The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien showed how the soldiers looked to each other for comfort in the traumatic situations they had to face in the war and used humor as a way to cope. ... In the beginning of this short story, Timhead shoots and kills a 12 year old boy during a firefight. ... I'll tell everyone I did it"(34). ... The Things They Carried showed how the soldiers looked to each other for comfort in the traumatic situations they had to face in the war and used humor as a way to cope. ... Killens, Joe faces trauma when he has to leave his family behind and uses humor...

• Word Count: 786
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This story shows his passage from being a young coward to a brave man. ... Crane never tells us of his age, appearance, or exactly where he is from. ... Crane points out that he is not a true man yet by referring to Henry as "the youth" throughout the story. ... He is loud, obnoxious, and he doesn't realize how scared he really is. ... The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane, emphasizes that individuals have different personalities and bases his story upon their diverse approaches to fighting in war. ...

• Word Count: 935
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Cranes uses imagery to aid the story in its expression that war isnot romantic. A reader of the Red Badge of Courage may notice how Crane transforms Henry's thoughts of war from romantic to real life. ... These in depth views into true warfare transform the reader as well as The Youth from a dreamer of war to one whom has witnessed the actions on the battlefield. ... In Stephen Cranes goal of showing war how it actually happens he chooses to display another truth of war that many people seem to overlook. ... In the last attempt of Stephen Crane he show...

• Word Count: 1213
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Afterwards, "Flora married John London, a Civil War veteran, who had recently moved to San Francisco, eight months after Jack was born."" (Wilson) While growing up, London never knew true happiness and because of this, he often turned to nature. ... In example, being an oyster pirate probably taught him how to survive on the lowest circumstances. During his time at the Klondike, he listened to other people tell their stories. After hearing their stories, he would collaborate a selected few and produce his own. ...

• Word Count: 454
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Ruby's role in the book was to be there to comfort and be a sympathetic listener for Ada, while the love of her life, Inman, was off at war. Throughout the book, we learn about how Ada is alone on a farm, waiting for Inman to return from the war. ... Swanger tells her that Ada needs help with farm. ... The stories that Ruby tells Ada about, the ones that include how her father never cared for her and how she had to do everything on her own, make Ada remember her own father and also gives her a different view of life, one in which she doesn't have to rely on anyone, she just needs her...

• Word Count: 524
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This past summer, my dream came true. ... We didn't know what to tell them or even what to order. ... In that time we were talking about how amazing this country is. ... It's their oldest city that had all the kind of the historical stories. One of the stories was about how they fight there world war. ...

• Word Count: 519
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The pictures and letters symbolized their past and what they left behind them when they went to the war. ... That was significant because it symbolizes that he has left his past and is know in the jungle concentrating on the war. ... Mark Fossie, her boyfriend, gets her to go back to how she was for a little but she returns to her wild way. ... Linda, Tim's first true love, died of a brain tumor when they were in the fifth grade. Tim tells stories about her in the novel and it almost feels like she is still alive. ...

• Word Count: 375
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Those innocent teenagers joined the war barely because of their enthusiasms, when they saw the true meaning of the war, all of their enthusiasms have gone, and they no longer believed that the war is honorable. ... The theme of the whole book is the horror and violence of the war, and how the superior leaders using young soldiers as their tools to against each other in the war. ... The descriptions of Paul's feelings were very meticulous, and gave the readers a impressive feeling about how terrible the war was. ... In order to lighten the guilt, Paul told the French soldier he would tell ...

• Word Count: 1152
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This story is about the errors in judgment a king makes while shrouded in a personal darkness. ... His youngest 7)Cordelia, tells him, from her noble and true heart, how she truly feels. ... He has given away the kingdom and perpetuated what will inevitably become a war of good versus evil. The storm of war raging around him personifies his internal struggle for reason and sanity. He painfully realizes how it has come to this. ...

