War Novel Response #1

An American soldier fighting on and with the Italian front, a beautiful scenery superimposed by war, the lies that love holds. At the beginning of the novel, A Farewell To Arms, several events and key scenes take place. First, is the introduction to the main character, Frederic Henry, who is semiautobiographical in the story. The second character, the love aspect, is Catherine Barkley, an English woman working as a nurse on the Italian front. Both live different lives but are entwined by war. For Henry, love doesn’t exist, he pushes away his feelings of love, rather, to make way for his lust for Catherine. A savvy and smart man, Henry holds Catherine close to his heart as he ventures into the depths of war. 

   1. “…the fighting was in the next mountains beyond and was not a mile away. The town was very nice and our house was very fine. The river ran behind us and the town had been captured very handsomely but the mountains beyond it could not be taken and I was very glad the Austrians seemed to want to come back to the town some time, if the war should end, because they did not bombard it to destroy it but only a little in a military way” (Hemingway 5). ---Juxtaposition, plot, imagery, perspective.

    2. “The next afternoon I went to call on Miss Barkley again. She was not in the garden and I went to the side door of the villa where the ambulances drove up. Inside I saw the head nurse, who said Miss Barkley was on duty— ‘there’s a war on, you know.’ I said I knew” (Hemingway 19). ---Plot, character, perspective, understatement.

    3. “ ‘Tenente,’ Passini said. ‘We understand you let us talk. Listen. There is nothing as bad as war. We in the auto-ambulance cannot even realize at all how bad it is. When people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy. There are some people who never realize. There are people who are afraid of their officers. It is with them that war is made.’ ‘I know it is bad but we must finish it.’ ‘It doesn’t finish. There is no finish to a war.’ ” (Hemingway 43-44). ---Perspective, plot, character. 

This quote helps the reader understand the character of Frederic Henry and take a glimpse into his perspective on war. This could also be very significant for the plot because it shows Henry’s dedication toward the war and how it must be finished, or rather, it may foreshadow an event that may take place between Frederic Henry and war that may/ could change his perspective.  

    4. “There was a cough, a noise like a railway engine starting and then an explosion that shook the earth again… Through the other noise I heard a cough, then came the chuh-chuh-chuh-chuh—then there was a flash, as when a blast-furnace door is swung open, and a roar that started white and went red and on and on in a rushing wind. I tried to breathe but my breath would not come and I felt myself rush bodily out of myself and out and out and out and all the time bodily in the wind. I went out swiftly, all of myself, and I knew I was dead and that it had all been a mistake to think you just died. Then I floated, and instead of going on I felt myself slide back. I breathed and I was back” (Hemingway 47). ---Onomatopoeia, plot, imagery, perspective.

This quote helps demonstrate a change in the story or a shift in the plot by using the perspective of the main character. Hemingway also uses literary elements, onomatopoeia, and imagery, to enhance the scene and drive it into the minds of the reader. This change in plot foreshadows events in the coming chapters, which are significant toward another possible shift in the plot. 

Based on the evidence used, the message of war that is currently being made is that war is made from fear, there is nothing as bad as war. The message that I believe Frederic Henry is specifically conveying is that despite the troubling times of war, there is still humanity to consider, people may continue to live their lives as they must to bring an end to the destruction. 

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime walk is a novel about a group of soldiers going to a football game in Texas. This group of soliders is called Bravo. They are fighting in the War on Terror. There is Irony in this section because lots of people think that these men are super serious when in reality they just wanna sit around and drink booze. The book also foreshadows a lot of ideas of ptsd from the war and tells us that these men have gone through hell and have lost their best friends in war.

1. “His hands are large and knuckly, and dark clumps of jungle growth sprout from his ears.” (Fountain, 7) Imagery, metaphor and hyperbole

1. “The roof is a homely quilting mismatched tiles. There’s a slumpiness, a middle-aged sag to the thing that suggests soft paunches and mushy prostates, gravity slugged masses of beached whaleness.” (Fountain 10-11) Imagery and metaphor

1. “That same heaviness, the same torpor and melancholy, a kind of sickly-sweet emo funk that’s almost pleasurable, in the sense that it hints at something real.” (fountain 11) Paradox

This quote shows a paradox because it is two sentences that go against each other. The first sentence uses “torpor and melancholy” which means lazy and sad. Then the second sentence says that it is pleasurable. These two sentences contradict each other which supports the lit term, paradox.

1. “In the past two weeks he’s found himself unnerved by immensities—water towers, skyscrapers, suspension bridges and the like. Just driving by the Washington monument made him weak in the knees, the way that structure drew a high-pitched keening from all the soulless sky around it” (fountain 21). Foreshadowing

This quote shows foreshadowing because hinting at his past in turn will help us learn in the future. Billy in this scene is remembering the war memories and it causes him to shudder. He can’t even look at these monuments and immensities. This foreshadows that he possibly suffers from ptsd and will affect him through the book.

They’ve cut my arms off both of my arms.” (Trumbo pg 39) plot, imagery

“He had no arms and legs. He threw back his head and started to yell from fright. But he only started because he had no mouth to yell with”.(Trumbo pg 60) paradox, juxtaposition. 

