Hero Of War 'And Citizen Soldier' By Ted Kotcheff

Intro:Many people are affected by war because of what happens and how they feel during war. The four texts I have studied which portray soldiers in a certain way are ‘Hero of War’ a song by Rise Against, ‘First Blood’ a movie by Ted Kotcheff, ‘Who’s for the game’ a poem by Jessie Pope and ‘Citizen Soldier’ a song by 3 doors down. The portrayal of soldiers is important because people perceive soldiers in different ways. The texts Citizen Soldier and Who’s for the game portray soldiers as being heroic and war in a positive way in comparison to Hero of War and First Blood which show the audience the negative impact on human lives that war can have.

Paragraph 1:The song ‘Hero of War’ by Rise Against tells in the songs lyrics that soldiers go to

In ‘First Blood’ Rambo the soldier in the film suffers from psychological trauma. During the Vietnam war, Rambo was captured and forced into a prisoner of war (POW) camp where he was tortured regularly by the Vietnamese soldiers. When Rambo returned from war he came across a small town in Washington looking for somewhere to sleep and eat. He was told by a sergeant to leave but he resisted to go. The sergeant them threw him in his car and took him to the station where he was beaten and assaulted. This experience gave Rambo flashbacks of when he was in the POW Camp in Vietnam. The director uses a mid-shot of rambo fighting against the officers showing his anger to emphasize that because of his flashbacks when the sergeants do something threatening to him he remembers its and gets fired up. This leads the audience to believe that many survivors from war will later in life suffer from Post Traumatic Stress leaving them scarred with upsetting memories that won't go away. This Movie is similar to the song ‘Hero of War’ because the soldier in both texts are portrayed negatively and that they shouldn't have gone to war because of the