There are many things you can use to help you get a better understanding of the world outside of where you live. For example, narrative novels can be helpful. The book One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War can help you investigate the themes of geography, elements of culture, and literary analysis to aid you in your understanding of the world.
Themes of geography take a big role in One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War. Relative place is key in this book because of all the different battles and wars that took place. The main place that this book is in is East Africa, Thailand, and the Balkans. Interaction is also another theme of geography, it's making the area you live in better. An example of this in the book One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War is there is a shelter in Africa that is made for child soldiers who don't have families with them. The kids are taken out of the war to this shelter until someone from their family comes to pick them up. Also, a school in Burma was knocked down, so the townspeople rebuilt the school out of brick and stone to make it more stable for the children.
More themes of geography found in this book are the movement of people, goods, and ideas. Movement of people and ideas were an important part in the novel One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War. Child soldiers are becoming illegal immigrants fleeing to Thailand because of the military junita in Myanmar which is also refered to as Burma. To continue, the Burmese people have also migrated to Thailand to escape the war, but if caught they face harassment, prison, and even deportation back to Burma. Also, for a little girl named Rebecca had to flee her country as well because the Khartou...
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...ely got lost in the fact that they're in war and never experienced a childhood. London's purpose in writing this book was to educate others about what's happening to children across the map, and to persuade the reader that there is something they can do to help.
The author organized the text by talking a little bit about the problems a country is facing, then relating it to how the children got involved in the problems. Kind of like sequence. If their country wouldn't of had that issue, the children would not be involved. Finally, the conflict in One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War is between the children and the area around them. The child soldiers were forced into war when they did not want to take any part in it.
Works Cited
Charles London. One Day the Soldiers Came: Voice of Children in War. Harper Collins Publishers: New York, 2007. Print.
Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Print.
about the war and his lack of place in his old society. The war becomes
to deteriorate the human spirit. Starting out leaving you're home and family and ready to fight for you country, to ending up tired and scarred both physically and mentally beyond description. At the beginning of the novel nationalist feelings are present through pride of Paul and the rest of the boys. However at the end of the war it is apparent how pointless war really is.
Fifty-eight thousand were killed, a pair of thousand captured, and three hundred fifty thousand; maimed and wounded, just about everyone throughout this country still feels the results of this conflict. Today, the kids in the country rest uneasy in response to the senselessness of this struggle. A different generation of school students, staff and young parents bring a singular perspective to the analysis of the implications of this specific war. These square measure the sons and daughters of the boys that fought to their death inside the jungles of South East Asia..
When the war was over, the survivors went home and the world tried to return to normalcy. Unfortunately, settling down in peacetime proved more difficult than expected. During the war, the boys had fought against both the enemy and death in far away lands; the girls had bought into the patriotic fervor and aggressively entered the workforce. During the war, both the boys and the girls of this generation had broken out of society's structure; they found it very difficult to return.
middle of paper ... ... Children within the United States whose parents serve in the military are left to deal with issues of separation and fear. The fear of not knowing when their parents are coming home, and if they’ll come back to the same person they were when they left. Since we are incapable of hiding violence and the act of war from children, it is better to help them understand the meaning behind it and teach them that violence is not always the answer. Children react based on what they see and hear, and if the community and world around them portrays positive things, then the child will portray a positive attitude as well.
...s, demonstrated through the author's talent, are denouncing the authority figures who were supposed to guide his generation into adulthood but instead turned the youth against each other in the pursuit of superficial ideals. The soldiers were simply the victims of a meaningless war.
“Every war is everyone’s war”... war will bring out the worst in even the strongest and kindest people. The book tells about how ones greed for something can destroy everything for both people and animals leaving them broken beyond repair, leaving them only with questions… Will they ever see their family again? Will they ever experience what it’s like to
Child soldier is a worldwide issue, but it became most critical in the Africa. Child soldiers are any children under the age of 18 who are recruited by some rebel groups and used as fighters, cooks, messengers, human shields and suicide bombers, some of them even under the aged 10 when they are forced to serve. Physically vulnerable and easily intimidated, children typically make obedient soldiers. Most of them are abducted or recruited by force, and often compelled to follow orders under threat of death. As society breaks down during conflict, leaving children no access to school, driving them from their homes, or separating them from family members, many children feel that rebel groups become their best chance for survival. Others seek escape from poverty or join military forces to avenge family members who have been killed by the war. Sometimes they even forced to commit atrocities against their own family (britjob p 4 ). The horrible and tragic fate of many unfortunate children is set on path of war murders and suffering, more nations should help to prevent these tragedies and to help stop the suffering of these poor, unfortunate an innocent children.
...it may help us arrive at an understanding of the war situation through the eyes of what were those of an innocent child. It is almost unique in the sense that this was perhaps the first time that a child soldier has been able to directly give literary voice to one of the most distressing phenomena of the late 20th century: the rise of the child-killer. While the book does give a glimpse of the war situation, the story should be taken with a grain of salt.
Singer, P.W. “Children at War.” Military History 24.6 (2007): 1-5. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 14 Feb. 2011.
After he goes to ride the soldier, he his flung from his back and actually sees the soldier, “a face that lack a lower jaw – from upper teeth to the throat was a great red gap fringed with hanging shreds of flesh and splinters of bone.” (Bierce 44). This is the first glimpse the boy comprehends of the true devastation of war. And at this point the child has his first rational reaction,“terrified at last, ran to a tree near by, got upon the farther side of it and took a more serious view of the situation.” (Bierce 44). The author is using the childes revelation of the violence in war to introduce to his readers the devastation of
When the war breaks out, this tranquil little town seems like the last place on earth that could produce a team of vicious, violent soldiers. Soon we see Jim thrown into a completely contrasting `world', full of violence and fighting, and the strong dissimilarity between his hometown and this new war-stricken country is emphasised. The fact that the original setting is so diversely opposite to that if the war setting, the harsh reality of the horror of war is demonstrated.
As the boys witness death and mutilation all around them, any preconceived notion about the indoctrination, "the enemy" and the "rights and wrongs" of the conflict disappear, leaving them angry and perplexed. The story is not about heroism but about toil and futility and the divide between the idea of war and the real life and its values. The selected passages are full of violence and death and loss and a kind of perpetual suffering and terror that most of us have never and hopefully will never experience. Both authors ability to place the reader right there on the front line with the main character so vividly, not just in terms of what he physically experienced and witnessed All the complicated, intense and often completely numbed emotions that came along...
Machel, Graca & Sebastian Salgado. The Impact of War on Children. London: C. Hurst, 2001.