This quote shows that the war has taken everything from him and that he is so broken that he can’t even scream about it.

“You couldn't lose this much of yourself and still keep on living. Yet if you knew you had lost them and were thinking about it why then you must be alive because dead men don’t think. Dead men aren’t curious and he was sick with curiosity so he must not be dead yet. (Trumbo pg 61) hyperbole, metaphor, juxtaposition, 

“It can’t be me not me. Not me. no no no ho please ho no please no no no please no please. Not me” ( Trumbo pg 64) repetition, hyperbole, perspective, character   

This quote shows that he is trying to reject what has happened to him because it’s so unimaginable to think that this has happened to you.

War takes everything from you and breaks you down until there is nothing left but you and your thoughts.

So far in the Novel, MASH by Richard Hooker there are a few main characters Hawkeye, Trapper, and O’Reilly. Hawkeye and O’reilly were the first two introduced, they worked together efficiently from the beginning but they needed a chest cutter. The chest cutter arrives and works with them well. They developed a time after every work shift where they would have a Martine and talk before they would do other things. During that time Hawkeye noticed that he knew the chest cutter from football, from then on he was known as trapper John or trapper for short. As they got to know each other they became more and more comfortable talking about things with one another, along with a couple of other guys in their tent. One of the major events is when Painless made it known that he will kill himself. “I thought you guys oughta know… I’m going to commit suicide.”(Hooker 47) The literary terms in this quote would be plot, character, pov, and understatement. This quote is an understatement because he brought it up so casually out of nowhere, he did not state why he was doing it or even say what he was going through to make him make this decision. Another major event is when they send Ho Jon to college. “We gotta get him into Androscoggin College.”(Hooker 71) This shows Character, plot, and pov. This shows character really well in all of these guys because it shows the development from where they started and what kind of people they are now. In order to get Ho Jon into this college, they needed money so they did something very interesting. The Trapper grew out his beard and sold pictures of him as the living Jesus Christ. “The enlisted men were fond of the Swampmen and were delighted to buy pictures of trappers.”(Hooker 74) This shows character and plot. Something that shows they have changed and gotten more comfortable with each other is at the beginning they barely talked to each other and now they are all good friends. “As they drove north, only the sound of the jeep broke the silence.”(Hooker 13).

Hawkeye Pierce and Duke Forrest are drafted as Army doctors in a M.A.S.H. unit. They are fast friends, both coming into the unit extremely nonchalant and uncaring of the military decorum. They didn't ask to join the army which gives them leeway in a lot of the insane things they do, they decided on their way to the unit that they would try their hardest and outclass the other doctors so they could get away with mostly anything. Their commanding officer Henry Blake tries to enforce the rules but the most he disciplines is a slap on the wrist. Hawkeye and Duke take advantage of this very often. After arriving both Hawkeye and Duke have an immediate problem with their roommate Major Hobson. He is extremely religious and hounds them constantly. They convince Henry to get him out of their tent as well as get them a more experienced chest doctor which they sorely need. John McIntire is the new doctor who also replaces Major Hobson as their new roommate. He's very unfriendly at first but once Hawkeye recognizes he's an old friend nicknamed Trapper John they all become pretty close friends. Amusement comes by getting absolutely wasted and perpetually gambling. They often terrorize the other doctors they don't like, though the recipient usually does have it coming. They do care for the people they get close to, even putting their houseboy through college after he nearly dies in the Vietnamese army, and In a convoluted way, they stop a friend of theirs from committing suicide. 

“‘Well,’ Hawkeye said, stopping the jeep, ‘there it is.’ ‘Damn,’ Duke said.” (Hooker, 15)---Understatement, plot, character 

The entire introduction of Hawleye and Duke is pretty understated in a way that wouldn't be expected from a book about being drafted. They spend most of their drive over getting drunk and being unbothered about how as they drive they become surrounded by tanks and other army vehicles.  far off there are the sounds of bombs going off. Both of them seem very unconcerned with the whole thing in general. Once they arrive at the hospital base they carry on doing as they please. The novel in itself is a huge understatement. The flippant nature of their personalities shows a bit about their character as well, this emphasizes the main idea of the novel, it's better to make the best of the situation than to give into the military way of thinking. 

“The fortunes of war had given him a job for which he was unprepared, and associated with him people he could not comprehend.”(Hooker, 17) --- Character, P.O.V.

“‘The forty-five will do it’… ‘there's no question about that, but it can be sloppy. How about the black capsule?’... ‘it's a never miss, easy, pleasant ride,’” (Hooker, 47)--- Understatement, plot 

“Captain Burns, she learned from frequent observation, was a brilliant technical surgeon. His behavior was military, and his dress and bearing were military. He was, she felt, an officer, a gentleman, and a surgeon.” (Hooker, 62)--- Paradox, character, P.O.V., Imagery 

In a previous quote, Hawkeye details his intense disdain for Frank Burns. He spends a sizable amount of time complaining about how Frank's pompous personality and poor surgical ability make everything more difficult for them. But as soon as Major Houlihan arrives, who seems to be a regular army type, and meets Frank she is deeply impressed by his military and surgical prowess. The two different perspectives of the same person conflict and show two opposite points of view making a paradox. The Major thinks Frank is an amazing surgeon and an even better person based mostly on how he is a stickler for military rules. After a single interaction with Hawkeye, she thinks he and his friends are evil incarnate based only on his lack of military standards. 

