In the movie, I really learned about war and warfare. You really can’t understand just how heart wrenching and scary it can be while ducking bullets and watching your comrades die, unless you are there. Imagine this: you are sending off screaming bullets while dodging them. All of a sudden, you hear a thump as one of your fellow soldiers fall to the ground beside you, you’ve heard the words “retreat” many times…
Red Badge of Courage is about a young soldier named Henry Fleming,who is drafted during the war. The book traces the thread of emotions and reactions to events that he goes through, in the civil war. Being an an average farmer from New York, Henry wanted to go to war and become a hero like the ones he has read about in his school. The book starts off with a bunch of boys sitting at camp by the river, and while everyone is thinking about what they will do in war and how heroic they would be, Henry was thinking of how he would react when he goes to the battlefields. How would he react if he was severely injured or even died? Though he said that, no matter what happens he will not run from a fight or a battle, he did, during the second war, when he was scared and he saw a few other soldiers scamper due to the smoke. Henry kept telling himself through and through that he was protecting himself, even when the…
“The youth started up with a little cry when his eyes first swept over this motionless mass of men, thick-spread upon the ground, pallid, and in strange postures.”…
Saving Private Ryan earned its awards for bringing back the realism of World War 2 and for portraying what the shocking chances of survival were at the historic battle of Omaha beach on D-Day in June 1944. Omaha beach was only one of the invasion sites of the American, British and Canadian coalition forces. The special reason why Steven Spielberg chose to direct his movie with Omaha beach as its backdrop was due to the fact that out of all the other landing sites, Omaha beach was the bloodiest battle field and it took 15,000 lives of young American soldiers to capture the beach. In the past, war genre films meant hardcore action and a hero waging a one man war against an army, a typical movie would be Rambo 3. Although it is based on a true story, it did not take one American to battle the whole Russian army with a bow and arrow. Saving Private Ryan brings back to life the real heroes that fought in a war, men who were willing to…
Clint Eastwood’s critical, box office and Academy Awards juggernaut tells the tale of Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), a prolific, er, American sniper, and his endeavours on and off the battlefield during the Iraq war. It’s a heavily lethargic adaptation of a heavily controversial book about a heavily divisive ‘American Hero’. Not to say that the flick itself is wildly patriotic – though the ending tries its best to disprove that – but nor is it an anti-war film, as director Eastwood haplessly attempts to argue. Which is where American Sniper’s greatest fault, among many faults, lies; it’s a film that is too afraid to carry any political heft, any commentary that would make the viewing experience worthwhile. As a result, the whole point of the film is rendered null.…
This demonstrates the media’s use of emotive language to engage the reader. Despite their similarities, Thompson’s account is pervaded with opinion while Pullen concentrates on a factual account of what occurred at the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Thompson’s article represents a field of journalism that unapologetically reports news from a subject point of view. Pullen, on the other hand, appears to recount the events as they occurred. However, his tone betrays the fact that he believes that the Reserve Army Forces acted admirably.…
Profiles In Courage is a book that focuses on the adversity that very few United States Senators have been willing to deal with in order to cultivate their ideas of better democracy. It focuses primarily on the independent thoughts and views that those few politicians have been willing to stand up for, with other odds against them.…
Facing fear, danger, or adversity in the physical or moral realm shapes a person’s identity and core values and often influences the psychological effects of a person. Courage, bravery, and responsibility often define the results of fear relative to the situation a person has overcome or failed. Military personnel experience a substantial amount of diverse situations which forces dynamic impacts of emotions with fear and courage the prime focus on the spectrum. To include war in the lives of military society adds an intense stress to address courage and fear in order for self-preservation of mind in those affected. In Tim Obrien’s If I Die in a Combat Zone, fear and courage are often relayed as a constant struggle frequently pushing the soldier’s…
Tim O’Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried, revolves around the frequent theme of courage however, his perception of courage is ignorant considering the actual meaning of courage. O’Brien uses courage as an antidote to the physical and moral weakness in the soldiers of Vietnam creating character obsession over his interchangeable perception of courage and weakness. Not going to war when drafted is perceived as weak, but O’Brien believes that going to war when one wants to flee is Canada is arguable weakness. O’Brien believes no matter how strong or courageous a solider presumes to be it will never seem to be enough; weakness will always prevail because they are “too frightened to be cowards” (24). In looking at all works of literature from…
That shows that my idea of war had many gaps , because there are things that movies don’t show, or misinterpret.. Not every soldier dies in a “nice”, poetic way like they show in the…
The Red Badge of Courage is a fictional short novel that was written by Stephen Crane in 1895. It is unique in the way that it changed the American view on how a war novel should be written. Previous war novels were written in a way that made two or more armies clash in a larger point of view. Crane wrote in the perspective of one man named Private Henry Fleming. Crane depicts how Henry is feeling, seeing, and what he is going through during the civil war. He is about to go untested into battle with his life hanging in the balance. Will he be able to survive?…
When someone thinks of a mature person some qualities that might come to mind are honesty, humility, and respect. Unfortunately they are traits that not everyone poses and some may never poses. In the beginning of the novel Henry is a whiney, unrealistic teenager. However overtime he starts to develop some traits that lead to him acting more mature, and adult-like in the environment he is in. In The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, Henry goes from being an immature teenager to demonstrating traits of an adult and reevaluates his own personal values of wanting the fame and glory of being a soldier, and also his value of taking responsibility for his actions.…
It is a well-known fact that every soldier that goes into combat takes the risk of losing his life. But what is not known, perhaps from repression of the thought or ignorance, is that it is not just a risk, but a guarantee that every soldier will lose his mind. Wounds can heal but horrific memories of the brutality of war will leave psychological scars will remain with the survivors. The movie, “The Hurt Locker” provoked me to think differently about the war in Iraq because I witnessed the emotional and psychological effects it had on the characters. Specifically in the scene when William James, the main character, thought that the body he had found with a bomb in it was a little boy he knew named Beckham. He lost his mind and threatened a merchant, making him drive James to Beckham’s murderer despite the fact that the man did not know. James wandered around aimlessly and recklessly that night only to find out later that Beckham was still alive.…
“‘Here they come!’” With these words the 304th regiment readied themselves for battle as the Confederate Army drew nearer, and Henry prepared himself to face his first moment of truth. In the novel The Red Badge of Courage, written by Stephen Crane, Henry struggled with the notion of what he would do once the time to fight actually came. The internal conflict between his courage and fear is illustrated in chapters 5 and 6, during his first and second battle of the Civil War. His vast difference of reactions to both battles had quite a few related causes.…
The contradiction of war being a courageous act for an individual is backfired when the unexpected occurs and one is faced with a complication of a post war condition. A healthy soldier is then diagnosed with an illness that cannot be self treated or controlled. This ends up being the result of what one pays for performing a good, courageous deed- protecting the honorary nation that is the United States of America.…