The readers get to witness how Henry grows as a man in result of the war. ... Henry goes to war believing that it would be exciting and action-packed. ... Many veterans of the war he praised The Red Badge of Courage for its accurate recreation of the feelings and events of war even though Crane never went to battle. In fact, Crane was born six years after the war ended. ... This novel, Cranes second published, has easily become his most important work of his career....

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Timothy Findley pieced The Wars together much like a puzzle. ... As when trying to understand the novel it is necessary to realize what the most important aspects are. ... It is her interpretations and ensuing reactions to the tragic events of the novel that reveal the most to the reader about Robert's relationship with her. ... Before Rowena's death and Robert leaving for the war Mrs. ... Ross missed her son when he went to war. ...

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Re-experiencing or reliving traumatic events that cause flashbacks and/or nightmares characterizes this illness. (helpguide.org) As he is reliving the traumatic events that occur during the war, he displays signs of this illness that include Depression and Alcoholism/Substance Abuse. ... They often link together depending on the traumatic event. (Nimn.nih.gov) Paul describes how the war has ruined the soldier's youth. ... He expresses how he feels hopeless and shows how certain things he and the soldiers once believed in aren't important to them anymore. ...

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"All's fair in love and war" said Francis Edward Smedley. ... Tolstoy's War and Peace. ... Tolstoy tenaciously held on to his belief that "the common people, workers and peasants, were the important factors in resolving the national crises of country." ... Such was Tolstoy's view of Napoleon, who is considered a great figure in history but in Tolstoy's reality had little to do with influencing historical events. ... In Tolstoy's portrayal of Kutuzov, the general "recognizes the impossibility of controlling events." ...

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One is the malevolence at war of the war to end and other is the effect off the war on the soldier. ... I believe the author's intent for this book was to show the world what war was really like and to tell them it was not a romantic event like may other books depicted. ... It was the first book to show how war really was and it let young readers who did not really know anything about war in a way experience war. ... This quote is important because it shows how the experience of war kills the soldiers' innocence and essentially kills them inside. ... - This quote is ver6 important b...

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This story, like all his others, takes a look at the south just after the Civil War, which is the which is the Faulkner lived. ... The plot of this novel is summed up in the first two chapters, and is all about this one family and the events that happen to it. ... Quentin although realizes this is not her reason for telling this story to him, does hit on a very important point. ... Faulkner was very preoccupied with the south and its destruction from the Civil War, and this again is Faulkner saying do no judge a book by its cover. ... Some of the details are so strewn out Faulkner expects ...

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Art and literature that represents events and social conditions as they actually are without idealization involved is called realism. One of the most important realists was Gustav Flaubert of France. ... The Russian, Leo Tolstoy in his monumental novel War and Peace showed war not as a romantic adventure but as a vast confusion of misery and death The subject mater of much romantic literature and art had little to do with the lives of ordinary people. ...

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The Escape of the Horrors of War as shown through the novel A Farewell to Arms At a time of war one must be able to distract their mind from the unjustified horrors that one may encounter at a time of war. ... (pg. 65) For all of the soldiers that are in the war girls are the best ways for them to keep their minds off of the war. ... Having friends like Ranildi, that you can trust and that will do anything for you at a time of need is very important to someone like Frederic who is caught in a domineering situation in life. Through Frederic's relationship with Catherine Barkley, H...

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He grew up exploring the hills, forest and lake near his father's estate where he acquired that play so important a role in his fiction and non-fiction. ... In the novel this thematic problem is slow in development--in fact, we are hardly aware of it until mid-point--and even as it comes into the cutting edge of action toward the end, it is silenced by Cooper at the very time that it becomes the most immediate encouragement for the hair-raising events that bring the novel to its close. ... When the force of progress challenged the condition of "place", the following event too often...

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This is a story where love and war collide after a soldier brings his sweetheart to his Vietnamese post. On the whole, this chapter in The Things They Carried is far superior to the film, The Soldier's Sweetheart, because it has thorough descriptions of characters" feelings, including symbolism concerning objects and important events. ... She was not only into the Vietnamese way of life, but she was also into the life of a soldier in war. ... It is able to do this because it depicts important underlying messages and incidents. ... In the novel and movie, both these symbols and events assi...

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It was first published in 1973 and was written during the "Cold War." The plot of the novel is basically about isolation and the struggle to survive the after effects of a nuclear war. ... In chapter sixteen, for instance Loomis hints to Ann that he has intentions of having sex with her: "The important thing is not to let the species die out." ... A chain of events helps her to make a final decision to steal the radioactive wagon and safe suit to go in search of a better life, but first she arranges to meet Loomis to tell him of her plans: " Not come back? ... As we have seen on numero...

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It was first published in 1973 and was written during the "Cold War." The plot of the novel is basically about isolation and the struggle to survive the after effects of a nuclear war. ... In chapter sixteen, for instance Loomis hints to Ann that he has intentions of having sex with her: "The important thing is not to let the species die out." ... A chain of events helps her to make a final decision to steal the radioactive wagon and safe suit to go in search of a better life, but first she arranges to meet Loomis to tell him of her plans: " Not come back? ... As we have seen on numero...

