War novel Essays

The novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles takes place during World War II in 1942. The World War II may not have directly affected the characters for the majority of the novel, but though out the novel, we see its effects on the characters' actions indirectly. The war also changes the characteristics and attitudes of certain characters of the novel, causing them to adapt and change of the thought of enlistment for the war. World War II also seems to affect the characters' interactions with others

Farewell to Arms The novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is primarily about war and love. A farewell to arms is about World War I and all the disastrous things that come along with the war. Furthermore the novel also describes tragic romance of the two protagonists, the American lieutenant Frederic Henry who serves in the Italian ambulance corps and the English nurse Catherine Barkley who works at an Italian hospital. Reading A farewell to arms, you discover that not only war and love are important

created by Erich Maria Remarque in his novel All Quiet on the Western Front. As a writer, Remarque unknowingly left his novel open to readers with completely different perspectives, and to various forms of criticism. This undoubtedly meant that every single reader had been affected by the novel in many different ways which unfortunately for Remarque may have been an effect that he never intended. I personally think that a writer couldn’t possibly publish a novel that affects every reader in one particular

Watchman is a graphic novel that encompasses many themes that fall in the realm of heroes and villains. While this is the case, the novel additionally incorporates many recurring symbols from beginning to end. Ultimately, these symbols add insight to the story being told. In the graphic novel, Watchmen, the recurring image of the Hiroshima lovers highlights the cold war and suggests the unexpected ending of Ozymandias’ scheme. Symbols that tend to recur in books and other mediums tend to hold some

inhuman? Are they even meant to finish the war they’re in? Or are they meant to avoid known responsibilites? In the novel, Catch-22, the characters are constantly questioning the idea of whether to keep fighting for their lives or to just ultimately lose hope. As they finish the number of missions needed to go back home, Colonel Cathcart, raises the number of missions, making it nearly impossible to leave war. As a result, Yossarian, a bombardier in World War II, is always looking out for ways

powerful novel that involves both the abuse of power and evil within. Looking back on the events of his son’s and his life, Robert Cormier not only shows the battle of power and evil, but also how the 1970s and 1980s impacted his life the most in The Chocolate War. Understanding a little about Robert Cormier will help understand how he came to be as a writer and how it influenced his novel. Cormier

Passos’ novel, Manhattan Transfer, represents the complex, speedy urban experience of life in New York. The plot is made up of overlapping narratives of several characters, similar to the transfer stations of the New York subway system. The novel is in a pessimistic viewpoint of a declining New York City and takes place during the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age. Even though the novel is not mainly about the Great War, the novel describes the perspective of the people before and after the war. In the

This novel is really well written. Markus Zusak created a really good theme that could be quite realistic (People suffering during a war). I loved how Zusak made Death himself the narrator of the novel, “I witness the ones that are left behind, crumpled among the jigsaw puzzles of realisation, despair and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs.” This quote is from Death’s point of view when he is telling us about the bodies he is picking up and taking to the next life. I liked

Differences in A Separate Peace Novel and Film Everyone at some point has felt envious of their bestfriend. In the novel, “A Separate Peace”, envy leads to many problems and changes in the film. Phineas is a main character that is bestfriends with Gene; he is athletic, a leader, and goes by Finny. Leper is a student that is viewed as weird. When he came back from the war he is portrayed differently in the film than in the book. Gene is the protagonist, intelligent, and is best friends with Finny

Brian Castner, a war veteran, a husband, and a father. He wrote the book The Long Walk on his psychologically damaging journey through blood, body parts, tears, bombs, death, and a foot in the box. His stories of the war help deploy the readers sorrow and pity. He utilizes many of his own rhetorical strategies to be able to help the reader better understand his emotions during the war. His portrayal of the war exemplifies the common struggle of a post war damaged man trying to escape his crazy. He

is a complex novel. Heller uses many themes, does not have the storyline in chronological order and often uses irony in his descriptions. Many of the themes can be compared to other literature. One of the themes that can be compared is fear in war. As well as the value of a human life during these times of war, but the insanity of war and Heller 's solution to insanity is the idea of "there is always a catch" in life is shown to a dramatic extent. Heller 's novel not only satirizes war, but all of

It was a day like any other day, but for the boy with fair hair, it would change his life forever. This is the beginning to the novel, by William Golding, that would surpass any other novel. And thus the book begins, marooning a group of English boys on an island, destroying their innocence, forever. This novel is like no other: Exploring the ideas of fear, war, and humanity’s evilness. So let’s begin. Fear. You hear it all the time. And we can experience the sudden emotion in our daily lives.

It was the novel that many of the people who formed the center of the 1960's in the United States read. It was a striking rebellion against what society was still pretending was the right way to live, but that immense numbers of people could see clearly was not right for them and probably never had been. The Vietnam War and the Cold War that followed made the novel’s influence bigger since the Unites States seemed to refuse to learn the lesson. Life was unpredictable and people lived faithful to

Across Five Aprils Across Five Aprils is a historical fiction novel written by Irene Hunt. This novel is based around the deadliest battle in United States history, the Civil War. This novel is based around the Creighton family, more importantly based around the nine year old son, Jethro Creighton. As the title states, this novel covers the five Aprils of the Civil war, April 1861 through April 1865. In this review, we will look towards the Creighton’s life and struggles over this vast time. The

In Slavenka Drakulić’s novel, S -a novel about Balkans she challenges the ideals of identity politics and the role of that the woman’s body played during the Bosnian war. This essay aims to discuss how Drakulic addresses these issues in her novel; this will be done by placing the novel in context of the Bosnian war followed by a close critical analysis of the given two texts. This analysis will facilitate the discussion of how the woman’s body is used as a political tool for genocide. The issue of

through the novels The Red Badge of Courage, The Catcher in the Rye, and They Both Die at the End which helps show the main character's growth and the development of themes throughout the novels. Henry is blinded by his impressionistic view of war, and believes it to be something glorious. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, is centered around Henry’s struggle to become a man as he fights in the Civil War. Throughout the beginning of the novel Henry does not see the materiality of war and instead

Suffering What maybe the central theme of the book thief and how does it affect the people and characters in the story? To start, the novel's title is the book thief by Markus Zusak. The book thief was put on New York's best seller list. The novel is about a girl named liesel who now lives with her foster parents and her life in the year 1939 along with what happens to the people around her and herself. The Theme of the story has a important part in the story due to it summarizing the feelings

Changez , the protagonist of the novel speaks throughout the narration of the story and the other person , who is an American does not speak. In The Fall, the same technique was used by Albert Camus, in which only Jean-Baptiste Clamence - a one-time Parisian lawyer and power-hungry narcissist speaks. Both the novels belong to the same genre of literature, ie WAR RESULTANT Novels. Clamence , the protagonist of The Fall is representative of post war lost generation of World War II and Changez is also labeled

what it doesn't want to hear even if it’s from the past. Books are being banned in result to the sensitivity and ignorance of our nation. Despite the immense amounts of history in the novel Gone with the Wind, some just can't get over certain literary elements in the book. The realism and language throughout the novel was not welcomed gently. These days, sensitive people find anything to be offensive even though it wasn't directed towards them. The sensitivity is at an all time high as literature that

O’Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried, plays a huge part in trying to support the author’s message. O’Brien uses symbols everywhere such as with the characters and to help develop the structure of the novel. The author decides to hide some of the symbols while some of the other symbols are in the open, making the symbols easy for the readers to pick up or understand clearly. The author uses symbolism in different forms, mainly intangible for an example. The main point of using symbols in a novel is to