Looking around the mole infested, rodent plague house now riddle with bullets holes, the more I realize how lucky I’m to be alive. One day before the war broke out, one of Megan’s friend and allies in the Scorpio gang warn her about the impending war and who the gangs targeted. If it wasn’t for that warning I along with many others who hustle the streets of Springfield would be among the dead. No matter how much I pleaded with my aunt to leave the house which was situated right in the middle of the battle zone she refuses. When I argue the point that her death would be certain if she stayed, she would bark back at me with a bold face look, “Death does not scare me it quakes at my very presence and flee. I’m invincible.” Her response was obviously hindered by the …show more content…
I left her to her own fate and stayed with my friend Megan in Belmont Road five blocks away from the red zone. Strangely enough, I felt partly to blame for her death. I knew she wasn’t thinking straight at the time, not with all that liquor and drugs she’s been taking, but I couldn’t afford to become a punching bag. Whenever she was that liquored up and high I knew it’s best to stay clear of her as she becomes super Godzilla/tyrant all at the same time. Still I’m beleaguered with the thought that I should have dragged her kicking and screaming when I left the house that day, regardless of the consequences of such actions. In all fairness how can you save someone who didn’t want to be saved? According to the coroner, it wasn’t the bullets that killed her, but the bottle of whiskey mixed with the crack that finally did her in. I guess that’s the way she wanted to exit this world to greet death on a high note. I wondered if she met my mother and father on the other side. Or if the angles had to become the referee for both my dad and aunt whose feud still seems to puzzle me even in their
After the accident that the grandmother had unintentionally caused by manipulating the image of a nonexistent house into her family’s head, they run into the Misfit. No one else in the family knew who he was or anything about him. They all thought someone had come to their rescue and was going to fix the car, but nothing gets over on the grandmother. Blatantly putting the whole family in danger she blurts out, “’You’re the Misfit!’…’Yes’m…but it would have been better for all of you, lady, if you hadn’t of reckernized me’” (192). At this point in time, she knows that she is going to die, trying to save herself and not caring about the rest of her family clearly as she has witnessed the Misfit’s goons kill off her whole family, she tries to manipulate him. She brings up that he is a “good man at heart” (192) and telling him if he “would pray…Jesus would help” (194). That was just simply her trying to plea for her life, but when she realized she was getting nowhere her “head cleared for an instant” (196), she knew this was an opportunity to try and manipulate the Misfit into letting her go, to make him feel like he didn’t have to be a killer anymore, to comfort him “she reached out and touched him on the shoulder” (196). The Misfit jolted away and shot her three times in the chest because he saw through her manipulative ways which if clear when he
Stories of Insanity The hardships of war can change a person to the point of insanity. However, one man lived through the dramatic hardships of war and told the tales of his experiences. William Timothy O'Brien, an American author, was born on October 1, 1946. He went to Macalaster College in 1968 for a degree in political science, and then he attended Harvard University from 1970-76.
Soldier's Personal Narratives of the Vietnam War and The Vietnam War and the Tragedy of Containment
By the time I got home, my brother had already arrived and was enthusiastically recounting the day’s events to my mom, who had obviously been crying. When he finally stopped carrying on, my mom told me to sit down and then she told me. I will never forget her exact words or even the way she said them. “Megan committed suicide today.” I stared blankly at her, I knew she had to be lying, she had to be wrong, Megan would never do that. We had been too good of friends for too long, I knew her too well. Megan was always happy, she always had a joke to tell. She had such a bright future, she was an excellent athlete and it seemed as though she succeeded in everything she tried.
Historical events can play an important role in a person's life. In A Separate Peace, the whole atmosphere at the Devon School changed as World War II progressed. The boys either eagerly awaited the draft, enlisted in the area of war they wanted, or did not want to go at all. The students at the school created new activities for enjoyment since the customary past times could not be played due to a lack of materials. When a friend "returns" from the war, the boys at Devon got a real sense of what the war was like. The boys learned that going to war was not all fun and games like they had anticipated. The influence World War II had on the characters in A Separate Peace and on life at the Devon School was clearly depicted through their actions and activities.
