Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
That was during the hour that I was the most confused and mixed the real deaths of the soldiers with that of an imaginary private. He died in a story about WWI. Thirty-six years have passed since I stood in that darkness, which was mitigated by an outside light. Tonight, I remember the silence I shared with the dead. I rise and face my life for no other reason than I was young once like those I stood guard over, and for them who died for God knows what, I wish to give back the year 1971 along with the clouds, the rain, and the dampness, soaking my boots. I give them the one, outside light that kept me from total darkness. And to history, I give back that awful silence, draping the dead. It was like the silence in the novel written by a German
Creative Writing: After The Cold War
443 Words | 2 PagesKristina and Trey gathered all of their little belongings mostly caring about the lockbox containing about $3,600 of the finest mexican glass a.k.a meth. Rushing out of their little apartment as soon as possible after seeing a wanted picture in the newspaper of kristina stealing money illegally with a fake id. She thought it was odd that she had very very little remorse about getting up and leaving without saying goodbye to her baby that wouldn't even recognize her, her mom which she stole her identity and money from. It didn't phase her and she kept loading what little belongings she had into Trey's mustang. They rushed onto the snowy freeway still tweaked as usual, but exhausted from no sleep like usual and running from the police and the mexican drug lord that they owe and weren't planning on paying back.
Truth In The Things They Carried By Tim O Brien
1774 Words | 8 PagesBy attaching stories to deaths, and names to the faces of soldiers who otherwise would be just another killed in action, the real experiences of what it was to be a soldier in Vietnam come to life in ways cold hard facts and reality cannot. O’Brien’s book is not about war. It’s about the people who lived through the terror of being in Vietnam. As O’Brien writes “It’s about love and memory. It's about sorrow”(81).
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
1493 Words | 6 PagesAs the 104th moves on from their real first test of battle, Stash is relieved he made it out of there alive. One thing for sure that this first battle taught him is always to be aware of what is around him. He told himself, just like in training, he can’t take his eye off anything from this point forward. He now knows this is real. There is no going back now.
Mildred Owens Personal Narrative
272 Words | 2 PagesThe streets of Washington, D.C. filled with joy and relief as the soldiers returned to their families and loved ones. Some soldiers were injured, broken, clueless, or not there. My father would be coming home on the train. So my mother, my little brother Jack, and myself stood in front of the train station waiting, watching, and listening for the first two trains, but when they did arrive father wasn’t there. Mother had told me not to worry for father could
Personal Narrative-The Damage On The Western Front
606 Words | 3 PagesEveryone had seen those headlines. The same phrases had been plastered on the front pages of every newspaper for four everlasting years. Reports from aged soldiers; brave, bold boys and men; reduced to ghosts. And they were the lucky ones. Those who had escaped from the chaos that claimed the lives of thousands of others.
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
392 Words | 2 PagesThrough thundering guns and cannon fire; you can hear the helpless cries of the abandoned, wounded soldiers or bold attackers, storming and laughing in the face of death. Some men prayed, while others pleaded. Some men held pictures or mementos; of longed sweethearts and family before carefully tucking them away inside of their jackets, for some of their loved ones, will never be seen again
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
171 Words | 1 Pagesthe allies brilliantly invade the French shore line, this victory will cause Germany to surrender in the near future. As the allies captured Germany a small platoon stumbled upon a small laboratory. The lights flickered as the soldiers moved. A lieutenant move towards a device that appeared to be active. As he observed it he noticed the machine still humming.
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
459 Words | 2 PagesThey trudged through the vast land, hopeful of assistance nearby. The sun harshly beat down on the troop without any second thoughts of sympathy. “Keep going! We’re almost there.” exclaimed Ernest Warner reassuringly, the leader of the troop.
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
264 Words | 2 PagesI was sitting in the middle of my room in the lotus pose, having accepted my death sentence. My eyes were shut, the blinds were shut, and the electronics were shut. The doors, however, were open. They marched in as I had expected - the sound of combat boots resonated first in my ears, and then came the sound of guns being dragged around, loaded with ammunition, and only then I heard the yelling. I opened my eyes to sight long overdue - military men in dark green camo outfits, crude faces chiseled by war, the badges of two crossed swords, guns, ready to fire.
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
964 Words | 4 PagesSo long as he had been able to hold a view of things in which time was just moments, then days, each one destroying itself in the next; so long, that is, as it was a process without sequence, he could face himself and hang on. Living was vertical. You stood up new in each moment of it, and if you were strong, and luck was with you, you got from one moment to the next. It was all moments and leaps. But now he had to take on again the notion of a self that was continuous, that belonged to the past and was to have a hfe again in the future.
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
950 Words | 4 PagesSigning up to become a soldier It was around the time in the U.S.A for soldiers to start signing up to become men and go into war. This time I was signing up I was young when WW1 was around at least that is over. But now it is the start of a new world war and it is going to be WW2. My friends said they would be here does not look like it.
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
353 Words | 2 PagesHow does this affect me and others? (Pacing) Manipulation is never easy on any side of the story. I know that to break the chains that hold me it will break the man that I am. I can’t be expected to tell these men to die. For what?!
Creative Writing: The Battle Of Washington
1406 Words | 6 PagesThe C-47 circled over New River Marine Corps Air Station in Jacksonville, North Carolina. It had been over a year since any aircraft had flown over the air station. Ten minutes later the aircraft rolled up to the terminal where Lieutenant General Patrick and his staff, to include Colonel Flat and the Seal Team Commander, Lieutenant Williams waited. Within minutes Brigadier General John Clayton and Colonel March popped out of the plane to greet the men, five later President Washington stepped out of the aircraft to the Marine Corps band playing hail-to-the-chief.
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
244 Words | 1 PagesSmell You know, the long night is lonely. Sometimes all we need to do is to suffer. At some point, things will get better.
How Does Tim O Brien Use Story Telling In The Things They Carried
778 Words | 4 PagesThese soldiers devote their lives to the war, and sadly they are easily forgotten. But for Tim O’Brien and various other authors, “We kept the dead alive with stories” (239). These stories are a way for dead friends and family members to seem alive again. The stories reveal their character and many of their best moments alive. O’Brien utilizes storytelling to cope with the death that surrounds him, and to keep their memory burning on
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