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The Desperate Coping Mechanisms of War and its Parasitic Aftermath
... of exposure to conditions that require the resilience to bury the emotions stirred by perceiving not only the gruesome reality of war but also the realities ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Hemmingway's Connections Between War and Culture
... enough to divert their minds from the reality of war. Even Lt. Henry has a way to get ... of it all, their nights full of merrymaking only serve to provide alleviation from the reality they face every day. Depicting the damages of war, Hemingway shows that war ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway
The Theme of Maturity in "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
... state in the summer of 1942 and began to get used to the rigors of war and labor to fully understand the realities of war; at the same ... in the war. They all realize that they must smarten up and become men, because it is time to face the reality of what is ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Timothy Findley's "The Wars" and Erich Remarques "All Quiet on the Western Front".
... reality of war. Also, his death proves that not everyone in the war gets killed by the enemy. Rodwell's suicide is more sad than anything, mainly because of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
This is a book review on the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and how the book relates to U.S. History and the civil war.
... between how the Youth pictures battling to be and the reality of war The Youth at first enjoys military life as he and ... anxiety is how he responded to war which was unpredictable to him in the beginning. In reality a soldier cannot predict whether ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Comparison of Tone in Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) and The Atonement (Ian McEwan)
... of Kid Sampson's feet remained in view. (Heller 348) This continues the tone of the horrific in the death of Snowden, hammering across the reality of war ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
War Art: Comparison of Tim O'Brien's memoir, "If I Die in a Combat Zone", and the movie "Apocalypse Now", directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
... of identity and conscience. He goes through a journey toward understanding how Kurtz, one of the Army's most decorated soldiers, penetrated the reality of war ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway: a 3 point thesis on Hemingway's characters' attitudes towards war, includes quotes
... to admit to the harsh realities of war. Gino believes that all great acts are done strictly out of the goodness in people's ... Arms takes place in Italy in World War I. The novel tells of the conflicts of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway
Essay describes the insanity of war in "Slaughterhouse Five" by Kurt Vonnegut.
... war is nonsense, senseless, full of coincidence, and is unexplainable. As a result of the trauma of Billy's war experience, he faces an inability to deal with reality ... of a war that alters his perception of life, and makes him unable to deal with reality ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
A comparision between the main characters of Hemmingways:farewell to arms and Charlies Harrisions: Generals Die in Bed
... Henry has seen many of his troops killed, as an ambulance driver, he has seen the grim realities of war but with his ... the grim realities of war but with his relationship with Catherine is the only escape from the shelled and bullet holed landscape of his ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway