All Quiet on the Western Front‚ by Erich Maria Remarque‚ is considered an anti-war novel. Remarque states in the preface‚ “This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession‚ and least of all an adventure‚ for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with. It will simply tell of a generation of men who‚ even though they may have escaped the sells‚ were destroyed by the war” (preface). Erich makes it clear in the preface that war is not to be taken lightly‚ for it is something
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In a “ Mystery in Heroism” collins was too stubborn to back out of running across the battle in order to get water from the well‚ all his comrades either mocked him or told him he could not do it. After proving them all wrong by coming back alive and with water it ends up spilling. No one believed he could or would do it‚ saying things like “well if yeh want a drink so bad‚ why don’t yeh go git it!” in a mocking manner. But he proved them wrong by going to his captain and saying “ captain‚ i want
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The poem Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walter Whitman best represents the Civil War. This is because of how the author expresses the loud booming of the instruments. The music is meant to drown out any sound from the people‚ and distract them from their daily activities. People are not responding to this war cry‚ making the bugles and drums get louder and louder to drown out everyone from the mothers to the carpenters. Whitman’s tone is excitement‚ proved by the use of his exclamation points at the beginning
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This Means War War is a time when men are drafted to fight for their country. Henry Reed believes that the soldiers are wasting their lives fighting in the war‚ instead of being home with their loved ones. Henry Reed’s poem‚ “Naming of Parts‚” demonstrates his negative opinion of war‚ how there are two different speakers‚ and that there are different main ideas of the parts. First‚ Reed writes this poem in order to assert his beliefs about war. He believes that war represents the death of young
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Tim O’Brien‚ author of The Things They Carried‚ applies multiple techniques in his memoir in order to produce the theme of horror in war. He utilizes word connotation‚ literary/rhetorical techniques‚ sentence structure‚ and overall structure in the memoir. In an excerpt on page 199‚ O’Brien employs the combination of anaphora‚ metaphor‚ and negative word connotation to illustrate the horror of the Vietnam War. O’Brien often uses anaphora to emphasize his points within the sentences. Additionally
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The Transcendent Maverick Mark Twain‚ American humorist and novelist‚ captured a world audience with stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man’s shortcomings that is satirical while it probes‚ often bitterly‚ the roots of human behavior. Additionally‚ the many facets of Twain include: his incomparable humor‚ his revolutionary use of vernacular language‚ his exploration of the realities of American life‚ his irreverence and skepticism‚ his profound grappling with issues of race and his
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How could war be kind? War cannot be kind. Throughout Stephen Crane’s stories‚ we learn he is opposed to the civil war. Stephen Crane uses sarcasm in “War is Kind” and then gives gruesome details of a soldier’s experience in “A Mystery of Heroism” to prove he is opposed to the war. Sarcasm is meant to provoke thought and to poke fun at the other topic. “War is Kind” uses sarcasm to explain the horrors of war‚ and the effect it has on those related to those in the war. “Great is the battle-god‚ great
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Both the Bayeux Tapestry and the Portable War Memorial try depict or show just what the war looked like to the artists in different lights‚ while one glorified or showed the victory war can bring the other showed how war affects the present‚ and the awful side that can come from it. The Bayeux Tapestry is showing the events leading up to the Norman conquest in the Battle of Hastings. This work presents an accurate representation of a historical moment. It is from a Norman point of view‚ in that
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Vocabulary: lime (12) - “And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.” The quote speaks about a man in a fire so the word lime can be referring to something that is a sort of substance that is burning through the body. The Latin quotation (27-28)‚ from the Roman poet Horace‚ means “It is sweet and becoming to die for one’s country.” What is the poem’s comment on this statement? The poem’s comment on this statement is the restating of the title of the poem. The title translates from latin to english
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The caliginous effect of war has entailed the dehumanise of soldiers where death apprehends reality as killing the opposing mortal is a sign of success and failing for one’s country is futile as the soldier deceased and no longer needed. Wilford Owen delivers a starling message about the reality and costs of war. He highlights the dehumanisation and futile deaths of the soldier’s life’s in the year 1917 throughout the gloomy war in his poems Anthemed for doomed youth and the next war. In Wilford
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