• Word Count: 999
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Inventors, religious figures, political leaders and veterans who have survived wars are all considered to be heroes. ... In How to Tell a True War Story, Kiley thinks that Lemon died a hero because Lemon's spirits remain buoyant in the terrors of war. ... The "i" in the title is not capitalized, and this emphasizes how "i" is small compared to Olaf. ... This is seen clearly in The greatest Man in the World, where the media has to conceal Smurch's past, " the story of his life cannot be printed." ... We have images of how our heroes should look, what kind of houses they live in, wh...

• Word Count: 658
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

It was a statement that was true over a century ago and still holds true today. ... This premise is actually repetitive in telling stories of those who are able to find their true "social self."" ... In Dialogues in a Monastery the main character, Synesios tells his good friend Ipklisis why he decided to become a monk; he continues with a love story. ... They fall so deeply in love, but Synesios' good fortune is no more when his love, Nouty, tells him she must leave him to return to her husband, who earlier we learn was affected by fighting in the War. ... But, one's experience i...

• Word Count: 1245
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Once in awhile a film will come along that defies any notion of how a movie should be made. ... At its heart, Forrest Gump is a love story. ... The true essence of the film has to do with the people Forrest comes in contact with along his journey. ... Even though everyone around him considers him stupid, his mother plainly tells him that "stupid is as stupid does."" ... Their friendship began after the war and would later become shrimp-boat partners. ...

• Word Count: 1504
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Set in Paris and the Spanish city of Pamplona, this novel is a story of a World War I veteran and writer, Jake Barnes, and his group of expatriates as they try to find meaning to their lives in the 1920's. ... Jake was left physically disabled because of an injury he suffered during the war. ... Brett has lost her real true love, also her first true love, which, in my opinion, is one factor that prevents her from commitment. ... Jake comforts Brett as she tells him she has let Pedro Romero go and has decided to go back to Mike Campbell, the man to whom she was engaged. ... It is pretty a...

• Word Count: 1202
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. ... They also help build up his identity and true self. ... It reveals Patrick's true character. In the beginning of the story, it does not mention how he felt about the society he is living in. ... As the story progresses, his true character divulges and the readers learn more about him. ...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School

The story centers on him and his adventures. ... Wilson is full of bravado and speaks of how hard he will fight. ... Wilson makes it through that first battle unscaved; the same is true for Jim. ... The general tells the officers that the line is holding well and it will win the battle. ... Henry makes up a story about how he got separated and received the wound. ...

• Word Count: 818
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The play of Much Ado About Nothing is a love story that is directed by the very esteemed director by the name of Joseph Alberti, who hails from Boston Massachusetts. ... I was awestruck on how when the men first come into the play they are dressed as people that were a part of a gang or M.A.F.I.A. ... They could have showed the soldiers as men from the military coming back from war. ... She looked more of a bold and bratty personal because of the fact her hair was cut short (I know it sounds crazy but tell me does a heroine have long or short hair). ... He did his role so well that he had c...

• Word Count: 577
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This novel can be categorized as a love story, however it is more like a sequence of confusing events with a love story intertwined throughout. But isn't that exactly how our lives are today? ... She tells of how she needed to escape the feeling of imprisonment brought about by her sons death. ... Along with many sites during the Spanish Civil War, for several years until 1938. After Exupery finished his role in the war and the French began to invade, he moved to America. ...

• Word Count: 2037
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Lord of the Flies tells a tale of schoolboys, stranded on an island during the time of war. The youngest of them is of the age of six and the eldest of them is of twelve, and this is a story of how they struggle to keep order, to make days go by, to adjust and adapt, and to feed themselves. ... Your true, real self is exposed under those circumstances. ... He is the one who brings to life the beast, and brings true, literal hell on the island. ... How could there be? ...

• Word Count: 2332
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

This one was actually based on facts with a twisted love story that could have been somewhat true. ... He tells Wyatt and he flips out. ... Now it was time for a war to begin. ... Run and tell them! Tell them all! ...

• Word Count: 2350
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School