The message so far in the novel is that conforming to the military nature of war is more damaging than making the best and getting the most out of the unfortunate situation.

PG-5 In the book sand queen by Helen Benedict in the beginning of the story it seems like an introduction to Kate & Naema and what their relationships and lives are like. 

“It's the biggest frigging spider ive ever seen in my life. From one hairy leg to the other, the whole things as long as my forearm ``I saw imagery in that quote because they perfectly described what was going on and what it looked like with good detail. 

PG 6 “Dirty gray sand stretches as far as i can see” in that i see hyperbole because it exaggerates and stretches the truth. 

PG15 “Before anyone could stop me, i ran and unbolted it” i saw character and some pov because there seemed to be some conflict and troubles that she had to run away from. I also saw pov because it's her way of seeing it and she's the one telling us the way that she saw what happened to her . 

PG 19 “You have killed our sons' ' I see that as an understatement . It's an understatement because of the way the author wrote it. This seems as though nobody had a care in the world besides the parent(s) . It seems as though this death wasn't a big deal to anybody.

I feel like Kate only joined the army to impress her parents and yes to honor them. I am predicting that it won't end up  going to well for her because war is so traumatizing and awful.  

The Bravo squad is home for the big Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving football game where their Sargent Dime is trying to film a movie to bring in money and fame. Billy is at the stadium with his other combat members trying to make the best out of the cold weather while they are back home from overseas. They do this by doing things they shouldn’t necessarily be doing and by meeting people who are thanking them for their services and everything they went through. While all of this is happening in one singular day Billy is having flashbacks of a few days before when he was home visiting his family for a short while. He fantasizes about girls and remembers the terrible things that happened overseas that he had to witness along with the death of one of his best friends. 

“He'd say "I love you" to every man in the squad before rolling out, say it straight, with no joking or smart-ass lilt and no warbly Christian smarm in it either, just that brisk declaration like he was tightening the seat belts around everyone's soul.” (Bill Fountain ). Character, Perspective, Plot

This quote helps the reader understand what Shroom was like as a person and how he affected the lives of many of the people in combat with him. This quote shows perspective because it is showing what Billy thought about Shroom and how he affected him. I also added plot because it lets the reader know what Billy is feeling and how this sets the mood for everything else. I chose character as a literary term because the quote is explaining a small part about Shroom but it sets out the full idea of what type of person he was. 

“Even harder was describing his sense that Shroom’s death might have ruined him for anything else, because when he died? when I felt his soul pass through me? I loved him so much right then, I don’t think I can ever have that kind of love for anybody again. So what was the point of getting married, having kids, raising a family if you knew you couldn’t give them your very best love?” (Ben Fountain ). Character, P.O.V., Juxtaposition.

“He felt Shroom’s soul leave his body at the moment of his death, a blinding whoom! like a high-voltage line blowing out, leaving Billy with all circuits fried and a lingering haze like he’d been whacked by a heavyweight who knows how to hit. A kind of concussion, is what it was. Sometimes he thinks his ears are ringing still” (Ben Fountain 47). Simile, Onomatopoeia, P.O.V., Perspective, Imagery, 

“I don’t think anybody knows what we’re doing over there. I mean, it’s weird. It’s like the Iraqis really hate us, you know? Just right there in our own AO, we’re building a couple of schools, we’re trying to get their sewer system up and running, we bring in tankers of drinking water every day and do a meal program for the kids, and all they wanna do is kill us. Our mission is to help and enhance, right? And these people are living in shit, literal shit, their government did nothing for them all these years, but we’re the enemy, right? So what it ends up coming down to is survival, I guess. You just pull in, you aren't thinking about accomplishing anything, you just wanna get through the day with all your guys alive. So then you start to wonder why we’re even over there” (Ben Fountain 97-98). Perspective, P.O.V., Understatement, Plot

This quote helps me understand what the people in the war are thinking and what's happening that the people back home may not know about. I chose perspective because the quote is giving opinion of Billy by explaining how he feels about certain things and what he thinks other people think. I chose understatement as another literary term because the people back home don’t really understand or even know what is happening overseas and they think it isn’t a big deal and it’s not as bad as it seems but, in reality, it’s worse. Lastly, I chose the plot because this quote it is setting the scene for everything that is happening at war and how it is affecting the soldiers. 

The overall message that I have so far about war is it’s not what it seems like, even though people may have an idea about everything happening they may not fully understand what they are going through or they could be completely wrong and have no idea about what these people are going through overseas. 

So far the medics named trapper, hawkeye, and duke. They were in Korea when they saw a person named Ho-Jon that got hit by a missile shell hit his artery and needed surgery but they first did an x-ray to make sure it was in that spot before they did the surgery.

