Once an LSD consumer, Ken Kesey, defines the importance of freedom throughout his world renowned Post-Modern novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. One element of Postmodernism in the novel, is the effect of society against the individual. Society and government power systems become the machine and our postmodern anti-hero rages against that machine (Bendingfield). In the story, Chief, the narrator, in the book is a damaged ex-soldier who sees the machine enemy all around him. The reader takes it as metaphor, but Chief who is a paranoid schizophrenic, sees it as reality.
at the University of California, Berkley. He now works at the University of California, San Diego in the Ecology and The Behavior of Evolution Section as a semi-retired professor/geneticist. Christopher was fascinated by the stories his uncle told him about World War II which I think may have influenced him to write this book. The story that seems to have led his career is the one in which his uncle got sick in India. In 1943 his uncle got injured by a mortar-bomb splinter in his left tibia which caused a horrible leg infection.
According to Albert Kropp, “Two years of shells and bombs - a man won’t peel that off as easy as a sock” (87). When a man is in the war for two years, the war will become a part of him, because of the horrors and terrors he has faced in the field. Two years of the war isolates a man from civilian life, and eventually, the war will identify him, causing it to be very difficult to make the transition of war life back to civilian life. Paul reflects back to the innocence the war has taken from him as he states, “We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world, and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our heart.
The arguments that come out of this book as delievered by Jon Krakauer center around Pat’s death while serving in the Army. Arguments arose about the way the government portrayed Pat Tillman’s death to his family and to the rest of the world. Pat Tillman’s death originally wasn’t accurately disclosed as being caused by friendly fire, in which it was, but rather it was told to have been caused by the natural evils of combat and of our countries enemies. President Bush used Pat’s story as a way to promote his administration’s foreign policy. Thus leaving American’s to become conspirious about the truths of war and ethics in the Federal Government.
Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front very much achieves its goal to “try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.” Remarque goes to great lengths to show how the men in his novel came from ordinary backgrounds. These were men who were for the most part around 18-20 years old. The majority of Paul Bäumer’s group were his own classmates in school. Further, these men joined the German Army for patriotic and nationalist reasons. After spending some time in the trenches, they realized the true brutality of war, including the humiliation the soldiers must endure, such as using outdoor toilets in the open.
It begins when a solider who fought in Desert Storm meets with Major Marco and discusses with him the strange dreams he has. Melvin also shows Marco some images that he has sketched out based off of his nightmares. Major Marco is unable to help and suggest that he may need help with a doctor. The audience finds out that Shaw now has a career in politics because of his known war hero status. Shaw began to run for vice president with his mother behind him pushing him.
A Man For All Seasons : In All Quite on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, the question of who’s a hero and who isn’t is in World War I. Relationships between soldiers, officers, and the government led to the question being answered.A hero doesn’t expect to be rewarded for their efforts. Paul’s former teacher in high school filled his students minds’ with propaganda. Kantorek was a part told the boys lies of how war was. The boys got hooked onto this propaganda and registered for WWI.
Tim hates it when his brother does this, and wants him to help him out. Also Sam whines about the broken basket, which annoys Tim. Sam reveals to Tim that he really came home for the Brown Bess (Life’s gun) to go to war at Wethersfield. The Brown Bess was the type of gun that many of the people had in Connecticut. It was brown, and got it's name from Queen Elizabeth, whose nickname was Bess.
War is a difficult topic, especially when someone has to describe it. Vonnegut tries his best to capture the mass destruction the war caused to the city of Dresden and the citizens within. Vonnegut places a bird twice in the novel saying the same line. The bird seems to be asking a question “One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, Poo-tee-weet” (Vonnegut, 215)? The bird appears in two spots in the book: First, the bird sings outside Billy’s hospital window and second, as the last line in the book.
John Wade tried to make something of himself, but his past shooting of a fellow soldier and his “participation” in the My Lai Massacre, came back to ruin him in his run for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He also suffered from flashbacks to his war years and from what seems to be undiagnosed multiple personality disorder. His other persona was his nickname in Vietnam, Sorcerer. This book is a discussion of how soldiers relieve their experiences in war every day of their lives and how they can influence all aspects of their lives, from jobs to