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Search term: reality-of-war
This is a book report of All Quiet on the Western Front, by Maria Remarque, on of the best War novels of all time.
... reality of the war. They enter the war fresh from school, knowing nothing except the environment of hopeful youth and they come to a premature maturity with the war ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Moral Struggle. It traces American theme of moral struggle through Modernism, citing JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, and through Realism with WD Howells's Editha.
... in comparison, glorifies war and sees only the outcome and the grand finish. The conditions of the time of war are evident ... victims of society. There was much concern with immediate ethical consequences of everyday life. It attempted to re-create reality ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The emotional journey of Henry Fleming in Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage.
... image of war portrays an ideal battle where he is always the invincible hero who comes out on top. His naïve vision of war, however, ... cowardice and shame. During this phase, Henry's fears turn into reality as he actually runs away from a battle. "He, too, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Joy of Cooking: Like Water for Chocolate. A comparison of the novel by Laura Esquivel to the 1992 movie. Work Cited included.
... necessity of taking on their perspective. The shifting nature of this hybrid genre works to keep the viewer from reconstructing the ?realities? of life ... begins to blaze. Far off, one of Pancho Villa?s men is drawn from his war to the heavenly fragrance by ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Ash Garden, By Dennis Bock is a Moving Portrait of Two Lives, Damaged and Changed by the War, it is a Haunting Mediation on the uses of Memory and its Power to Both Condemn and Redeem
... his way to work, "Whose son will die in the last minute of war? [Anton] mouthed the words. Minutes count! He'd stand on the ... that is not quite as noticeably scarred by World War II as Emiko, but is in reality completely torn over it. His scarring is more ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Death's Empowerment Over Life-Analysis of Louis Simpson's poem, Carentan O Carentan
... of the important aspects of life, successfully instilled an unrelenting fear of death, and made him overlook the positive effects of war. He could not defeat the force of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
"Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo: The Conflict of Life and Death
... of Joe's mind, can assume that this shows precisely how he thought. After the traumatizing events of war, Joe slowly has realizations of his reality ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Pipe Dreams: The Lifeblood of Ruin and Despair in "The Iceman Cometh".
... lack of the usual tipple can be equated with the lack of pipe dreams, without both, they are weak and fear the reality of their situation, ... as Piet Wetjoen and Cecil Lewis; both were in the Boer War on opposite sides. The drunks live on their pipe dreams, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
An Essay drawing connections between the Vietnam War and the fictional novel of "The Things They Carried".
... Realities" Vietnam Remembered. 1996. 4 May 2006. Caputo, Philip. A RUMOR OF WAR: Ballantine Books, New York 1978 Cristan G Appy. Patriots: The Vietnam War ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Comparison of the writing tactics used in "The Things They Carried" by Tim O' Brien and "Dien Cai Dau" by Yusef Komunyakaa
... the war that they were on the brink of insanity. The war was interfering with the soldiers' grip on reality ... of the experiences of war. Similar to O'Brien's examples, Yusef Komunyakaa has his own effective ways of expressing the same theme through the use of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American