“Chief surgeons court broke into song: “hail to the chief  and kings and all the surgeons he needs a queen to satisfy his urgins”-character 

“It must be in the left pulmonary artery. Whadda we do? Close and get an x-ray and fight another day “ok '' Hawkeye said unhappily. The x-ray confirmed trappers guess.``(hooker 69)-imagery helped me understand war because it shows that anything can happen during it and the medics do a lot more than people think they do out in the field. It helped me understand the story because it makes me think about what will happen next.

“Now I am in Korea as a surgeon in a mobile army hospital. To make a long story short, I know a Korean kid that I want to get into Androscoggin. You took a chance on me. If you could do  that, there would be twice as much reason to take a chance on my boy.” (hooker 71-72) -perspective/point of view helps me the story because they really care about who they take care of especially ho-jon who they are trying to get into Androscoggin collage for education but it makes you understand the perspective of getting the letter and your reading the letter as if you are the college. 

“When the dukes name was mentioned, it was generally agreed that he was the most amiable, and therefore likable.”(hooker 75)-character 

 Slaughterhouse V

Slaughterhouse V the book is in perspective to the person who wrote the book, Kurt Vonnegut and it is based on what he has been through. In the first part part of the book Yon Yuson contacts an old war buddy O’Hare and tells him he is writting a book about the dresden bombing, germany, and he would like O’Hare’s help. O’Hare doesn't remember much about the war, Yon is going to stop by to visit. The boys revisit Dresden, destroyed by the British and American planes on the last days of the war. Yon and O’Hare travel to Dresden together to discover old memories for the book. 

“I let him know I like him/He doesn't mind the smell of mustard gas and roses” (Kurt 7). --Personification, Imagery, Perspective. This is showing that he is giving sandy (his dog) features that humans would have like talking. Yon Breath smelling like mustard gas and roses is easy to imagine and quite unpleasant, but Sandy doesn't mind it. It's also showing that Yon doesn't fall asleep quickly so instead he does things until he is ready to sleep. 

“But not many words abouts Dresden came from my mind then/I think about how unless the Dresden part of my memory has been, and yet how tempting Dresden has been to write about” (Kurt 2). --Repetition

“When we saw a river we had to stop/they have never seen water in that lung and narrow, unsalted from before/there were carp and we saw them. They were as big as atomic submarines” (Kurt 11-12). --Simile, Imagery, Perspective. Yon’s daughter, nanny and her best friend have never been off cape cod so when they were traveling Yon decided to stop by a river so they could stand by it and take it all in. They saw big crap, waterfalls, and streams. Eventually it was time to leave. 

“Now they were dying in the snow, feeling nothing, turning the snow to the color of raspberry sherbet” (Kurt 54). --Imagery, Metaphor. 

My message about war so far is that it goes on for a very long time, and war is never going to end because people don't know how to just live life. War takes you by surprise and you miss the way you used to be before war. 

Summary- 

The first third of Johnny got his gun starts off by talking about Joe's memories and how his dad died. The author tells us thet he is deaf by stating that he is hearing continuous ringing. As the book goes on, Joe has to leave for war and his girlfriend Kareen does not want him to by stalling as long as possible. But Joe leaves and while in the war he gets hit by a mortar shell, and ends up having both of his arms taken off completely because the doctors were too lazy to fix it. He also ends up going blind and deaf because of his injuries, all he can do is remember his past and live off all his memories. 

The book continues and he remembers working on train tracks with his old friend, always passing out because of the heat. They then decided to leave and join the work gang because their girlfriends cheated on them. He ends up losing his friend as well, and he remembers this because the bodily pain he feels now reminds him of then. Joe imagines himself in a river with his Kareen, he starts to drown and when he tries to swim back up but realizes that he doesn't have legs. He tries to scream but also realizes that he has no mouth, no nose, and no eyes. His face is basically a hole. 

Quotes:

1. “It sounded like it was ringing in a room a million miles wide.” (Page 3) simile and hyperbole 

This quote helps show that all Joe could hear was this constant ringing, and it sounded like it was bouncing off the walls of a million-mile-wide room. 

1. “He lay and thought oh Joe Joe this is no place for you. This was no war for you.” (Page 24) repetition and the plot 
2. “Both of my arms are gone Kareen both of them” (Page 38) POV and character 
3. “It was hot. So hot he seemed to be burning up inside and out.” (Page 40) Imagery and metaphor

This quote helps show that the place Joe is remembering was very very hot that he felt he was burning inside and out. 

Statement- a message about war that can be taken out of this part of the novel is that anything can happen, good or bad and in this case it is bad.

The novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, begins with Joe Bonham (the main character) hearing this phone constantly ring while he was at work. Well, when Joe finally answers the phone he learns that his father died. His mother was of course stricken with grief but, was staying strong for her kids. Joe wasn’t as sad because he knew it was a long time coming because his father had been sick for a very long time, so he was ready for it. Then he gives a little look into his normal life. After that, we learn about him and his girlfriend Kareen and how now he is living at this place with her and a guy named Mike. Then the next day he left for the draft. Then the story comes back around to when he was dating this girl named Dina and how she cheated on him and so he went to the desert to work with some Mexicans with a friend. They only stayed there for a day before his friend decided that he wanted to go home. At some point it brings us into his head after he was in the military and was in the hospital when they had to cut his arms off, he went into detail about how it felt when they did that and what he was thinking when they did that. When he is finally back home after being back from working in the desert, he was back working where he was before he had left the bakery where they would deliver baked goods on foot, during the night to everyone who wanted them. Well, Friday nights they needed help to deliver not only the baked goods for Fridays but also for the weekend. One day a guy named Jose came in and he was only working there so that he could make money so he could work as a studio manager in Hollywood. When he finally got the job he could figure out a way with his morals to quit. So, Joe and the other guys worked out a plan to get Jose fired, at first the plan didn’t work but the second time it did work, he got fired and went to work his dream job, leaving Joe. That’s it up until now.

