War... a gray, dark, morbid word, which brings chaotic conflict and death to many. From within its twisted grasp of chaos heroes are born. Through their choices heroes affect the fate of many lives. This story opens in 1757, in the middle of French-Indian War. The French are at war with British ove...

Timothy Findley pieced The Wars together much like a puzzle. When piecing together a puzzle it is crucial to first find the corner pieces. As when trying to understand the novel it is necessary to realize what the most important aspects are. Each separate corner holds together and is linked to an...

Literature of War Part B "The Drum" The beating of "The Drum" depicts the negative, painful, and devastating blow that warfare can bring to a society. In The Drum the author (John Scott of Amwell) tells how men from city and country come to enlist in the army when the faint ...

The writers of Hamlet and The Wars, William Shakespeare and Timothy Findley respectively, transform their main characters from the expected war hero or powerful prince into that of an antihero. William Shakespeare presents Hamlet as a prince bent on revenge but unwilling to do it. Timothy Findley, o...

World War II had a significant impact on most of the countries. Although Canada was not attacked, the war had an enormous impact on Canada. Because the men were sent out of the country to fight the war, the condition of women who were left alone at home, were noticeable. The war affected...

The War Between UsIt must have been very traumatic for the Japanese-Canadian families to be faced with internment and then deportation. From the very beginning they must have been faced with utter confusion and must have been left with some very disturbing unanswerable questions. Such as wondering...

Is Heidi Bub a reflection of America? The traditional immigrant success story usually portrays an immigrant family who comes to America and is determined to enjoy the American dream of success through hard work. Eventually, the family, or the second generation of immigrant children, becomes a par...

Across Five Aprils, written by Irene Hunt, is a novel about a family of 7 that lived on a small farm in Illinois. That explains about Irene Hunt's grandfather Jethro that lived threw the Civil War. The story takes place between the North and the South in Illinois of April 1861. This was a ma...

World War I undoubtedly changed the political boundaries and economic system of Europe (as seen in Chapter 3 of Findley's Twentieth Century World textbook). However, in the midst of all the political and economic changes, the human toll is sometimes overlooked. With the declaration of World War I,...

Just imagine being out in dense forests, hearing the bombs and shots being fired in the not too far off distance. Being far away from home and knowing that anyone could die at any moment if they are not careful is a very frightening thought. Anything that can take the soldier's mind off of the war ...

While fighting in a war many unexpected things can happen. In "Saving Private Ryan" Tom Hanks and his squad were givin an unexpected task to retrieve a certain private in the mass amounts of people fighting in the war. The men thought it was a assignment they should not have to do, because they wer...

Motherhood in American society transformed significantly since the Second World War as a result of social economics, emerging feminism, and changing social mores. Following the wartime influx of women into the workplace, motherhood in the fifties reverted to its traditional roles. As time and th...

As I read the first chapter of the Bhagavad Gita I was introduced to the character Prince Arjuna, who faces a moral dilemma of duty. The other character Sri Krishna, who is Prince Arjuna's charioteer and advisor, attempts to help Arjuna solve this moral dilemma. Krishna convinces Arjuna to...

In the Story " A Soldiers Home" Krebs comes back after being inWorld War 1. He comes home only to find that something's in hishome town have changed. The girls in his town have grown up and hisparents want him to move on get married and get a job. The war haseffected Krebs in a way that he can not g...

The Movie, The Patriot, starts out with most of the colonists angered. This part of the movie caught my attention at the very beginning and kept it throughout the entire movie. I enjoyed especially the action and war scenes in the movie, but the storyline was very good as well. To understand this ...

"Obasan" is an autobiographical novel, a story about the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II. The book is narrated by Naomi Nakane, a second generation Japanese Canadian who was six years old at the time of the internment. The silence, the lost of family, and the racism all...

What makes us?Webster's defines identity as, "sameness of essential or generic character in different instances; or oneness." But what makes us who we are?As we walked into Hubbard Park, as we did every Sunday, my father would ask, "Do you think they know we're coming?" Of course he was asking abou...

An individual's reaction to outside pressure can affect relationships within a family. Based on "My Oedipus Complex," tension between a mother and child was developed after the return of the father from war. In this case, the outside pressure is the war and the relationship is the bon...

There is a popular saying: "Home is where the heart is." This is indeed true in Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home." Because of the atrocities of war, the protagonist, Harold Krebs' heart is no longer in his homeland. Hemingway uses setting to convey this irrecoverable loss in Krebs. In particular, ...

Government or FamilyAfter reading a recent article on were loyalties lie with the commonfoot soldier in the civil war. I put my self in there place and asked myself. Would Ibe loyal to my country or my family? After thinking of this for sometime I reached aconclusion. I would think that my loya...

The war. It began and ended in a few seconds. The war was the death for thousands all over the world, and while Montag describes the last few seconds of Mildred's life, he may as well have been describing the death of almost all of the inhabitants of their city. Mildred and Montag had an interesting...

Ernest J. Gaines; The Sky is Gray Characterization of OctaviaIn Ernest J. Gaines, "The Sky is Gray," is a story of a woman during World War II, who is faced with the challenges of raising and providing for her family financially in the absent of her husband because of the war. Her realisti...

The soldiers finally get to leave the site of death, agony, despair, fear and go back to civilization to try to forget for the moment of the horrors of war. But for Paul it's a different story, he has to tell a hopeful mother that her son shall not return. As Paul lies to Kemmerick's mother and tel...

It is amazing that so many people are deeply affected by the media and the movies. As part of our study on the impact of film on history, I have decided to examine the role of television in the 1950's. Many sitcoms were focused around middle class, white families that concentrated many of their...

The respect that a father receives as head of the family is obvious in the Iliad. Not only is the father the primary concern in the Iliad, but also the paternal expectations are the basis for the heroic code. However, women in the Iliad are a contradiction to the fathers in the beliefs that the he...