Bruce Dawe’s novel, Weapon Training is one of the most popular poems that Bruce Dawe wrote about the military life during the Vietnam War. In his novel, he used stronger themes to catch reader’s attention. Weapon Training is about Bruce’s opposition to the Vietnam War. In his poem, he establishes that the Vietnam War will cause hard time for Australian if they involve in it. In the novel, Bruce used dramatic anger by using the voice of the drill Sergeant to establish this idea, he tried to explain that the weapons that are being trained are human being, he tried to explain 'that' the men were forced on recruitment to be solders and trained to kill another human being. The hatred that planted in their hearts made them mortal without mercy and
Those close to them seeked power and wealth, and preyed on innocent women to obtain
Individuals upsurge their powers in society by developing their skills in speech that will eventually empowering over others and stimulating sense of powerlessness in individuals. In the case of Weapons Training, Dawe alerts responders the power of authority in a Sergeant’s potent speech with pejorative language, ‘unsightly fat between your elephant ears open that drain you call a mind’ as it insults the troops with graphic visual imageries as the brain been metaphorically personified and juxtaposed to the drain. This, combined with the assonance of the hyperbole, the persona is allowed to adapt a faster pace and to promote the intensive tone that hence, further accentuating the persona’s power. Moreover, the poem ends dramatically as Dawe states ‘you’re dead, dead, dead’, in which it foreshadows the recruits’ deaths and yet, reinforcing the crudity of wars and reality through the repetition of ‘dead’.
Challenges at War Robert E. Lee once said, “What a cruel thing war is… to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors”. The novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien takes place in Vietnam. He and a handful of other men experience things only one can image and hope they will never have to experience again. They learn how death among them can greatly affect them, and many others. War is not an easy task to get through and these men all had different coping methods.
He and many other did not like them, and they intended to destroy the “wretched
Men went through so many tasks during the Vietnam War physically and mentally. The beginning chapters focus on training for war and being prepared for the worst. For example, when there is a sergeant in a room with the marines. The sergeant walks to the chalk board and writes “AMBUSHES ARE MURDER AND MURDER IS FUN” (36-37). The
Jeff Bussey had no idea how brutal war really was, and he certainly found out the hard way in Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith. Jeff thinks being a soldier would be fun and adventurous. He learns how cruel and brutal war really is, but he also finds love along the way. Harold Keith mixes fact with his story, and not his story with his fact. Which is a good thing.
In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, the author retells the chilling, and oftentimes gruesome, experiences of the Vietnam war. He utilizes many anecdotes and other rhetorical devices in his stories to paint the image of what war is really like to people who have never experienced it. In the short stories “Spin,” “The Man I Killed,” and “ ,” O’Brien gives reader the perfect understanding of the Vietnam by placing them directly into the war itself. In “Spin,” O’Brien expresses the general theme of war being boring and unpredictable, as well as the soldiers being young and unpredictable.
This chapter “The Ghost Soldiers”, showed us how Tim O’Brien and the other soldiers were dealing with the war both physically and psychologically. It also shows us how the Tim O'Brien behaved and felt when he was shot, wounded and had a bacteria infection on his butt and how the war changed the way he thought, and viewed the other soldiers around him. This chapter also contain a lot of psychological lens. From the way Tim O’Brien felt when he was shot and separated from his unit to a new unit to when he wanted revenge on Bobby Jorgenson for almost “killing” him.
Bruce Dawe ultimately exposes the brutal hopelessness of soldiers caught up in foreign conflicts and its impact on family and friends. The poem, Weapons Training, is an entailment of a sergeant desensitising a
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Weapons are deemed as a significant element for military strategies all over the world. Overtime, these illicit weapons distributed to police forces have caused injuries some at minor at levels and whilst some are deemed at extreme levels. Electronic stun devices and other less-lethal weapons are marketed as offering unmitigated benefits to both police and public safety, with this statement there are various problems also associated with these devices such as unnecessary injury and deaths. There are various intentional injuries that police officers are affected by whilst working, the prevalence of injury in the force is rather high. By the 1800s, after departments and police departments distributed weapons and demanded the use of force that
They were cruel to themselves too. They would do things to other people that hurt them mentality but still did it. They were so cruel in many other ways that was just one of them and that is just horrible. The ways they used to kill people are just unbelievable but they just didn't care and still did it and they would just not think and do
The Stories Told by the Soldiers In the book The Things We Carried by Tim O'Brien, he tells the reader stories about his experience in the Vietnam war. He tells stories about before, during and after the war. O’Brien explains his feelings towards the war by hinting it in many of his stories. He uses juxtaposition, diction, irony, metafiction, and repetition.
They had to go through all this horrible stuff just because they were
People should be able to own “assault style” weapons because most people use them responsibly, they are strictly regulated by the government, and people often misuse the word assault rife. People often misuse the word assault rifle when when they are talking about guns civilians have. According to Merriam Webster dictionary, an assault rifle is “any of various automatic or semiautomatic rifles with large capacity magazines designed for military use.” The most important part of that definition is that they are used in the military.