1. “Why did you cut my arm off answer me why did you cut my arm off?” (Trumbo 27)---Repetition, Plot, Perspective
2. “You’ve got the arm isn’t that enough where’s my Kareen’s ring our ring please where is it? The hand it was in is dead and it wasn’t meant to be on rotten flesh.” (Trumbo 29)---Repetition, imagery, perspective, character

This quote helped me understand what type of person Joe is. He is very strong in his beliefs and also very tender at heart, especially when it comes to his love and things that actually mean something to him. That is also how this helps show perspective, by showing us what Joe is thinking and showing us how he feels about it.

1. “He could hear explosions and howls and whines and words that didn’t mean anything… The pain was so bad that all he could think of was please please please I’d rather die. ❡Then things quieted down all of a sudden.” (Trumbo 58-59)---Repetition, imagery, plot, perspective, hyperbole, understatement

This quote helps you understand how Joe lost his hearing, while he was at war. It shows imagery because of the descriptions of what is going on and what it looks and sounds like from Joe's eyes.

1. “His hands were bloody and his legs were full of thistles and his eyes were full of tears and he was sick at heart.” (Trumbo 54)---imagery, perspective, metaphor

War taxes you more than just in a physical sense but, also mentally, even if that mental tax is not apparent at first.

An old man starts off the book by describing the difficulty of pulling memories of the war out of the depths of his thoughts.  He would like to write a book but is struggling to come  up with the story. The story starts to become clear when the man starts having flashbacks that start with his education at University of Chicago, along with his research on the children’s Crusade and the history of Dresden Germany. He then writes about a fictional character named Billy Pilgrim from a fake city in New York called Ilium who believes that he was abducted and brought to an alien zoo on a planet called Tralfamadore and that he has experienced time travel. Billy is a chaplain’s assistant in WWII who hates war and refuses to fight. He was in the Battle of the Bulge and met another soldier named Roland Weary who is what I would call a “Tough Guy”. Both of them were captured in 1944 by the Germans. 

“There was no longer any food for the prisoners to eat, and no longer any fuel to keep them warm. And yet, here came more prisoners. Billy Pilgrim’s train, the longest train of all, did not move for two days.”(Vonnegut 69) Imagery, POV, Plot. This train scene described the poor conditions the POWs had to endure under the Germans. No food, no heat, it helped me picture the scene that Billy is in and understand the situation from his perspective

“Billy beamed lovingly at a bright lavender farmhouse that had been spattered with machine-gun bullets.”(Vonnegut 65) Paradox, imagery, POV

“Weary’s eyes were tearful also. Weary was crying because of horrible pains in his feet. The hinged clogs were transforming his feet into blood pudding.” Imagery, Character, perspective. Weary was portrayed as a tough guy, at least to me anyway. This quote shines light on the fact that he is human. Emotions get the best of us and it adds to the background of Weary’s character. It also gave me a certain perspective and a picture of what he was suffering through physically with the wooden clogs.

“They were festooned with machine gun belts, smoked cigars and guzzled booze. They took wolfish bites from sausages, patted their horny palms with potato-masher grenades.”(Vonnegut 64)

So far I think the book is giving an anti-war message, from the living conditions, the emotions, and the traumatic stress, of being a POW. Slaughterhouse-Five, while it might be hard to comprehend. It’s very good at describing what is going through Billy Pilgrim’s mind and the setting that he is in.

In the novel Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter, a mother whose son is in the Navy goes missing. The mother whose husband was also in the government and was never really there for his son or wife. He died when Jason was still a little boy and the one thing that Jason had of his fathers were war poems. His mother begged him not to enlist in the navy but ultimately it was his decision and he went. Jason would send his mother letters and most of them asked about her and family and never really talked about what he was doing. Occasionally he would write about it and his accomplishments but not often. 

“Sing too softly,and you gain the privilege of running once more into the water,and it’s like ice.Then you can drop for a hundred more push-ups,in the process of which sand gets in your nose,your mouth,your eyes. The illusion that sand might lodge in your lungs and slow you on-runs or choke you- is powerful.”(Carpenter 47) --- Simile, Imagery, Perspective 

This quote helped me better understand what Jason feels like as he is in training and what they go through everyday while there. Imagery that is used in this I can make out a picture or scene in my head about what it looks like. How it feels being there and having the sand and coldness and I can feel it in a certain way on how he feels while doing this. 