They were enjoying a New Year’s Eve party when she and her husband received a call from a house they are watching while the owners were away. The owners f the house son also through a New Years Eve party and her husband and a friend went to go check on him. While they were there the husband died from multiple kicks to the head which was stated in the autopsy. No information was given that night from the people who attended that party which made it difficult for police to prosecute. Five years later a young man named Ryan Aldridge was arrested for the murder of Katy's husband. When she found out she wanted answers as to why and what happened in his life for him to make the life decision for both of them. She didn’t want revenge but wanted to hug him when they first met. She worried about him while he was in jail and taught herself about the justice system regarding his case. Ryan served here three out of five years in jail and that prices Katys visited him and did a process called victim-offender mediation this took an entire day. During this time, they both found humanity and the both began to understand each other and realized they had things in common. They worked together after he got out of jail sharing each other’s story. She states the fact that Ryan is in capable of inflicting harm is what she wanted. From this story, I learned to show one empathy and kindness. If Katy was able to forgive the
In the novel Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden, many various responses to war are shown through Marsden’s use of characterisation and plot. The nature of these responses varies greatly from person to person, with each character having a distinctly unique response. In particular, Ellie’s response, which shows an increase of violent and aggressive thoughts and behaviour. Also, Robyn’s response, which involves unexpected physical strength, triggered when circumstances require it. Finally, Chris’s response, which displays a waste of his potential and capabilities as a result of persistent drug and alcohol habits, used to avoid the inevitable war taking place. All of these ideas illustrate the various responses to war shown in Tomorrow, When the War Began through the use of characterisation and plot.
Thesis: The war overseas, but there are millions of veterans still fighting the war at home.
In this excerpt from an email written to friends and family, an American soldier describes what it is like to live in Iraq while serving his country. The Soldier describes his living conditions thoroughly and offers many examples. Through the usage of rhetorical strategies like imagery, chronology, and he puts the reader in his position, he tells of his experience and his attitude towards it.
... the solution. Her logic was that if she doesn’t have to see me everyday, then she won’t be reminded of her past, and her life will be better. In an attempt to make her life less stressful, she contacted my father about me going to go live down in Texas with him, not because of something I did, but rather the factors I can’t control created a nuisance in her life that could so easily be taken care of by me being flown away. As mean as it may sound, my own father saying he didn’t have enough time, money, or room for me, was a relief for me because of the fright I still have inside me against him, yet, it meant having to continue putting up with the mistreatment from my mom. Just how for Connor, the choices to run away or be unwound both seem undesirable and unpredictable, I know that my conflicts too, must be faced in order to keep moving on with life.
It can be hard to fully comprehend the effects the Vietnam War had on not just the veterans, but the nation as a whole. The violent battles and acts of war became all too common during the long years of the conflict. The war warped the soldiers and civilians characters and desensitized their mentalities to the cruelty seen on the battlefield. Bao Ninh and Tim O’Brien, both veterans of the war, narrate their experiences of the war and use the loss of love as a metaphor for the detrimental effects of the years of fighting.
The next day I woke with no belief that I was still alive. I didn't know where was I going to go because that one guard saw my face and I am pretty sure he knows who I am now. I had to disguise myself but I didn't know how. Except for shaving my hair. My beautiful, beautiful hair. I didn't want to cut my hair but I had no choice to. It was the only way I was going to live and not be eliminated or die in whatever way the army men kill you if you disobey their rules. Of course I didn't trust Zachary to cut my hair because we were buds and buds jack with each other. I didn't trust Frederick that much either because I didn't know him that much but he was the adult so I made him get it. He was really worried that he was going to hurt me but then
World Peace is something that will never happen. Too many countries have too much military power and don't want to give in to any other country. War is something that the world is going to have to deal with because there has been very few years over the history of the world that have been war free. Like one quote by an unknown author says, "Peace is rare: less than 8% of the time since the beginning of recorded time has the world been entirely at peace. In a total of 3530 years, 286 have been warless. Eight thousand treaties have been broken in this time."
Written just after the first global war, Hemingway delivers a subtle anti-war novel. World War I ended in 1918; A Farewell to Arms was published eleven years later. Although eleven years seems as if it would be enough time to forget, no time span can allow Hemingway to forget the effects of World War I. After World War I, Hemingway is struck with countless nightmares. Hemingway uses these nightmares and flashbacks to write A Farewell to Arms (Analysis 1). When reflecting on the novel, a blogger writes, “A Farewell to Arms is a war novel, not in the sense that it glorifies the war, but as all know, it describes the cruelty, madness of the war which deprives human life and happiness” (Analysis 1). During the novel, Hemingway displays his anti-war message by showing how the characters indulge in distractions to escape the reality of war. Love and sex, alcohol, and religion are all ways characters distracted themselves.
War is such a debatable topic of whether it is just to wage a war on our neighbours or invade a country.One thing is very clear there are consequence and a cost. Martin Luther once stated,“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families”. This was exactly what did. War was not a fun game like what Jessie Pope described it as in her poem, ‘Who’s for the game’. What war did was it changed people and society. The war caused soldiers to suffer from PTSD, it left families to face the feeling of grief and it crippled the economy.