A Family at War

Set in World War 2 “Break of Day” is a historical fiction written by Australian author Tony Palmer which follows Murray Barrett, a coward, through war. Tony Palmer depicts themes of bravery, family and death in his novel. He states that even someone considered a coward can learn to have courage throughout a journey. Palmer portrays the view on family that people can grow, change and adapt to support and care for their family. Death is illustrated as unjust and unfair before the war, and when…

“War is Kind” by Stephen Crane is a poem extremely critical of war and questions if the war and the death and destructions that the results are truly worth it. Crane uses sarcasm and irony to move the reader to be critical towards war and to see the pain it the causes. The pain suffered by the soldier is obvious, but this poem shows the pain that family members of the soldiers suffer as well. The repeated chorus, “Do not weep/for war is kind,” ties the emotional experience and the actual…

Nathan Bedford Forrest once said, "war means fighting, and fighting means killing." The Civil War is known as America’s bloodiest conflict in history. Thousands of people died of disease and approximately 620,000 soldiers died in the line of duty (Civil War Casualties). During the Civil War, many groups of people were affected as they lived through the conflict between the Northern and Southern states. For some groups of people, they experienced negative impacts, while for others it was not as…

Grave of Fireflies and Barefoot Gen are two famous anime dramas that depict the grave effects that World War II had on Japan. The devastations felt by the Japanese people after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are seen through the eyes of young children as they provide for their surviving family members. Each drama illustrates autobiographical journeys through the trials and tribulations of war. Throughout this paper I will analyze the two protagonists, similarities and differences between…

written about soldiers' experiences of war in Vietnam. The 'things' the author mentions in the title is both figurative and literal. With this comes burdens kept close both by the soldier and the family. When someone goes off to war, there is trauma everywhere. Obviously, the soldier is highly effected by the circumstances; however, through research, it is seen that perhaps even the family is even more traumatized. Even when we are not at war, military families often deal with stresses such as…

Against the War Wars have been a huge and devastating part of making the world what it is today. In the book My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier, the brutalities are heightened. They wrote about the division of families, the clash of generations, and how principle faces reality. The authors give the allusion that they are against the war that is raging rapidly threw the colonies. One of the main ideas of the book is how families get divided. There is a quote…

translated many different ways, yet the dialogue can still be interpreted to show very similar translations. Through the interpretations it is noticeable that Homer does not like war. Homer does not like war because war causes people suffer, and to lose their morals. Throughout History and Homers Iliad, wars have left families torn apart and emotionally weak. First , Homer shows emotional weakness through simile “like a beard lion whose cubs some deer hunter has smuggled out of the dense…

annual lottery. During this lottery every family in the village must go select a card. The lucky family that gets the card with the black dot must go select again. The family member who gets the black dot again, ends up getting stoned to death by the fellow villagers. This story was greatly impacted by history, and its past wars, and women’s rights. Around the time period when “The Lottery” was written there was a huge war that had just ended. World War II had started in 1939 and ended in 1945.…

Period: 1 In the story Civil Peace Jonathan was a survived of the war and considered himself very lucky. He looked at all the positive things never focused on the negatives him and his family suffered through a lot. One good example that show he sees everything in a positive way is when the war was over he lost one of his kids but did worry about that he focused on the family he had alive instead up being upset. Another good example he found his house destroyed but found…

Lost but not Forgotten War is a necessary evil. America was set free by the Revolutionary War. We thrive in war time as a country, but it can take a toll on the individuals who fight for our freedom. The soldiers who do so sacrifice not only their bodies, but their minds. The battle isn’t over once they return. One of the biggest obstacles they have to overcome is the adjustment to normalcy. At the end of World War I many young men were returning from Europe and finding out that they had a full…