“Apparently it was one of the last things anyone received from him. After April,David had stopped calling. After May,he stopped writing. In December,he was dead.”(Carpenter 26) --- Understatement, Character, plot

“If he survives. That was the subtext of her fears. And very soon she would learn that every choice and every moment and everything in the military,and in the lives of family members who waited back home for their fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters and sons and daughters and lovers, was infused with the same fear. The threat of imminent,physical danger…”(Carpenter 44) --- Repetition, understatement, Character 

This quote helps me better understand how his mother feels on him leaving and realizing what he will be doing. That is her baby still and she realizes that he will be in danger no doubt about it,and that scares her. 

“She decides that the girl has had a life far more interesting than her own: she has traveled,she has seen the world,she has met with heads of state and warlords, and she has her own show on in prime time, viewed by millions… Sara wanders,briefly,what that woman would think about a woman like her,but she already knows the answer.”(Carpenter 61-62) --- Perspective, Character, repetition 

The overall message that I have gathered from this section of the novel is that being scared is okay, You don’t have to be afraid to show your scared because like in this case she hasn’t seen her son, her little baby who she raised.

Radar O’Reilly is straight out of high school and joins the United States Army to join the Signal Corps. He has the ability to receive and monitor conversation far beyond the human ear's capabilities. In November 1951, Radar O’Reilly is a Corporal in the US Army Medical Corps. While sitting playing poker while listening to a phone call he hears Luetenint Colonel Henry Blake demanding that the general send him two best surgeons he has. Ten days later they arrive. They engage in pranks throughout the chapters and focus on introducing new characters, later on, they form “The Swamp” and are referred to as Swampman. 

1. “Ho-Jon thought Hawkeye Pierce, Duke Forrest, and Trapper John Mclntyre were the three greatest people in the world.” (Hooker 47)---Plot, character, perspective
2. "What are we gonna do?" Duke said. "We are going to ditch the 'Major," Hawkeye said, "But let's be quiet about it. No use kicking up too much of a fuss." (Hooker 14)---Plot, character

This quote helps build the character and perspective the Swampman has for the natives. They treat Ho-Jon like one of them and even educate him even though they are in a war against his people. Is shows that they care for the locals unlike most of the military.

1. "Gentlemen," yelled Hawkeye, "this here is Trapper John, the pride of Winchester, Dartmouth College, and Tent Number Six, and if any of you uneducated bastards don't like it you'll have to answer to Duke Forrest and Hawkeye Pierce." (Hooker 23)---Plot, character, perspective
2. “The most minor injury was a kid with a shell-fragment wound in his right thigh. It didn't look like much. Frank decided to get him out of the way so they could get on with the others. As usual, he didn't think.” (Hooker 42)---Perspective, character

This quote shows that major injuries in the states are treated as the most minor injuries in Korea. It shows the difference in perspective between the more formal hospitals in the US to the tents out in Korea. It also shows the character of frank and how he would move him out of the way and not think about it like it was natural. 

The Bravo team was headed home after their battle went viral on TV so they went on a victory tour. At the end of the tour they go to Cowboys stadium so they can have fun before they have to go back into battle. When they first get to the stadium there is talk that they might get a movie made about their amazing battle victory. Billy, the main character, joined the army because he was facing felony charges but the DA agreed to let him go into the military instead of going to jail. The Bravo team gets in a fight over if a jacket is real leather in the pro shop of the stadium. Right before the game starts the team gets shown on the jumbo-tron to show their appreciation for them; that infant starts a lot of people in the stadium to go up to them to also show their appreciation. One of the members of the team, Shroom died in the battle and Billy was right there when it happened. Before entering battle they have rituals they follow; including prayers, never let your left foot lead when crossing a threshold and make sure to apply body armor from bottom up. The story has a flashback to when Billy went back home during the victory tour and all of his family are so happy that he's home. His sister is a big part in his life; she was the main part why he got felony charges against him. When Billy was about to leave to go onto the victory tour everyone was so sad that he had to go; some of them wanted him to not go back into war when the tour was over. 

1. “‘Everything was blowing up and they were shooting our guys and I just went for it, I wasn’t thinking at all’”(Fountain 3) Plot, P.O.V, Character
2. “...Shroom advised him to place his feet one in front of the other instead of side by side, that way of an IED blew low through the Humvee Billy might lose only one foot instead of two”(Fountain 27) Plot, P.O.V, understatement, Imagery

This quote helped me that war can cause harm to your body. Losing limbs because of explosions in war is horrible, that's why understatement is used showing only losing one foot is not as bad as losing both feet. 

1. “We appreciate, they say, their voices throbbing like a lover’s”(Fountain 37). P.O.V, Simile
2. “She was a teary, phlegmy sponge ball of hiccups and sobs.”Don’t do anything crazy. Just get your butt home””(Fountain 106). Plot, P.O.V, Character, metaphor

This quote made me understand that your loved ones really do miss you when they are deployed and when you come home for a short amount of time they just want you to stay forever. Metaphor was used in a great way here showing Billy’s relatives will greatly miss him when he goes back into battle and they don’t want anything bad happen to him.

War is very mentally exhausting to everyone including the soldiers' relatives.

