If we have to look at regeneration as healing and more specifically, the process of healing the mind, then it implies that the patient has a mentally unstable condition and has to be helped back to a normal stable mental condition. The definition of a normal stable mental condition in every human falls within the range of this person's ability to access situations rationally and objectively, parallel with a sense of responsibility and duty towards the fellow people, the law and the social standards of the place, time and condition of the society that this person is a part of. The reaction, behavior or response to a given situation should bring balance or maintain balance in the situation for the sake of being reliable in the protection of security measures and the advancement of the generally understood purpose.
When an individual is exposed to a crises situation that causes severe shock, it can lead to a mental state which produces often unintentional, involuntary disturbing behavior. This behavior is usually connected to the specific crises which caused the shock and when this person encounters similar situations, it produces this often irrational reaction.
Every individual differs in personality and character and all are differently affected by the same crises. Among a group of people, only one may collapse mentally in a given crises. This means that the healing process involves not only dealing with the nature of the crises, but also about why this specific crisis had this effect of shock on this individual.
In this novel the author deals with the First World War’s harsh unthinkable conditions in which the soldiers had to fight. Crises were a daily part of their lives. All war conditions are crises conditions, but in this n...
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...ling, it is also his duty to his country, to prepare them ready to be boarded again.
During his last weeks, Sassoon manages to find a small cellar-like room where he could stay on his own and he starts to write a book. According to the name of the book, one can assume that he wrote a detailed description and explanation why the war went wrong and what ought to be done about it. The book's name is: "Counter-Attack".
Unwaveringly, he still holds his convictions against the war, even in front off the Assessing Board, but is convinced to not become a rebel, rather ready to return for another reason, returning to the fighting soldiers, for the fighting soldiers, ready to die.
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"You want perception; you go to a novelist not a psychiatrist."
~Sassoon.
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Regeneration by Pat Barker
breakdown (Meltzer, 1992). What people do in these circumstances is to erect individual and institutional defences against the psychotic anxieties engendered by
A long, long time ago, God decided to punish the wicked people, but before he did that, he instructed Noah to build an ark and fill it with two of every animal he can find along with his family. Animals and humans. The book I would like to use throughout this essay is “ Crossing ,” by Gary Paulsen. This book took place in Juarez, Mexico, where a bridge could mean so much. Each character in this book was being compared to an animal, to make us more understand about each of them. Each of them are also different. From the shape of their eyes, the way they react to something, and those are what made each of them different and special. Paulson compares animals and humans by their simliar characteristics and their behaviors.
Although Greenland and Australia are thousands of miles apart and very different in geography, they also have many similarities. In his book “Collapse”, Jared Diamond shows that both countries have the five factors that can contribute to a society’s collapse. Greenland’s Norse society already collapsed a long time ago, while Australia is still a First World country going strong. If some things there don’t change, the country’s living standard will go down and there could be major problems.
Crisis is an event that is unplanned, unwanted, and dangerous and leads to hard decision making. There are many different types of crisis such as economic crisis, mental health crisis, situational crisis, social crisis, adventitious crisis and many more. Every type of crisis affects people more than we think and know. There is always someone who loses and who gains during a crisis. People who lose are usually the ones who are affected the most such as losing a job, losing a family member or someone close to them, losing their homes and sometimes even their own lives. The people who gain are usually the rich people who prey on the poor and usually gain from making money and the poor’s lives miserable.
The book Unwind by Neal Shusterman is about the concept of unwinding an human being. Unwinding is the concept or process in which a child or teen’s organs and other parts of the body are taken out. These organs and body parts are then used to save other people’s lives. For example if a person doesn't have an arm then they could get an arm from an unwind. If someone is missing an organ then they could get one from an unwind. Many people may say or think if you unwind a person you are killing the person. However the government of this society says that they are still alive but just in a different way.
The two classic war novels ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ by Erich Maria Remarque and ‘Catch 22’ by Joseph Heller both provide a graphic insight into the life of soldiers serving their country in the historic world wars. One distinct theme of interest found in both books, is the way in which war has physically and mentally re-shaped the characters. Remarque creates the character Paul Baümer, a young soldier who exposes anxiety and PTSD (commonly known as Shellshock) through his accounts of WW1’s German army. ‘Catch 22’ however, is written in the third person and omnisciently explores insanity and bureaucracy in an American Bombardier Squadron through its utter lack of logic. The two novels use their structure, characters, symbolism and setting to make a spectacle of the way war re-shapes the soldiers.
SUMMARY OF CONTENTS: The subject matter of this book was a soldier’s personal experience in World War I. William’s involvement was from May 1915 to January 1920. The title of the book refers to a Holocaust, not that of Hitler, but of the aspirations of being a decorated was hero and glory for Germany to the horrors of poison gas, trench warfare, and war’s irreparable disruption of everyday life. He spent one year in the trenches of the Argonne Forest, two months in the sector of Verdun, and forty months in French captivity and then finally a full year rebuilding the destroyed area around Verdun after the war was over. He established many relationships, self-epiphanies, not so favorable treatment, and many other first hand occurrences throughout his servitude that provide a very vivid image of life as a soldier.
who were there but learn them in such a way that we are allowed to
In the novel, All Quiet On The Western Front, the author Erich Maria Remarque, uses figurative language and imagery to represent a soldier lifestyle in war. He introduces the main character Paul Bäumer alongside his fellow classmates in German army of World War I. The novel explain from the perspective of one incredibly observant young soldier, Paul Bäumer, who confesses details on the experience of life on the Western Front. This novel is best known for its horror image of trench warfare, and seek to have a determination of war. Through this novel, the author allow us to witness Paul’s perspective as identity, patriotism, morality, and dreams.
Throughout their lives, people must deal with the horrific and violent side of humanity. The side of humanity is shown through the act of war. This is shown in Erich Remarque’s novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front”. War is by far the most horrible thing that the human race has to go through. The participants in the war suffer irreversible damage by the atrocities they witness and the things they go through.
When the story begins, Sam is coming back from home with some news. He chose to join the war for freedom, but father disagrees.” In my house I will decide what constitutes treason. What have they been teaching you in college?” father said angrily (Collier & Collier). Then Sam took a big risk by talking back to his dad. Mr.Meeker that he
He had a negative attitude at the end. Sassoon discussed how he believed that the war he entered for defense became a war of aggression and conquest. He said how much suffering he said and he no longer can support those who he believes are evil.
Two words. Pet abandonment. How do you help prevent it? Only some people know. Pet abandonment is where human beings leave their animals out on the street so they starve to death or get killed by something. When the animal is found, it is usually found by a person who works at a pet shelter.The person takes them to a shelter where they can be taken care of until someone either adopts them or they reunite with their owner. Bu there are many problems with pet abandonment and many solutions for those problems. For example, Faye Carey is one person who helps prevent pet abandonment, but there are other ways to prevent it too.
Jones, Peter G, War and the Novelist: Appraising the American war Novel. University of Missouri Press, 1976. 5-6. Rpt. in Literary Themes for Students, War and Peace. Ed. Anne Marie Hacht. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 449-450. Print.
“ No novel since Red Badge of Courage and War and Peace has contained a more vivid or terrifyingly acute picture of the conditions of actual warfare and certainly no novel of our time since U.S.A has projected its theme on a more variegated background of human experiences. On page after page and in episode after episode. It is Mailer’s magnificent reportorial sense, his gift for evoking the tactile essence of a scene, that sustains the book and that will keep it alive at least as long as the events it describes live in the memory”.