be
Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life. (Chopin III)” Chopin uses the super detailed description of Edna crying to appeal to the audience and demonstrate how Edna’s current situation is exceedingly unpleasant. In both situations the authors use pathos to appeal to the audience and show the characters in dark and unpleasant situations to display how horrendous their situations
Affordable housing is housing created for people who have a certain median household income labeled as “affordable” by a local government. During the early 2000s, housing prices has started to rapidly increase, but the question is why? “Over the last decade, average rents have climbed 15%” (Ennis, 2016), becoming unaffordable for a numerous of reasons. One being the demand for apartments is high, but the supply is low. The land, where apartments are built on, is becoming limited (Rampell, 2013).
When a love story is told in a first-person perspective, it makes sense for the readers to expect an overly dramatic and emotional narrative. James Joyce’s “Araby” and T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” are both love experiences written in first-person perspectives. However, in “Araby”, the boy occasionally assumes a somewhat detached attitude in his narration and in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Prufrock sings his love song in a dry, passive manner. When the boy in “Araby” explains about the name of the girl he fell in love with, he says “her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood” (2169). Although this statement might sound passionate, identifying his love-evoked reaction as foolishness and not providing the readers with the girl’s name expresses the boy’s current state of
Chopin makes her strong statement in this quote from the story. Mrs. Mallard has no one to answer to but herself, and she feels liberated that her husband can no longer control her. During the late nineteenth century, women quite frequently had to suppress themselves to the will of their husbands, or to some other man who had a significant amount of control over their lives. Chopin successfully uses vivid imagery, point of view, and irony that gives a different view of marriage that is not typical of today.
Mallard’s emotional journey. From her initial reluctance to her ultimate freedom, Mrs. Mallard reflects nature’s everchanging beauty. Chopin conducts a symphony of imagery that pieces together the life and death of Louise Mallard. It is evident that Chopin uses Louise Mallard’s story to convey her perception of women and men’s roles during the late 1800’s by showcasing her acceptance of the freedom that could only be gained by a single woman. The descriptions used in Chopin’s work are a marvelous representation of her character’s struggle with inner conflicts.
There is also love in the novel along with the war going on. One type of love that is presented is the great brotherly love that all of the soldiers fell towards each other. After Paul and Kat kill a goose to eat Paul says, “We are two men, two minute sparks if like; outside is the edge of it crouching in danger, the grease drips from our hands, in our hearts we are close to one another…” Paul and Kat love each other as brothers and they would die for each other. The other type of love is the love between males and females.
“We see Ferguson and Barkley in conventionally romantic settings. On the three occasions when Frederic Henry interrupts the two women, they have been sitting alone in the pleasant places where the main, heterosexual relationship will flourish.” (Mandel) Although this is an interesting reading of the character it is not one that I believe to be true. The reader is not given much of an insight into Catherine’s life since the story is told from Henry’s point of view.
At the end she states, “... love’s a game, want to play?...”. This metaphor is trying to say that love can be complicated like a game. No one would have known all this extra information without figurative language.
Ernest Hemingway’s classic American novel, A Farewell to Arms is the story of the first-hand account of Frederic Henry, a man who served in World War I and fell in love with a nurse named Catherine. Hemingway utilized several techniques to manifest the theme of war and love with the ultimate result of death. The author fostered the characters through an emotional journey of highs and lows as death constantly hovered over them. Hemingway had to capture the concept of death correctly and impose the overall theme, which is why the ending was rewritten forty-seven times. Hemingway’s distinctive writing style centered around the dark perspectives of the 20th century, which sparked much controversy and criticism.
However, because she modifies her statement with the suggestion that she will be “very nice” to him on his next visit, she may indicate that after overcoming her distrusts and her mental restrictions, she has decided to fill her desires in choosing of having an affair. Chopin deliberately leaves the meaning of this statement uncertain, but knowing what we know about her