                                                                         Slaughterhouse-five
Slaughterhouse-five, it’s not good proof that you can’t spell slaughter without laughter. Chapter 1, the book starts off with the author going about life after war while looking back on it with the people he knew. Throughout this he decides to write a book about war, this book in fact, but he doesn’t know what to write or how to write it so he ends up putting it off. This chapter ends when he reads some books other people wrote and decides to stop looking back and move on with his life putting this guaranteed failure of a book behind him (his words not mine). Chapter 2, Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. True to the author's words at the end of chapter 1, the true story of the book starts with that line introducing the laughter of slaughter. The story after introducing Billy goes on to his life from when he was a boy all the way to when he was an old man, similarly but intrinsically different to how things went earlier with the author. The reason being is that Billy sold a story of his life in which he was unstuck in time and helped to understand by an extraterrestrial species called the Tralfamadorians. Regardless of the Tralfamadorians though the first time he came unstuck was accidental on his own stranding him in WW2. The rest of the chapter is him switching between his life after the war and progressing forward in the war till he and a fellow soldier, Weary are captured by the germans. Chapter 3, captured by germans in the past and not grasping the badness of the situation he’s in with being used for propaganda, and being stuck in a train car full of other pows while moving shit out of the car while they wait for transport. This switches with his present occasionally where life is fine, but yet he feels uncomfortable and has troubles before ending the chapter off with the tralfamadorians abducting him.
             Throughout these three chapters I came across many bits that stood out to me of which these are but a few. “His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes”(Vonnegut, 2). This is repetition, or rather the start of repetition. You see the statement, so it goes, is used a total of 106 times throughout the novel after a matter of a death happens. And as the repetition is strewn about the novel it’s also allusion as it's linking to an early piece of the story. Second there’s, “There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.”(Vonnegut, 19). Truthfully though when it comes to literary devices for this I can only think of paradox(and repetition), but even that feels like a stretch(I’ll get back to this later on). Quote no.3 is, “Billy has gone to sleep a senile widower and awakened on his wedding day. He has walked through a door in 1955 and come out another one in 1941. He has gone back through that door to find himself in 1963. He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between”(Vonnegut, 23). Character, plot, foreshadowing. Lastly numero quatro, “Billy went to New York City, and got on an all-night radio program devoted to talk. He told about having come unstuck in time. He said, too, that he had been kidnapped by a flying saucer in 1967. The saucer was from the planet Tralfamadore, he said. He was taken to Tralfamadore, where he was displayed naked in a zoo, he said. He was mated there with a former Earthling movie star named Montana Wildhack.”(Vonnegut, 25).
Jumping back to early with, “His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes”(Vonnegut, 2), and, “There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.”(Vonnegut, 19), to better understand the story with the first quote it’s showcasing the therefore mentioned repetition and allusion, but it also reminds me of trope and elegy. Trope is basically repetition over the novel, allusion is looking back at past repetitions and elegy is a poem mourning the dead. And while, so it goes(used a total of 106 times throughout the novel), isn't a poem about mourning, it is about death. Well what I’m trying to get to is that there's a plethora of death to do with war that simply comes and goes because that’s how it is. Circling around to the other quote which contains the literary device of paradox that I said I would explain. So it’s saying, “everything is always quiet, except for the birds”, however what I’m seeing as a paradox is “supposed to be dead, to never say anything… Everything is supposed to be quiet”. These here are part of a different sentence than the , “it always is”, statement so it shouldn’t apply to the earlier two sentences these bits were from. Regardless if this bit wasn’t about the after effects of war thus causing me to pay attention to it, I wouldn’t have noticed the paradox or repetition, “is supposed”.
             To finish this all of the message of the first third of the novel is, war bringing about death is normal, it comes and goes. As such while it’s somber things are normal and life flows on smoothly
Slaughterhouse-Five - Anti Logicalism

Mash 

In the end of the first third of the book Mash a young Korean kid named Ho Jon had a metal fragment in his chest when Hawkeye looked at the x-ray. While this fragment was in his chest Ho Jon opened his eyes and smiled because he saw his friends. When in surgery Hawkeye and duke removed Ho Jons fifth rib then trapper was able to easily locate the missile wedged in his left pulmonary artery. 

¨Ho Jon opened his eyes. He saw his friends and smiled. You'll be okay boy said the corpsman.¨ This is understatement because he has a metal fragment in his right pulmonary artery and the fact that he's smiling and isn't in pain and saying he'll be okay is not a guarantee. 

¨He's lost some blood. I'm afraid it's hit more than the lung. It's in deep.¨ This is imagery because you can imagine the fragment and see it in his chest. This helps me understand that maybe he might not be okay and could die.

¨after opening the pericardium which surrounds the heart he than dissected his way around the origin of the artery and placed an ablicical tapes as temporary ties above and below the missile.¨ This is also imagery because you can see him tying the tapes above and below the missile while it's being in his chest. This helps me understand because it shows where the missile is in his body and the equipment and technique that he uses to get it out. 

¨Despite the possibility of your having matured slightly in the last nine years¨ I think this shows character because nine years ago it shows he wasn't as mature as he was today.

