Compare And Contrast Hitchhiker And An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge

Both Ted Hughes and Wilfred Owen present war in their poems “Bayonet Charge” and “Exposure”, respectively, as terrifying experiences, repeatedly mentioning the honest pointlessness of the entire ordeal to enhance the futility of the soldiers' deaths. Hughes’ “Bayonet Charge” focuses on one person's emotional struggle with their actions, displaying the disorientating and dehumanising qualities of war. Owen’s “Exposure”, on the other hand, depicts the impacts of war on the protagonists' nation, displaying the monotonous and unending futility of the situation by depicting the fate of soldiers who perished from hypothermia, exposed to the horrific conditions of open trench warfare before dawn.

In the essay “I’m Jumping Off the Bridge,” Kevin Sampsell argues that life has more meaning to it than what is recognizable in order to convince the audience that no matter what feelings one has inside, assuming that there is no one and nothing to live for is not the truth. Sampsell deals with his struggles of depression and harmful thoughts after he meets a man at his job that expresses his feelings and desires to commit suicide by jumping off of a bridge. In this essay, Sampsell uses morose word choices to effectively show insight, heartbreak, and the responsibilities that involve one’s life after death. He is eloquent in his description of pain and desolation and has a rhetorical appeal, oriented around pathos, in his relatability. The reader

What makes a person have diffrent thoughts, ideas, and opinons than others? What are the factors that decide if you support or hate slavery? What can lead you to death or victory? The story of “ A Occurence At Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce tells the story of a slave owner about to die. In the story we see the mans last thoughts and feelings. We see how afraid he is to die, and who was important enough to him for him to spare his last thoughts on. Peyton Farquhar is a slave owner minutes away from death, in this story we see what Peyton thinks he deserves and, what he values above all else.

Lion, directed by Garth Davis, is a compelling interpretation of a remarkable true story of Saroo Brierley, lost as a child and reunited with his family 25 years later. Throughout Davis explores the unique circumstances under which Saroo is separated and reconnected with his family and his journey along the way. At some points of the film, I was confronted by how Saroo, a five-year-old boy, expertely navigates, with great instinct and genuine innocence, through an extended, yet life threatening ride. To put it in other words, Lion is a journey that grabs you entirely; whether you want it or not, and you are involved in each and every scene.

One of the ways Beowulf proves himself as an epic hero is by performing extraordinary or superhuman deeds. One example from the book is when he travels to the land of the Danes to kill a beast that has killed all of Hrothgar’s (king of the Danes) men. The beast name is Grendel and he has been going to the Heriot Hall and killing men every night that he goes there. Beowulf battled Grendel with just his hands and during the fight Beowulf grabbed the beast’s arm and started twisting it, “He (Grendel) twisted in pain, and the bleeding sinews deep in his shoulder snapped, muscle and bone split and broke. The battle was over, Beowulf had been granted new glory; Grendel escaped… only to die, to wait for the end of his days.” Another way Beowulf performs superhuman deeds is by then going to kill Grendel’s mother. The Danes thought that they had achieved safety and could sleep in the mead hall again, but when they did another beast also known as Grendel’s mother took one of the Danes and went back to where she lived. When Beowulf heard of this attack, he immediately started taking the journey to the lake in which

The tragedy at sea that was the USS Indianapolis has greatly changed how the US Navy

The attitudes to grief over the loss of a loved one are presented in two thoroughly different ways in the two poems of ‘Funeral Blues’ and ‘Remember’. Some differences include the tone towards death as ‘Funeral Blues’ was written with a more mocking, sarcastic tone towards death and grieving the loss of a loved one, (even though it was later interpreted as a genuine expression of grief after the movie “Four Weddings and a Funeral” in 1994), whereas ‘Remember’ has a more sincere and heartfelt tone towards death. In addition, ‘Funeral Blues’ is entirely negative towards death not only forbidding themselves from moving on but also forbidding the world from moving on after the tragic passing of the loved one, whilst ‘Remember’ gives the griever

You won't believe what happens in Lucille Fletcher’s “The Hitchhiker,” Ronald Adams is running away from his problems but he keeps making them worse by chasing after them. This means that the more he runs away the angrier this man gets. Another theme that I found was that death is coming to claim what is rightfully his. This means that this mysterious man is trying to take something thing back that was once his. Fletcher uses craft techniques to develop the theme. The author tells what is happening in the story by putting in dialogue in her writing to make it more interesting. When the author uses dialogue for Adams, it just makes more conflict with the main character.

