Soldier's Home By Krebs

• Introduction-o Use one or two sentences to express your personal opinions on the subject of the booko State the theme you conclude from the book(thesis)o Describe in general, how the author expresses such theme, i.e. by using characterization, symbolism, setting or conflicts, etc. (this will be where you lead in to your body paragraphs)
• Body-Write three paragraphs to explain how the author expresses the theme in his book. To describe each example, you need to include the following information. o What happened? What did the character do to show the theme?o What did the character say or think (quotes from the character, or the narrator)?o What is the consequence of his/her action?
• Conclusiono Restate your themeo What did you think of the theme? How has it affected you?
One of the story’s central concerns might be described by a term that was once fashionable: “the generation gap.” In “Soldier’s Home,” the gap is more like a chasm that separates the ex-Marine from the townspeople. Krebs returns from the war, changed by his experiences, but the local citizenry are exactly what they were before the war—sure of themselves and their values. To stay in the town, to survive this time warp, Krebs must compromise his integrity; he must lie if he is to live among people who do not want to hear the truth.
Krebs represents the transformation brought about by World War I, and in this sense his metamorphosis reflects America’s changed face. Before the war, the conventional values of Krebs’s hometown had been, for the most part, America’s values. After World War I, however, those values were challenged, and the war’s returnees were among the chief challengers. In “Soldier’s Home,” the conflict is between challenger and challenged—the tension between Americans moving into the modern world and Americans protecting Victorian