My drawing depicts 3 scenes from this selection. The first frame shows Niska stalking the french hunter from behind a bush. This is important because from the first time she saw him, she was immediately interested in him and started to plot a few things to mess with him. She followed the french hunter wherever he went and studied his every move. In the second frame I drew the french hunter following the tracks to Niska’s askihkan. This was Niska’s master plan to essentially trap the trapper which is why I titled my piece, “Trapping The Trapper”. Niska built the askihkan and left her tracks in the snow hoping that the french hunter would follow them and come inside. Niska’s plan was originally to tie the man up and put him to sleep so she can study his pale body. We see that things ended up differently which brings me to my last frame. I drew Niska staring into the eyes of the french hunter. Things became to get intimate after that and …show more content…
Slipknot was also a character who when just introduced in the film, ends up being blown up just a few scenes later. The part where Elijah is given morphine for his injury reminds and craves it after reminds me of when I am hungry and eat fast foods such as McDonalds I start to crave it again the next day. The part where the soldiers get time off to go to the estaminet to drink and hook up with prostitutes remind me of the time I went to Amsterdam and saw that those who were off from work would go out drinking at a bar or hook up with the prostitutes. The episode of where Elijah teaches Xavier how to write in English in residential school and ends up getting in trouble with Sister Magdalene reminds me of when I used to help my classmates with math in elementary school and ended up getting in trouble for talking during the silent work
Boyd talks about how everyone was very eager to volunteer to join the military to have fun and to make some money and it seemed to be very easy because the war was expected to be very short. Things started to look a bit different even when, the volunteers got to the first destination to be sworn into duty. They started to wonder why they were being sworn in to service for 3 years when they all thought the war was going to be very short. Boyd and the rest of them figured that the government must know something more than everyone else knows. Even during the beginning of the service the conditions for the service did not look as good as they had expected, and the officer had seen that the volunteers started having second guesses about doing it so they put them into more comfortable quarters to keep them from going home. During the war most of the time the conditions were horrible. There were many problems with the soldiers during the war. Many died from being wounded, being shot, and the worst of all was the disease. The conditions were so horrible that many men couldn't get enough sleep and even when they did get sleep they were sleeping in the rain or in the snow.
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
...and wounds soldiers but murdering their spirits. War hurts families and ruins lives. Both stories showed how boys became in terrible situations dealing with war.
Towards the end of the story I kind of felt just as the soldiers did, weighed down and dead tired. The second half of the story leaned toward the emotional burdens the soldiers went through besides the physical quantities.
Fussell believes that the soldier of world war two, "suffers so deeply from contempt and damage to his selfhood, from absurdity and boredom and chickenshit, that some anodyne is necessary", and that the anodyne of choice was alcohol. I would argue that Fussell is correct, especially regarding the connection between the absurdity of the war and the associated damage to soldiers image of themselves as good and patriotic, and the use of alcohol to block out the reality of the war. I think this connection is evident in the interviews presented in Terkel’s "The Good War", especially those of John Garcia and Eddie Costello.
Known today as two of the most prominent American satirists, Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut both served time as soldiers during World War II, Heller serving as a bombardier in Italy (Scoggins) and Vonnegut as a soldier and prisoner of war in Germany (Parr). Not coincidentally, both Heller’s 1961 novel Catch-22 and Vonnegut’s 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death follow the journeys of young men in combat during the Second World War – Captain John Yossarian of the US Army Air Forces and soldier Billy Pilgrim, respectively. While it is evident that these fictional novels are both set during the World War II era and convey bleak images of war, closer inspection of both texts brings to light the common
Setting up base camp in the church is included in O’Brien’s memoir to serve as a reminder of the calm and human kindness that is found during war. Staying in the peaceful church provided the platoon an opportunity to see a unique and personal side of Vietnam, one where the people “...brought us buckets of water. (O’Brien, 119)” and “... were very kind to all of us... (O’Brien, 120)”. This story brings out some of the less definitive qualities ...
The soldiers from this novel represent actual feelings about brotherhoods, misperceptions of war and the pointless fighting. They provide clear examples of these with their experiences from war. From sitting on their “boxes” and chatting, to the realization of a friend inside an enemy, these soldiers have been able to see the realities of war and have shared it with the rest of the world. People can now see how horrid it is to be in a war and now they try at all costs to prevent war. War is bad, that’s all there is to it. Not much more you can say about it except that. When viewing the death of innocent people, the question is asked once again, is it really worth it?
Fighting the Vietnam War dramatically changed the lives of everyone even remotely involved, especially the brave individuals actually fighting amidst the terror. One of the first things concerned when reading these war stories was the detail given in each case. Quotes and other specific pieces of information are given in each occurrence yet these stories were collected in 1981, over ten years following the brutal war. This definitely shows the magnitude of the war’s impact on these servicemen. These men, along with every other individual involved, went through a dramatic experience that will forever haunt their lives. Their minds are filled with scenes of exploding buildings, rape, cold-blooded killing, and bodies that resemble Swiss cheese.
The theme of this war story is very much applicable in real life as it was in the story. These three characters in the this story realize the hard way how warfare and violence can shape a person’s perspective on life. Each character experience death first hand through the deaths of their comrades and realize how important that life is. This is what Tim O’Brien’s character realizes from his experience during Vietnam that you cannot control the things that happen, like being drafted to a war you do not support, but you just have to go as life takes you and make the most out of the situation as much as you can. “And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It’s about sunlight. it’s about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things ou are afraid to do. it’s about love and memory. It’s about
In conclusion the soldiers use dark humor, daydreaming, and violent actions which all allow an escape from the horrors they had to go through in Vietnam. These coping mechanisms allowed the men to continue to fight and survive the war. They wouldn’t have been able to carry on if it wasn’t for the outlets these methods provided. Without humor, daydreaming, and violent actions, the war would have been unbearable for the men, and detrimental to their lives going forward.
The author, Tim O'Brien, is writing about an experience of a tour in the Vietnam conflict. This short story deals with inner conflicts of some individual soldiers and how they chose to deal with the realities of the Vietnam conflict, each in their own individual way as men, as soldiers.
...ance, people spend weeks living in cargo bins on large ships. Just for the chance, young men and women from foreign countries put on the uniform of the United States armed forces and fight a war.
This film is set during the Vietnam War. It follows a group of friends from a small, industrial Pennsylvania town. Half of the men of the group goes to war, while the other half stays home. Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage) and Nick (Christopher) are the three men who go to war. Stan (John Cazale) George Dzundza (John) and Chuck Aspegren (Axel) are the three who stay home, along with Nick’s girlfriend Linda (Meryl Streep) and Steven’s new wife Angela (Rutanya Alda). The film chronicles how war changes those who experienced it, including how they interact with their friends once they return.