The Aural Motif of the movie of the film is “No one gets left behind!”, that is the biggest the phrase and the most important in the film. Yes the military troops came in Somalia to complete a mission, but they all knew that no matter what happens no one gets left behind, dead or alive everybody is going home. This phrase goes on repeated through out the war scenes, the phrase is basically burned into each of their minds. examples: When the first Black Hawk Super 61 went down, even thought the military was split up they were ordered to get to the crash site the fastest they could. They had to secure the perimeter and check for survivors. When the scene goes back to General Garrison that’s when he ordered them to hurry and said the phrase “No
As the war progresses, Caputo requests to go to a line company in the middle of November. This is a change from the “office” position he currently held where he was largely responsible for counting casualties. At this point, the romanticized visions Caputo had of war have been completely shattered and he goes into this transfer being fully aware of this. This change in viewpoint becomes even more clear when compared to the beginning of the novel where Caputo was intrigued by the romance and action of war. While readers would expect more action and typical war stories in this section of the book, Philip Caputo writes anything but. Caputo writes, “It went like that for the rest of the month. It was a time of little action and endless misery…Almost every hour of every night, the radio operators chanted, ‘All secure. Situation remains the same’ (1996: 240). Caputo repeats the phrase “All secure. Situation remains the same” five times throughout this single paragraph. Because of this, readers see the dull and mundane side of war that is often not talked about. In addition, Caputo continues to comment of the large amounts of waiting throughout the autobiography. When most think of the Vietnam War, they picture the “main events”. Similar to the numerous documentaries we watched in class, some of the main points of the war include: The first Indochina War, The Gulf of Tonkin, and the Tet Offensive. These documentaries all focused on these monumental events and because of this, the public perceives this war as the sum of these events. However, what many fail to consider the large gaps in time between these events. It is in these large gaps that little action occurred and most of the soldier’s time was spent waiting as Caputo depicted in this scene. In connection with
A prominent theme in A Long Way Gone is about the loss of innocence from the involvement in the war. A Long Way Gone is the memoir of a young boy, Ishmael Beah, wanders in Sierra Leone who struggles for survival. Hoping to survive, he ended up raiding villages from the rebels and killing everyone. One theme in A long Way Gone is that war give innocent people the lust for revenge, destroys childhood and war became part of their daily life.
In the book “The Things They Carried”, O’Brien uses imagery, figurative language and repetition to convey his message. O’Brien’s purpose for story telling, is to clear his conscience of war and to tell the stories of soldiers who were forgotten by society. Many young men were sent to war, despite opposing it. They believed it was “wrong” to be sent to their deaths. Sadly, no one realizes a person’s significance until they die. Only remembering how they lived rather than acknowledging their existence when they were alive.
...oung American men had to endure from the time that they had joined back in their boot camp days, and the brutality of war that showed them no mercy. To me the importance of the movie was to show what truly went on over in Vietnam through the eyes of a soldiers eyes of what happened, as the film created a very disturbing yet a real picture of The Vietnam War.
Tim O’Brien, when writing “Where Have You Gone Charming Billy?”, wanted his reader to understand many things about war. He wants us to understand how hard it is to get over killing someone and the emotions you have when you’re at war. Also, he wants us to know how alert and agile you have to be at all times.
...lot of war veterans, a confusion that illuminates the mind and eventually lead to self-destructing acts. The theme of confusion looms in and out of The Things They Carried as a setback of living the life of war.
Gunshots, Fire, bombs, all flying in the sky. Men in uniform are scattering for shelter. It seemed all to simple for General Grant, “Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.”
The Need for The Continued Resilience of the American People during the Later Days of The War as Exemplified in MGM’s “They Were Expendable”.
Upon closer inspection, one may find the nature of a shadow to share a striking likeness to the darker aspects of human emotion. Waning by day and ubiquitous by night, as apprehension shrinks from confidence and thrives with ambiguity, shadows clearly display many symbolic characteristics of fear. Throughout his novel, A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens visually illustrates this concept through numerous instances of his own motif of shadows. He makes use of the prevalence of oppression regarding eighteenth century France and its observably dehumanizing effects on its victims, specifically Alexandre and Lucie Manette as well as the entire peasant class, to form the image of a fearful target, frequently faced with the shadow of its own repressed fears. As evidence shows, Dickens appropriately uses visual imagery to depict how the motif of shadows corresponds with apprehension and fear.
General Douglas MacArthur at the end of the speech, in order to again arose the feeling from the audience uses pathos. To get audience feel how the battlefield full of gunshots and how they felt living on a battlefield in which they can just die instantly with one wrong move. MacArthur starts the sentence with, " In my dreams, " telling audience these soldiers sleep traumatic in their nightmares. With this, audience can understand how much these soldiers had devoted themselves to their country and may as well want to do the same to be a loyal
All Quiet on the Western Front was never written to be like the movies we watch today. When people go to see a movie about war, they typically expect watch a story jam packed with action from start to finish. All Quiet on the Western Front, also has this kind of battle from beginning to end, but was never intended to tell the common sci-fi adventure of which it could be associated to. It is made to speak against the terrible conditions which men had to face in world war won. The movie shows us, that even though there were so many casualties in the aftermath of World War One, there are some things in the world worse than death. The opening of the movie tells how the film is not an accusation, a confession, or an adventure, and the deaths of war not only affect those killed, but also those who did the killing, and everybody around them.
Although there were many concepts that were present within the movie, I choose to focus on two that I thought to be most important. The first is the realistic conflict theory. Our textbook defines this as, “the view that prejudice...
Black Hawk Down is in fact a representation of the events that took place in Somalia in October of 1993 when U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. However, the central idea of the film is clearly the ideas of extreme heroism and camaraderie. Though all of the men in the film could not be saved, the love and commitment they have for each other makes up for it, and behind all of the gunfire, bloodshed, and dead bodies we see the two come together in this film.
This scene marks the lowest point in the film for the Americans, and this is the moment you realize that even though the mission is a huge failure, it wasn’t a complete loss because the mission objective ultimately became to just survive. The power of this sequence is amazing, and it captures the heroic actions of these men giving their lives as they adhere to the brotherly code of “leave no man behind.” The movie's implied message is that America on that day lost its resolve to risk American lives in distant and obscure struggles, and that mindset weakened our stance against terrorism.
Does originality/individuality exist? How original is that book you just read or that song you listen to all day? Is it really that original that no one else in the world has done something similar than that? It’s likely that that artist or author probably got inspiration from someone else’s art and made changes and made it their own, it’s never one’s own individual idea. That is known as intertextuality. Intertextualities is taking ideas from someone else and incorporating it into your own as well as creating references any kind of media text through another. In Porter’s reading, he described it as, “The principle that all writing and speech arise from a single network.” This sort of thing is seen quite a lot in the music industry community with artists, specifically in music videos. Although intertextuality is basically copying other people’s work without giving credit, it’s a great way to help other people understand the topic through a different perspective.