Desmond Doss showed one of the aspects of a hero through the impact he had on WWII by being himself and practicing his beliefs. Due to Desmond`s religious beliefs, he did not believe in violence, therefore he refused to hold a weapon but still served for his country in WWII. In the movie Hacksaw Ridge directed by Mel Gibson (2016) Desmond says; “while everybody else is taking away life, I am going to be saving it”. This quote establishes that Desmond did not concede in killing, and this did not change when he went to war. As a result of disparity in his beliefs, many soldiers did not like him and teased him. This is evident when Jack Glover, a headquarters commander recalls his statement during WWII in The Conscientious Objector documentary
“ SOmetimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” Keri Russell. In the novel “ The Wednesday Wars” by Gary D Schmidt Hollings father decides that his sister is not going to college. Although Mr.Hoodhood has said no Heather can still make her own decisions according to what she wants in her life, so that she makes the results of her life and changes what she wants to change. In this situation heather has been beaten, but I think that Mr.hoodhood is wrong because you should go to college no matter how old you are. Just because your parent says you can’t do something doesn’t mean you can’t do it as an adult.
In Alice Walker’s, “Everyday Use” Dee is one of the daughters of Mama. Mama also has another daughter named Maggie, but she is portrayed not as smart as her sister Dee. When they were growing up Dee used to read to her sister and Mama. She used to read to them ever when they did not want her to. That showed how she was smarter than Maggie and after that Mama started treated them differently.
There is no doubt that Miss. Strangeworth is not an easy person to deal with, let alone live with, and although her character is fictional, there are many people with the same personality. We can tell quite easily that she is a very meticulous woman, with a lot of perfectionist tendencies, a few of which are to nitpick people’s lives and make sure that even the most minute detail is up to her standards. I know of someone with these attributes and as difficult as they are to deal with, with their list of requirements to be met and their eagle-eye for detail in even the smallest things, they mean the best, and are always trying to help, despite the possible repercussions.
The naivete of a child is often the most easily subjected to influence, and Pearl of the Scarlet Letter is no exception. Throughout the writing by Nathaniel Hawthorne, she observes as Dimmesdale and the rest of the Puritan society interact with the scarlet letter that Hester, her mother, wears. Hawthorne tries to use Pearl’s youth to teach the reader that sometimes it’s the most harmless characters that are the most impactful overall. In the novel, The Scarlet Letter, Pearl has learned the greatest lesson from the scarlet letter through her innocence as a youth and her realization of the identity of both herself and her mother.
*Hassan was crying because of the shame he felt after the encounter with the soldier who said he had slep with his mother at some point.
Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, once accurately summed up the notion of war by stating: “Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.” In these words he conveyed what many Americans, particularly soldiers, feel during wartime. The novel Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo, shares the life and experiences of a gravely wounded WW1 soldier that is only able to think. In this stream of conscience narrative, Joe Bonham is in a constant battle with his mind as he discovers the extent of his injuries sustained from war, his inability to communicate with the outside world, and his struggles as he copes with loss. In the film Shenandoah, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, Charlie Anderson experiences non
The film ‘Saving Private Ryan’ is a Steven Spielberg film released in 1998 which aimed to make a both shocking and effective portrayal of warfare. The film shows realistically the severities and horror of warfare. Spielberg admitted that he was ‘looking for realism the whole time’. A conventional war film aims to show fearless soldiers and frightened or brutal enemies. Spielberg wanted to show fear from both sides and highlight the terror felt by young men. I feel it is easy to become detached from the fact that many soldiers were young men with individual lives and varying views. The film uses de-saturated colour so that the audience feels the film is older. The effect of de-saturated colour allows audiences to feel that they have also taken the step back in time along with Private Ryan. Another effect is the use of handheld cameras which allows the audience to feel they are in the battle and moving up the beach or across ground. Spielberg saw the opportunity to use D-day as an opening scene. Not only would D-day be an action packed opening scene it would also show its many brutalities. This scene is the film’s selling point and almost trademark. Finally the film shows how ordinary men find themselves fighting on the frontline.
