Mans relationship to nature

Not only are they suffering, but loved ones associated with these victims also share the suffering. Loved ones must stay aside with these soldiers and must live with the fact that these victims will never be the same. They are hopeless because they cannot help them and although they care, they must keep distant. Kurt Vonnegut shares a bad relationship with his wife. He drives his wife “away with a breath like mustard gas and roses.” (Vonnegut 4).

At several points in the novel, Brett and Jake imagine what their lives could have been like together, had he not been injured during the war. Thus, his physical injury gives him emotional distress because he cannot have a relationship with the woman he always wanted. The traditional American perception of... ... middle of paper ... ...ositive combat experience if they have a positive attitude. Although Hemingway accurately illustrates the negative impact war has on soldiers emotionally, but he fails to address any positive learning experiences a soldier may have. Works Cited Spiller, Roger J.

PTSD prevents Billy from living a healthy life, which shows readers that the war does not stop after the fighting is over and the aftermath is ongoing. Billy Pilgrim’s story portrays the bombing and war in a negative light to readers, as Vonnegut shows the damaging effects of war on an individual, such as misperception of time, disconnect from peers, and inability to feel strong emotions, to overall create a stronger message. Billy Pilgrim time travels to various moments in his life at random, which suggests he has no power over his mind and the memories that haunt him. He “is spastic in time, (and) has no control over where he is going next” (Vonnegut 43), as he struggles to make sense of his past. Billy’s ability to remember events in an erratic sequence, mirrors the happenings of war.

Being oblivious to what all the others are feeling, the higher classes were stubborn to their established social dynamics. Because of this reason, Virginia Woolf integrates one of the characters Septimus Warren Smith as a way to show the differences between all of the characters that want to live their lives and move forward and the characters that aren’t lucky enough to do so. During the time, they’re facing problems because of the World War 1, and it’s completely tearing apart society. Septimus Warren Smith was a shell-shocked soldier meaning he had severe traumatic stress disorder from when he fought in the World War 1. He wasn’t really looked at as a hero; he was more of a survivor.

In Randall Jarrell's "The State," the speaker describes the sacrifices made by his family for the war. Although the speaker tries to rationalize giving his loved ones "for the State," in the end, he is left feeling empty and alone. Jarrell's use of understatement demonstrates the speaker’s agony and inability to cope with the devastation brought on by the war. Little, by little everything the speaker loves is take. Though at first he is unable to admit what the war has done to his family, the poem ends with the speaker’s realization.

For Krebs, lying led him to start rejecting his experience in war as being meaningful. “A distaste for everything that had happened to him in the war set in because of the lies he had told” (1). This indicates that Krebs feels he did something worthwhile and meaningful in the war. Krebs goes on to refer to this as “the one thing, the only thing for a man to do, easily and naturally” (1). Hemingway never tells what that one thing was.

Ung doesn’t understand why the villagers hated them so much and how that small detail would change their lives forever. Thus, the childhood wartime experiences had a negative impact on Ung’s life because it caused her to adapt to another lifestyle. All in all, the war weakened Wiesel’s faith in God, caused Beah to be in an uneasy state and have flashbacks of bad memories, and it caused Ung to adapt to a new lifestyle. Childhood wartime experiences have has a negative impact on the lives of Wiesel, Beah, and Ung. These children faced very harsh obstacles in their lives, and we, the people, should make sure that nothing like this will happen again.

After war, the real w... ... middle of paper ... ...not applicable in reality. This a problem that Jake, in The Sun Also Rises, faces. He does not like his friend group, he is jealous of Cohn and he despises Mike. He stays with them, not out of friendship, but because they share the experience of war. Because of this, the bonds forged have no real value outside of war.

Pi Ying’... ... middle of paper ... ...display how the average citizen would see war for the first time. Colonel Kelly sees her as “vacant and almost idiotic. She had taken refuge in deaf, blind, unfeeling shock” (Vonnegut 100). To a citizen who even understands the war process, war is still heinous and dubiously justified when viewed first hand. The man who seems to have coldly just given away her son’s life without the same instinct as her has participated in this heinous wartime atrocity for so long, but it only affect her now because she cannot conceive of the reality of it until it is personally in front of her.

These soldiers didn’t have the freedom to manage anything about their lives not even the smallest thing; everything was planned for them by the elders. “Baumer is finally profoundly aware of the freedom he has lost” (Frida). These disappointed youths that were misled into believing that the war would glory, honor, and an act of patriotism were exposed to the truth of the war. It was the treachery of the older generation. Ultimately, it is the disappointment that makes the world of the soldier difficult.