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Trauma In A Soldiers Home

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In a Soldier’s Home, Ernest Hemingway uses the setting of post war 1919 to show the theme of how emotional trauma can affect one in its environment. A place that Krebs felt most at home and felt safe at was his porch that he sat on when he was at his home in Germany and France. His porch was his place where he sat all day and read, look at the girl's while thinking about life. In Germany and or France he felt that he was safe from having any responsibility “He didn’t want any consequences.” Krebs really felt normal when he lived in Germany and France so when he moved back his whole perspective on things had changed because his actual home in Oklahoma was not his home anymore it was place of trauma. When Krebs moved back things were different, …show more content…

Krebs stopped admiring the girl's he used to love to talk to at his hometown. He stopped admiring them because “the army prepared him to not get to attached so he didn’t.” It was said in the story that Krebs had no problems overseas with the girl's, because he knew he didn’t have to commit and that they just wanted to be friends. In Oklahoma Krebs knew that the girl's were going to want to settle down and Krebs knew if he did that he might end up hurting them or even hurting himself. When he was at home with his family Krebs changed then too. Kerbs mom and dad ask him to get a job and settle down have a family but Krebs didn’t want to do that either. While he was in Germany he couldn’t hurt his family so when he came home he felt the guilt of being able to let down his family and himself. It is shown that Kerbs in a different environment is not isolated because he doesn’t have anyone close to him that he needs to protect so when he lives near people close to him he wants to isolate himself so he doesn’t hurt anyone. An example of showing that he isolates himself when he is at a place where there is people close to him is when he was talking to his mother. His mother asks him “Do you love

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