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    Home can be described in many meanings. In both short stories of “Eveline” by James Joyce and “Soldier’s Home” by Earnest Hemingway‚ it defined home in many similar and opposite ways against one another. Since both authors used different ways to uncover the protagonist’s story‚ they both resulted in different interpretations of “Home.” Both stories revolved around family affairs so both the protagonist’s mother and father played a major role in the story but they also shared similarities throughout

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    Spillane Dr. Wearne Literature February 17‚ 2015 Soldier’s Home A “Soldier’s Home”‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ relates to a man named Krebs‚ a previous soldier coming home and experiencing the repercussions of fighting in World War I. Hemingway depicts Krebs as feeling lonesome‚ out of place‚ and directionless throughout the story‚ and wanting to stay out of the emotional complications of society. During his time home from war‚ Krebs lives with his family who is blankly aware of his emotionless

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    “Soldier’s Home” The story “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway brought to life the trauma of return into one’s old life. The story was told from a third-point of view and its main character was Harold Krebs‚ a young man who had recently returned from the war. The story took place in Krebs hometown in Oklahoma. The central theme of the story was the change Harold made during his permanence in war. Through out the story‚ readers could assume that Harold Krebs left his hometown being one man and came

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    In Soldier’s Home‚ Ernest Hemingway depicts Harold Krebs return home from World War I and the problems he faces when dealing with his homecoming and transition back towards a normal life. After the fighting overseas commenced‚ it took Krebs a year to finally leave Europe and return to his family in Oklahoma. Once home‚ he found it hard to talk about all he had seen in his tour of duty overseas‚ which should be attributed to the fact that he saw action in some of the bloodiest‚ most crucial battles

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    SOLDIER’S HOME In the short story called SOLDIER’S HOME‚ by Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway‚ the main character Krebs has just returned from World War One in Europe. This is the perennial story of the hero leaving on some quest‚ only to return home finding everything different. Therefore‚ identity conflict holds the key to this story. Hemingway shows us how the hero must move on as there apparently is no such thing as a soldier’s home. Harold Krebs returns from World War I having

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    casualties were deaths or wounded. The wounds could have been something simple as a missing limb to as extreme as shell shocked. When soldiers were shell shocked they would often have no interest or a bad feeling about something they did while at war. In the short story‚ “A Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway‚ Krebs is a former college student and discharged soldier who is suffering from shell shock. Before the war‚ Krebs was going to college to become a minister. He enlisted in the Marines and was

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    Soldier’s Home: Harold’s simple life When looking at the title Soldiers Home by Ernest Hemingway‚ you can tell that the story will be about Harold coming back home after many dramatic events in world war I. He moves back to his parents’ house while trying to figure out what to do with the rest of his life. When he came back home from war‚ his war experiences changed his intentions of life. Even though Harold Krebs faced many dramatic events throughout his life his perspective of the future changed

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    The Unrecognized Soldier In the beginning of the short story “Soldier Home‚” by Ernest Hemingway‚ the main character‚ Harold Krebs is introduced as a young‚ religious‚ college frat boy who joins the Army along with some of his fellow peers. He spent 2 years in the Rhine and even took a photo with 2 unattractive German Ladies. When Krebs returns home to an almost unnatural world he feels unfit and unwelcome due to the lack of compassion and notoriety from his home town of Oklahoma. Hemingway says

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    Compare and Contrast of “Soldiers Home” and “How to Tell a True War Story” Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” and O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” are two similar yet contrasting stories. The Protagonists in both stories are soldiers of war but they fought in different wars. In Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” Harold‚ was a soldier returning from the First World War in Germany. In O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” Bob (Rat) Kiley was a soldier in Vietnam during the Vietnamese War. Both

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    A Soldiers Home In this essay I will identify the main theme of Ernest Hemingway’s poem “A Soldiers Home”‚ Langston Hughes “A Dream Deferred”‚ and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “On a Play Seen Twice” and how each theme displays beliefs and characteristics of the Modernist writing between 1915 and 1935. I will also analyze how Steinbeck’s imagery highlights his theme of loneliness and confinement in “The Chrysanthemum’s”. And lastly‚ I will explain how Oscar Casares creates a believable main character in

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