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After the war of independence , they were Americans in a more precise sense: citizens of a nation whose new sovereignty was internationally recognized. ... We could better understand his writings if we place it in the context of the events that took place in America then, what is called the jazz age, the generation in flames or the lost generation, Fitzgerald became the spokesman of all this, jazz being the lively music coming from the west, the pursuit of pleasure, excessive drinking and endless parties, , all of this he was part of it, yet as writer , he also so the grim disillusionment in t...

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The setting for Cold Mountain is in the state of North Carolina during the Civil War time period. Most of the key events happen in Cold Mountain. ... Inman deserts the Confederate army a few years after the start of the war, and he tries to go back to Cold Mountain where he can find Ada's home. ... In Ada's case from the harm of public opinion, and in Inman's case from the harm of war. ... And to achieve balance the most important factors that should be present are similarity, and deference. ...

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All these other, more important aspects, can be seen in Markus Zusak's The Book Thief. The most important role of a novel is to broaden our understanding of human nature. ... Before the war, Hans painted Jewish homes and refused to join the Nazi party, even though his actions alone could have little impact on the deportation of Jews or the war itself. ... Zusak's decision to set his World War Two novel in domestic Germany itself challenges our view. ... More importantly we are shown that not all Germans supported the Nazis. ...

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Ralph, Simon, and Jack all proved to be monumentally important to the cause of events that followed their survival of the plane crash with their each distinct personality and how they handled the situation of being stranded on a deserted island. ... Eventually, when Jack rejects Ralph's democratic order and creates an anarchy on another side of the island, the other boys decide that hunting and mean are more important than the minute chance of being rescued. ... Towards the middle of the novel, mostly due to Jack's hunting had become an event everyone participated in. ... One can j...

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In 1942 Salinger was drafted into the army in which he served through World War II. In the war he served as an interrogator in the Counter-Intelligence Corps and a participant in the D-Day offensive and the campaign to liberate France. ... All of these events in his life have had an effect on all his novels (Morrill, J.D. ... He was inspired to write by his short story writing professor as well as events from his own life (Jerome). ... Many people also think that the novel is very engaging with several twists and turns, but more importantly, the "unique story of a unique child" (Lomazoff). ...

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The novel deals with tragic and provocative scenes of terror and an ongoing timeline of events to follow a pack of boys on an incredible journey while a nuclear war continues on back home. ... As the boys started out on the adventure of a lifetime they never expected to lose something so very important -- their sanity. ...

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It was written by Robert O" Brien which was first published in 1973 and was written during the "Cold War", wrote it. The plot of the novel is basically about isolation and the struggle to survive not directly a nuclear war but the after effects. ... A nuclear war has left Ann all alone, as her complete family have been killed by the disaster: "When I look beyond I see that all the trees are dead, and there is never a sign of anything moving. ... In chapter sixteen, for instance Loomis hints to Ann that he has intentions of having sex with her: "The important thing is not to let the spec...

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The role of different types of danger drives humanity to react in a particular way, and in the two apocalyptic novels, On the Beach by Nevil Shute and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the main characters live out their last days after a global nuclear war and an unexplained apocalyptic event respectively with unique reactions to the threats. ... The plot of the former piece predominantly revolves around the depressing reality of the aftermath of a nuclear war among the Arab League, Israel, Russia, China and NATO. ... While the rest of the characters know that there is nothing left to do to save th...

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Insinuations to the Nazi Holocaust and the holocaust of nuclear war are copious in Not Wanted on the Voyage. ... I strongly think that Not Wanted on the Voyage not only renders the ludicrousness of the killing-healing paradox of the nature of war, but more it poses a problem on the hierarchal system, by giving those in power the right to kill. ... Findley simply organizes an " us/them, good/evil, rebel/oppressor binary, an ideological presumption foundation to the culture of war and the study of oppression and colonialism". ... Figures like Lucy stand for the most profound challenge to Noah&...

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Henty, an Englishman who wrote of wars through the nineteenth century. ... The young man's boss was a seventy-nine-year-old wrangler raised by Apaches, who had ridden on war parties with Nana and Geronimo. ... He tired his hand at writing during his travels, but his scribblings didn't include events as familiar as his Western heritage (Hall). ... The most important thing to Louie was the mail that he received from his fans. The mail was more important than what critics had to say about his work because the critics were not the ones who were reading his books. ...

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One of these is the reason, circumstances and events that cause Willard to travel up the river in the first place. ... Regardless of the situation, and physical appearance of Kurtz, the most important thing is how the functions of society; be it British or American imperialism, fail to impose complete power over the inner existence of our basic, primal, instinctual entity. ... This metamorphosis is portrayed in detail in Apocalypse Now, an example is the black soldier reverting to primitive, Zulu- like war styles and the white soldier being a part of the Vietnamese ritual in the final scene. ...

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Although a plane that was under attack during an atomic war dropped them, Ralph thinks he is in a paradise. ... It is therefore a novel about ideas, and its themes are as important as its plot. ... John's mother, Linda, became pregnant accidentally, a very unusual event in the brave new world. ...

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(Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' ... Or a fortuitous confluence of events? ... To a degree, the English-speaking world has become his audience, even though the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. ...

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