Readers, especially those reading historical fiction, always crave to find believable stories and realistic characters. Tim O’Brien gives them this in “The Things They Carried.” Like war, people and their stories are often complex. This novel is a collection stories that include these complex characters and their in depth stories, both of which are essential when telling stories of the Vietnam War. Using techniques common to postmodern writers, literary techniques, and a collection of emotional truths, O’Brien helps readers understand a wide perspective from the war, which ultimately makes the fictional stories he tells more believable.

This source is also trying to convey the positions that the artillery used to face and how the formation of the soldiers used to be. This secondary source is also trying to show or is showing puddles of water with means that the weather conditions that the soldiers used to face were harsh, especially when it was raining and cold where the ground would become heavy from the mud. Yogi has used the annotations to explain the parts of a trench in

He focused on the experiences of six men that enlisted in the army to battle in the war. The novel is told from the perspective of Paul, who shares his experiences as a young soldier fighting during a time of severity. He describes the massive bombardments, gas attacks, and explosions that were present as the war went on. As Paul began to live his life as a soldier along the front, he endured weeks of severe and brutal training that led him to the inevitably cruel aspects of the war. In order to express his experiences as a soldier at war, Paul used the words “The thunder of the guns swells to a single heavy roar and then breaks up again into separate explosions. The dry bursts of the machine guns rattle. Above us the air fulls with invisible swift movement, with howls, pipings, and hisses” (Remarque 59). Paul’s words describe the severities of the war that he and his companions went through as they endured a brutal life along the front during the period of conflict. As Paul joins the army to take part in the war, he endures the threatening sounds of the machine guns that were used for combat during the war. His experiences at war include a series of sounds that truly express the harshness and severities of the war. Remarque wrote “Then single shots crack out. But still it is not the end. The men cannot overtake the wounded beasts which fly in their pain, their wide open mouths full of

In both of the short stories, both of the main characters dies, but their conflicts are very different, as well as happens differently.

In the stories “Gwilan’s Harp” by Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Washwoman” by Isaac Singer, and “The Last Leaf” by O.Henry, the characters in the tale experience a feeling of great loss at some point of the story. These tragic losses are usually the passing away of a character’s loved one. In “Gwilan’s Harp” the husband of Gwilan, Torm, passes away from a fever during the winter, but at the end of the story, Gwilan musters the courage to cherish what she has left. The life of the humble washwoman in “The Washwoman” brought great joy to the people around her, and her resilience until death inspires others to stay strong and persevere regardless of circumstances. Finally, “The Last Leaf” tells of strong friendships and gives a heart stopping ending with the death of Behrman, a man seemingly worthless throughout his life, but proves his worth at the very last moments of his life. Overall, these authors elaborate on what lessons one can learn from life through loss.

Since forever, I had considered funerals as times when I had to find a formal pair of black shoes and act like I knew every person that I’ve ever met. Regardless, death was brought into my eyes and into my perception of the world when my Uncle Jim died and I attended my first true funeral.

Nothing is considered to be better than a lovely person called mother, her love, and care. Certainly, I can say with that I never understand the suffering from the unbearable loss of a dear person. The novel entitled “For One More Day” by Mitch Albom, had shown me on how it feels to lose our mother. I started to understand Charley Benetto’s feeling to lose someone that he loved. There are perhaps no appropriate words to describe this agony, at least none used on this world. This intolerable pain which tears us apart, which is like a stone on our heart, and which make tears run down our face with each reminiscence of the dear person who passed away. Time is unlikely to alleviate this pain, no matter what others claim. Sometimes there will be