This book shows a message about war can change your outlook on the world and or just people in general  

We start the story with Conrad on a plane on his way back from Iraq. Well on the plane back home we here about some of the things he saw well in the military we also see a bit of how the war effected him. After they land we get to learn a bit about Conrad’s mom and dad we learn that Conrad’s mom didn't really know much about the war growing up. After we learn a bit about his mom we learn how Conrad told his parents he was joining the marines when he tells his parents we learn that his dad was against war. We also learn that his mom tried to convince him not to go, After learning about all that we go back to present time in the present time we see his first interaction with his parents. We also get to see him be alone for the first time, when he is alone we get to hear his internal thoughts about his girlfriend who might not even be his girlfriend anymore. After he is alone for the first time we get to see his go out to dinner with his parents, during that time we get to see how the war has effected the way he deals with every day life. After his first day back we get to see him come back to his parent's house where we hear a little bit about the war. The next day is where we see his brother and sisters, his brother Ollie tells him about how he is thinking about joining the military but Conrad doesn't won't him to. We also hear about how Conrad and his girlfriend meet and how Conrad missions effected their relationship. We end the first third of the book with Conrad going to see his girlfriend in New York. 

“Even if he saw them, he’d see them in a different context, part of a different year.” (Robinson 36)-plot, character, POV 

This helps show that war has changed Conrad a lot, and he knows it. Conrad knows life is going to be different now that the war is done, it's going to be harder for him. This quote helps you understand that Conrad might be facing problems later in the book. This also helps to show what Conrad thinks life is going to be like when he gets back to normal life. With different POV we wouldn’t know what Conrad was thinking about his life. 

“A pulse started in Conrad's head.” (Robinson 41)—character, POV

This helps show what Conrad is feeling. With Conrad's POV we get to see what he has going on in his head, if we were to have been in a different POV we would not have known what was going on in his head. Another thing that this shows is now that's Conrad out of war he can't just sit there in a restaurant and have a normal conversation, he continues to worry about things. 

“ ‘what does Claire say about it?’… ‘she’s fine with it.’ he nodded this was not entirely true……but anyway they hadn’t broken up over it.” — plot, understatement 

“ He was waiting for something to click into place. In the military you had orders, and a task. Now what he had to do was keep moving.”- character. 

The overall message in this part of the story is war effects the future 

At the beginning of my novel “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,” I know that Billy is a 19-year-old specialist for the Bravos. The Bravos were in a battle and are now back in the U.S celebrating their victory that was captured by Fox news. One Bravo member was killed at war in battle and the film was captured by Fox news. To celebrate, the Bravos are invited to a Dallas Cowboys game on Thanksgiving day. Although, Billy didn’t really have a choice to join the army. He could’ve either gone to jail for destroying his sister's ex-fiance's car or just gone to the army. He obviously chooses the army. Billy has a headache still from the night before and his buddy Josh is taking forever to get him Advil. Also during their trip to the U.S, their friend Shroom who was the one who died in battle had his funeral and it was ruined by protests. Billy and the boys had gone out drunk to various clubs because they had felt bad for a horrible funeral for Shroom. Before the game starts The Bravo boys are making a Hollywood deal for a movie about them. When the game began the Bravo Boys also got recognized on the Jumbotron. Billy zones out as everyone is giving their best wishes to him. Billy sees war as terrible and doesn’t understand why others don’t see it that way. Bill can’t stop thinking about Shroom and his death. The Bravos are treated to a very nice and large lunch. Then Billy has a flashback to when Dime was with him and Bill had a breakdown. They cried together in a supply pantry and then Dime kissed Billy. Billy gets two nights and a day to go home to Stovall, Texas, and see family. His mother cooks a nice meal and he plays with his new nephew, but it’s hard because the thought of war keeps popping up in his head. His whole family doesn’t want him to go back except for his dad because they hate each other. 

“Billy did not seek the heroic deed, no. The deed came for him, and what he dreads like a cancer in his brain is that the deed will seek him out again.” (Fountain 40). Simile

This quote helps show that Billy did not want to be put into that battle situation and that it attacked him. Using something more well-known and something that people can relate to like cancer helps the reader understand how Billy feels about the battle. Cancer attacks at any time unexpectedly and everyone hates it and that is how Billy feels about the battle and war. 

“Billy hopes Josh brings some Advil soon” … “Advil,” Billy says, “were you able to find me any?”/ “Oh shit,” Josh exclaims in a hot whisper, then “Sorry” in his normal voice, “sorry sorry sorry, I’ll definitely get that for you.” (Fountain 20, 41). Repetition. 

“After solid weeks of public events Billy continues to be amazed at the public response, the raw wavering voices and frenzied speech patterns, the gibberish spilled from the mouths of seemingly well-adjusted citizens.” (Fountain 37). Point of vie

Billy doesn’t understand how people misunderstand war. He thinks everyone should see war as disgusting and terible. Although the citizens' perspective on war is heroic and cool to serve your country in war. Billy’s perspective on war is dark, haunting, and terrible.

“After breakfast Billy took his little nephew out to play. It was a mellow fall morning, the blue sky-dome stretched high and tight with that sweet winesap smell in the air, the honeyed, vaguely melancholy scent of vegetable ferment and illegal leaf burns.” (Fountain 82). Imagery. 

Going to war leaves a soldier with a lifetime's worth of scars, both physical and mental. Along with repeating trauma living in their head for the rest of their life.