The following year he entered World War I as a volunteer with American Red Cross ambulance unit as a driver. ... THEMES In "The Snows of Kilimanjaro- Harry himself regards his life as a failure. ... He lays on his cot where he flashes back to scenes from his life that he has saved to write, taking pleasure in their recall but knowing he will never write about them. ... Therefore the theme is don't put off what you could have done today to do tomorrow. ... That is a theme for "In Another Country-. ...

• Word Count: 3440
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The Silent One," on the other hand is more vivid with its theme of futility in war for "honorable/heroic deeds," as Gurney emphasizes how "heroes" die in combat and cowards live (Greenblatt 2029). ... His later poems, after the war, continue to use the same themes that seriously depict his unstable mind. ... However his studies were quickly halted by the outbreak of World War I. ... He's tormented with the death of his friend and struggles to remove the picture of a " red wet Thing," that he states, "I must somehow forget,"(2028). ... Th...

• Word Count: 2929
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Joe's own son, Larry, a military pilot, dies en route to China in a related crash. ... In Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," money and responsibility play a huge role as themes, as does loyalty. ... You lay forty years into a business and they knock you out in five minutes, what could I do, let them take forty years, let them take my life away?... Here Keller attempts even to lay blame on his son's shoulders. ... He struggles with his own American Dream, saying "I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other peopl...

• Word Count: 2731
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As he lay awake in bed that night, the narrator looked at a history of Dresden published in 1908. ... The book, Céline and His Vision, is a story of a French soldier whose skull gets cracked during World War I. ... It has been a couple of years since I first read Slaughterhouse Five, and I'm glad I got the chance to read it again. ... His father died in a hunting accident before Billy left for Europe. ... While he was in the hospital, his wife died of carbon monoxide poisoning. ...

• Word Count: 7795
• Approx Pages: 31
• Grade Level: High School