D. Salinger's For Esmé-With Love And Squalor

Nobody likes the war and it is really a difficult topic to write on it. Louisa May Alcott expressed her personal experience with a dying war soldier in such a beautiful way that it extract the sympathy and emotions of the audience and readers. In her excerpt “Hospital Sketches”, she writes about a young, brave and bachelor soldier named John, who participated in the civil war in 1863. She encountered him in an army hospital, while working there as a nurse. He was brought there with the fatal injuries. Using her writer’s experience, she presents an emotional retelling of an story, which advances an argument. She gets her readers emotionally involved in this narrative. By using diction, imagery, selection of details and her rhetorical

War is a serious topic that has been around for as long as anyone can remember. Heller’s novel, is a comedy about soldiers during WWII. Yet, when observed closely, these “comic” scenes are actually quite tragic just as most things related to war are.

In the novels The Perks Of Being a Wallflower and The Catcher In The Rye the protagonists share commonalities. This will be a comparison and contrasting of both novels. While both books share many things in common there are many things that differentiate the two. Both are considered very important parts of literature that have touched the life of many, both young and old. The authors, Stephen Chbosky author of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and J. D. Salinger author of The Catcher in The Rye are both very well known writers.

By this quote one can conclude how war had a serious impact on the human psyche and how the young men suffered being there. They suffered in various ways such as emotional, psychological, mental and physical (hunger). This indicates how brutal war was and that no one could get themselves ready for the suffering they had to endure being in that situation at that time. This suffering does not only occur on the battlefield and stay there, but it goes with them everywhere- it is in their minds and also part of them.

Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldiers Home” is about a young man named Krebs who is learning to adjust to society after his experience in Europe during World War I. Hemingway’s purpose for writing this story can be confusing and also very telling. I believe Krebs was not a soldier at all and in fact, deceives his family, his friends, and his community into believing he was an experienced soldier in World War I. At first glance, Krebs may be seen as a war hero. However, by observing the characteristics such as Kreb’s background, actions, motivation, and the author’s Implied Evaluation, we see that he is not a war hero at all.

The soldier describes the gruesomeness of war as, “obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud of vile, incurable sores.” War is unforgettable and scarring. The experiences a soldier intakes are nowhere near attractive. Clearly, the fantasies of war are sensationalized to those that go to war considering they describe it as the complete opposite of what our society portrays it

During the motion picture “A Few Good Men” it obscures the inquiry whether disobedience or obedience is the rational distinction and at what instant does following the orders turn into blind obedience and submission? Furthermore, the movie complicates this theme by establishing military culture where disobedience to a higher power invokes dire repercussions. One example in the motion picture is when United States Marines Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private Louden Downey where instructed by their superiors to give a fellow Marine, Private William Santiago, a Code Red resulting in Private William Santiago death (A Few Good Men). Moreover, Stanley Milgram author of “Perils of Obedience” discussed in the piece the corresponding issue

Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s classic coming of age tale The Catcher in the Rye, entices readers through his hyper-critical scrutinization of the post-war consumer world. The novel itself is acclaimed to be quite autobiographical; the similarities between Salinger and Holden are numerous. Holden is an avid critic of materialistic American ideals, and he aims to preserve innocence in others, and to save himself from falling into the land of adulthood. After failing out of prep school, Holden retires to the streets of New York City, searching for the little purity he has left. Through Holden’s manic and depressive moods, his language, and his relationship with his sister, Holden’s desire to escape the “phoniness”

In the short story, “For Esmé with Love and Squalor”, by J. D. Salinger, the secondary characters play a major role in both saving Sergeant X and contributing to his mental breakdown caused by his exposure to the war. Esmé holds the ideals of innocence and purity that remind Sergeant X that the world is different from the war and people care about his well-being, saving X from mental breakdown. Corporal Z, the antithesis to Esmé drives Sergeant X to insanity through is insensitivity to X’s needs, and his lack of virtue that lead X to believe there is no hope for the world. Charles supplies the elements of joy, humor, youth and innocence necessary to remind X that there is hope and things will get better. The combined efforts of Esmé and Charles reverse the consequences of Corporal Z’s insensitivity and the scars caused by the war. thus, reminding Sergeant X that ideals can still exist even in the most corrupt world.

In the short story of “For Esmé- With Love and Squalor” by J.D Salinger the two main characters, Sergeant X and Esmé are attracted to each other for support in one another and they see themselves in the other person. The theme of the story is human connection, and what an important impact it can have on someone’s life, even in dark times. In New York, Sergeant X describes his wife as breathtakingly levelheaded girl and his mother-in-law Mother Grencher giving the impression that he does not like his home life or is very fond of his wife. Sergeant X was drafted into the war as a spy and part of the British Intelligence in Devon, England. Sergeant X is a unique man, not like the other stereotype soldier. He is

Cynthia Ozick’s story “The Shawl” is told in a way were the readers feel hopelessness and despair. The characters are put in a situation so hopeless there’s no way that they can escape. This text at first begins with confusion, however as you read more you start to put the pieces to gether like a puzzle. Magda the only character who thrives in the story, and still she becomes a victim of the harsh environment around her. At it’s core this text tells of how you can be thrown in an concentration camp, treated as a lower human being, just because your not the perfect white color, and starved to near death, but no amount of oppression could drain the humanity you have inside. Although Stella is a counter to this because she is bitter, and envious

Antisthenes says “There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.” In Sula, We are introduced to the relationship between Nel and Sula, a relationship that was built on love and support, that has taken a turn for the worst once betrayal, envy, and hate is added to the equation. Morrison has used the relationship between Sula and Nel as a metaphor, to show how society will reject an individual once they chose to rebel against the rules created. Not every friendship will remain pure.

Sandburg does this as he describes the horrendous deaths of soldiers “Ten thousand men and boys twist on their bodies in a red soak along a river's edge, Gasping of wounds” Carl Sandburg explains to people that the death of a soldier during war is never as beautiful as society has been tricked into thinking it is. Carl then acknowledges how oblivious society is to this “Who would guess what it cost to move two buttons one inch”. Sandburg uses this to express how society underestimates how painful the death of a soldier is. Just as Owen experienced war, Sandburg experienced a different war in a similar way. As Sandburg fought in the Spanish-American war and journalized World War One, he learned that war is not what people said it would be. He understands the complete and utter horror of the murder of a soldier. By mocking society's opinion of a soldier's life Sandburg hopes to disregard society's misinterpretations of war and explain how it is inhumane for a person to go through a

J.D. Salinger her was born in New York City in 1919. He wrote in the post war time period where writers wrote mostly about aesthetic or social rather than political problems.

Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms covers a romance that takes place during World War I. The novel itself came out shortly after the war, and was the first of Hemingway’s books to become a best-seller. Essentially, the novel contrasts the horrors of war with the romance of Henry and Catherine. Throughout the plot, Hemingway, a World War I veteran himself, uses the events of the book to make a statement about his thoughts on war. The core message of Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is that war damages the soldiers who fight in it both physically and emotionally, which is primarily illustrated by the number of deaths caused directly and indirectly by the war, the actions Henry is forced to take over the course of the book, and Henry’s growing cynicism towards war.