In Slaughterhouse Five the reader is encouraged to show contempt for war and to abandon all hopes of thinking war as a place where deeds of heroism are and bravery are performed. A character in the novel, Roland Weary, seems to think the very opposite of what Vonnegut is trying to communicate in the novel. He sees war as an adventure, a time for exploration, not as a time where horrible atrocities are committed and where massacres take place. Even army personnel turn on each other. Billy Pilgrim who is being beaten by Roland Weary is saved from death, ironically, when a German patrol finds him. Another bunch of characters that seem to ‘mistake’ war as something fun is the English officers at the POW camp. In the words of Vonnegut, “they made war look stylish, reasonable and fun.” Another interesting thing that Vonnegut does is that he frequently uses the phrase “So it goes,” after every death or mention of dying in the novel. He uses the phrase very often, and after a certain amount of time, it begins to remind the reader that the reader is powerless to stop all the killing that is going on.
An intriguing plot is the first thing people look for in a movie. War is a complicated subject so in a film about war, while it is important for the plot to be interesting, it is even more important that it is sensible and flows smoothly. This allows the audience to be entertained and keeps them from getting lost in too many complicated details. The Hurt Locker is the story of three men who are part of a United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal (E.O.D.) team stationed in Baghdad in 2004. Sergeant First Class William James is a daring specialist who knows everything there is to know about bombs, inside and out. He begins his rotation with Bravo Company after the former team leader is killed while attempting to disarm a roadside bomb. Bravo Company has just 38 days left on rotation and since James has arrived, those days are fraught with tension. James d...
The primary character, Siegfried Sassoon, based on a real life person, was a poet as well as an extremely recognized war hero in WWI. Through his trials and tribulations he was transformed from an expert bombing technician, to an anti-war advocate. His writing of the “Declaration,” which was his most widely controversial writing, got him sent to Craiglockhart Hospital, as a mental patient and he was labeled “mentally unsound.” It was during his time at the hospital that we see the variety of emasculation that he encountered through the war.
One of the main characters in the novel is Wilder, the youngest son of Babette, Jack Gladney’s wife. Wilder
In his opening speech he said “Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a looser. “Americans play to win all the time”. The very thought of loosing hateful to Americans” This sums up neatly what Patton believed and was trying to do in the movie.
The movie goes on about the lives of the African Americans group like “Lightning”, “Easy”, and the others but overall depicts the racism they faced on the military because of their skin color. It displays how whites didn’t want to give the Red Tails important air based missions because they believe they were mentally inferior. At the end, the Red Tails have successful escorts and other missions and are recognized by the military because of the missions they accomplished. Hacksaw Ridge is one of my favorite war movies which shows the story of Desmond Doss and his medical influence in the Hacksaw Ridge that would led them to the Battle of Okinawa on 1945. In the movie, Doss saves countless of lives as he did in real life and at the end of the movie there is footage about the real Desmond Doss and how he received the Medal of Honor. Alone in Berlin reveals the story of Otto and Anna Quangel challenging the Nazi regime after they lose their son to the war. They begin to write postcards and spread anti-Nazism in their city to illustrate the rage many parents should feel against Hitler and the Nazis. Many Nazis feel hatred against them because they are disrespecting
War is a machine that extracts young men and women from reality. It twists their morals until they do not know what is right or wrong. This level of dehumanization and objectification is clearly argued in Ron Kovic’s Born on the Fourth of July: “He had never been anything but a thing to them, a thing to put a uniform on and train to kill, a young thing to run through the meat-grinder, a cheap small nothing thing to make mincemeat out of” (165). War is the “meat-grinder.” Soldiers only matter because they can kill. War tears apart the people fighting it. Coming out of the war Kovic does not know what to do. He is lost. This aimless feeling is similar to the experiences of Jake and the Gang in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. The protagonist, Jake Barnes, and his entourage wander the streets of Paris and Madrid with no purpose. After war, the real w...
The name Hal Moore is well recognized due to the popular movie “We Were Soldiers”. The story captures the true events of the 1965 battle of Ia Drang valley in Vietnam between the 7th Calvary and North Vietnamese Army. In that 4 day battle Hal Moore exemplified himself as a visionary and ethical leader. However,