Reality In Rebecca West's The Return Of The Soldier

Realizing is to understand, while denying is to contradict. We as people understand that there is more to any relationship than the just the surface. The Great Gatsby, a mysterious but intense novel, is based off of the ideas of denying but realizing, leaving the story intriguing to readers. Not only does one of the most important characters in this novel, Daisy Buchanan, realize what is going on in her reality but she also chooses to deny it. In this case, her convenience is more important than the truth.

‘The Divine Wind’ written by Garry Disher, is a novel that explores the lives of many individuals as they face a time of hardship through war and conflict. Hart, the main protagonist of the book, develops several relationships along the way, the majority unfortunately ruined by his personal insecurities. Hart loses the friendship of his two close friends, Mitsy Sennosuke and Alice Penrose, causing him to feel alone and ‘friendless’ for some time. Consequently, he resorts to becoming friends with Jamie Killian, despite the fact that he didn’t get along well with him. Hart’s mother and father share a similar situation- a strained friendship due to individual insecurities.

In Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the narrator is suffering from postpartum depression. The narrator 's husband John, who also happens to be her physician, prescribes the rest cure to help lift his wife of her depressive state and ultimately heal her depression. However, the rest cure does not allow the narrator to experience any mental stimulation. Therefore, to manage her boredom the narrator begins obsessing over the pattern of the yellow wallpaper. After analyzing the pattern for awhile, the narrator witnesses a woman trapped behind bars.

Regardless of age, gender, and race, everyone encounters different problems in his or her daily life. Whether the problems are as simple as getting up in the morning or untangling the headphones, people need to find a solution to solve them. The only thing that matters is what solutions they will seek. In David Foster Wallace’s “Good People,” he narrates a story about two college students, Lane Dean, Jr. and Sheri Fisher, who face a dilemma of choosing between either abortion or keeping their baby. They are torn between these choices because they come from a religious family, in which abortion is unethical and immoral.

While storytelling can change and shape a reader’s opinions and perspective, it might also be the closest in helping O’Brien cope with the complexity of war experiences, where the concepts like moral and immorality are being distorted. “How to Tell a True War Story” and “Ambush” are stories that both explore on topics: truth, the real definition of a true war story, and the role of truth. O 'Brien starts off “How to Tell a True War Story” with “This is true.” Starting this story with such a bold sentence not only makes it seem more true, but to some extent, it acts as a comfort statement to the narrator’s own doubts, as if there were unspeakable uncertainties and lies of the narrator. The title of this story also comes into play, with a meta-fictional name “How to Tell a True War Story”, as if it were a guide, a manual, having a true war story tell the readers how to tell a true war story. However ironically, towards the middle of the story, us as

This is evident as Dickens manipulates time by stating “the quarter was so long” which illustrate the intensity of Scrooge’s anxieties and fears about the ghosts due to the limited amount of time to change his fate. In addition, Dicken’s use of apostrophe in “ Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful death” allows the reader into a deeper insight into Scrooge’s emotional state without using a direct statement from Scrooge, which evokes a sense of reassessment in the reader in regard to their own life. He had become so consumed with the daily grind of work and surviving he had missed out on the opportunity to appreciate what’s around him and other people which led him to be closed off in an austere state of alienation. A sense of self-discovery is identified as Scrooge states to “sponge away the writing on the stone” as he is desperate to change as he looks around at the people in his life and see them where they really

The departure was portrayed in two different types of ways. Bilbo’s departure was more straightforward because he was literally leaving his home and starting the adventure, while Malala’s was more of a metaphorical departure because her practice with speeches in the mirror made her confident; Her confidence caused her to go into the trials stage of the hero’s journey, which was doing public speaking and spreading her beliefs. In addition, the trials were different. Bilbo’s numerous trials had different consequences that were very fictional, and unimaginable, while Malala’s trials often repeated themselves and had similar consequences like being targeted by the Taliban. This makes sense, considering the fact that one novel is fiction, and the other is nonfiction.

Alienation in The Return of the Soldier In her novel, The Return of the Soldier, Rebecca West depicts the effects of World War 1 through the character, Chris Baldry, who undergoes a psychological transformation. His memory is rewind fifteen years back, which causes him to retreat from the life he was living. The dramatic changes affected his relationship with his wife Kitty Baldry. Throughout the novel, Chris is treated simply as the “soldier” after returning from war, which leads him to experience a sense of alienation that impacts his marriage, memory and social life. Chris’s marriage with Kitty is a cradle of isolation due to his psychological disturbance.

The novel states,” Montag moved back… checker mildred, tucked the covers about her carefully, and then lay down with the moonlight…” (Bradberry 15). This also shows just how much montag still cares for mildred even though she gives little effort back toward him. This relates back to the theme of the novel, the decay of human relationships. Montag and mildred’s relationship is decaying because of technology and poor decisions. To summarize, Urban’s song “you’ll think of me”, closely connected with the theme of the novel, Fahrenheit

The endings are different and give very different endings and feelings of the book to the reader. The published ending better fits the novel because Pip and Estella mend their relationship which is a realistic ending, it is more satisfying, and it shows how Pip has fulfilled the bildungsroman genre of the book because he no longer loves Estella. In the published ending of Great Expectations, Pip and Estella mend their relationship because Estella indirectly apologizes to Pip and asks for forgiveness. Pip and Estella run into each other where the Satis House used to be. Estella says to Pip, “But you said to me, ‘God bless you, God forgive you!’ And if you