Prisoner Of War Exhibit Analysis

In the novel The Things They Carried, the author Tim O’Brien recounts stories of soldiers’ experiences in Vietnam, utilizing a variety of stylistic choices to convey his well-defined messages about Veteran mental health. Most notable is his use of parallelism between veterans’ lives through the stages of the war and after the war, showcasing how the stories one creates while in war remain with them throughout their life. It is important to highlight how young these kids were before being drafted. To showcase this, O’Brien utilizes imagery and repetition in the chapter

In the fictional novel The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien vividly explains the fear and trauma the soldiers encountered during the Vietnam War. Many of these soldiers are very young and inexperienced. They begin to witness their acquaintances’ tragic demise, and kill other innocent lives on their own. Many people have a background knowledge on the basis of what soldiers face each day, but they don’t have a clear understanding of what goes through these individual’s minds when they’re at war. O’Brien gives descriptive details on the soldiers’ true character by appealing to emotions, using antithesis and imagery.

Have you read a book that contains feelings like guilt, shame, love, and embarrassment? Or have you asked yourself why people did not want to go to the Vietnam war? Tim O’ Brien is the one of ones who did not want to go to Vietnam. In fact, he went to the war, and he was a soldier in Vietnam. When he got out of the military, he decided to write a book, The Things They Carried.

The time bounds of the POW museum stretch further in that they represent POWs through various periods. This means that there is a lot of information included on the time before, or after the events that took place at this specific historical site. •Within the historical site and prisoner of war museum the creators have specifically designed the place to mainly affect the pathos, or emotional patterns of the visitor. They provide models of the prisoners characterized in a suffering state of being. The outside of the museum characterized prisoners in Andersonville prison during the civil war, and on the inside of the museum they provide the visitor with information of POWs over American history. The museum offers two 30 minute videos called "Voices from Andersonville" and "Echoes of Captivity". The first video provides the visitor with information on Andersonville’s Camp Sumter and the second video provides the visitor with information on the prisoners from the various wars (including the civil war) that have been fought. The museum often times put emphasis on the amount of pain and suffering that prisoners endured. This seemed to be the main purpose, to captivate the visitor’s emotions and to inform the visitor about these

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the internment of Japanese Americans on the West coast of the United States. On going tension between the United States and Japan rose in the 1930’s due to Japan’s increasing power and because of this tension the bombing at Pearl Harbor occurred. This event then led the United States to join World War II. However it was the Executive Order of 9066 that officially led to the internment of Japanese Americans. Japanese Americans, some legal and illegal residents, were moved into internment camps between 1942-1946. The internment of Japanese Americans affected not only these citizens but the

Many wars of the 20th Century were caused by leaders aiming to create a so-called Master Race. As a result many millions of soldiers and civilians were killed in conflict. Adolf Hitler, the German Fuehrer, decided that one group of people in particular needed to be eradicated: The Jew. He set up concentration camps and tried to round up all of Europe’s Jews to create “the final solution”. The Jews were either forced to work slave labor, or face extermination if they were too week or unwilling. One survivor of this Holocaust, Viktor Frankl, wrote a work of psychology, Man’s Search For Meaning, that described the horrific conditions of camp life. Frankl explains that

The u.s. Holocaust memorial museum was dedicated in 1993. The museum’s permanent exhibit titled the holocaust is divided into three parts. “Nazi Assault,Final Solution, Last Chapter”. Upon entrance,visitors are given a card with the name of a real person who was persecuted by Nazis or their collaborators. They are guided on a path through a three level exhibit, which contains photos, artifacts, and audio and video footage as well as large scale installations, including a polish railcar that was used to transport jews to concentration camps and visitors are allowed to board. Throughout the exhibit visitors are given a chance to learn about the fate of the individual on their assigned identity card.

I hope to see museums make more concerted efforts to educate the public. Too many exhibits are of the “passive, didactic looking” than like the engaging Object Stories program (Dartt, Murawski). Exhibits should seek to tell untold narratives, and programs should be places of communication and cross-cultural encounters. For too long, difficult confrontations have been avoided, both inside the museum, and by dominant communities

Visiting the Manzanar exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center was pretty sad for me, but also a reminder. I already learned what happen to Japanese Americans during the time of World War II. I bin to a similar museum before at Little Tokyo where it had a live replica of the internment camps these people had to stay during the time of war. It is shocking to see new photos on how it felt being inside those camps. To be honest, I felt like this was a dark hole that America can’t get rid of. It also sad that some people in this country want to repeat the same mistakes, by discriminating people, for the violent acts they weren’t even involve with. This art exhibit is an important lesson of one of America most disappointing movements, as Japanese

Memories and stories swarming the mind and twisted by imagination are the only glimpse of humanity a man can hold on to while at war. Through stories, men at war can share their thinning humanity with one another. The deafening silence of war defeats the human spirit and moral compass, thus it is not only man against man but man against sanity. Tim O 'Brien 's “The Things They Carried” provides a narrative of soldiers in the Vietnam War holding on to the only parts of themselves through their imagination. O’Brien employs symbolic tokens, heavy characterization, and the grueling conflict of man to illustrate how soldiers create metaphorical stories to ease the burden of war.

The National WWII Museum, originally founded as the D-Day Museum in 2000, offers visitors the chance to delve into the history and legacy of “the war that changed the world.” The museum features exhibits, multimedia experiences, and an extnesive collection of artifacts and first-person oral histories, as well as a period dinner theater and

In “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien one is subjected to the in workings of a soldiers mind during the Vietnam War. Although on the surface it may seem just a story of what soldiers carried with them throughout the war, tangible or not, a deeper understanding of what these men faced shines through. As a veteran of the Vietnam war O’Brien has insight that many will never know except through his many writings. His experience throughout the war was seen to shape his stories and “The Things They Carried” is no different. In this story one finds a comparison between the material and immaterial baggage accompanying the soldiers, the soldiers motivation due to their fellow soldier, the uncaring attitude that the war has imparted on the

“The Things They Carried” provides a personal view into the minds of soldiers, and tells us the emotional and psychological costs of war. The soldiers may have carried physical objects, but some of these objects connect to a deeper psychological weight most do not see.

Many citizens of the United States immediately after the Civil War knew very little of the atrocities of that occurred in the prisoner of war camps. News that their family member was in a prisoner of war camp was usually dreaded by the family of the captured soldiers. While being dead was much worse the families never truly knew what was going on inside the camps. For the Confederacy, many feared Rock Island, but there was a just as deadly camp just north of Rock Island in Chicago. Once the war had ended the atrocities of what occurred inside the prisoner of war camps became apparent. Suddenly multiple fingers were pointed at what was the culprit for such deplorable conditions. The pictures, descriptions, and accounts of what happened inside the prisoner of war camps became a part of not only history but the media as well. Multiple books were written about the prisoner of war camps, several works of fiction reference the prisoner of war camps. Andersonville is almost unanimously regarded as the worst camp for a Union soldier to get sent to. Rock Island seems to be the place that many agree as the worst camp that a Confederate soldier could get sent to. Rock Island is even mentioned in several works of fiction, including Gone With The Wind. In Gone With The Wind the main character Scarlett O’Hara’s sister in law, Melanie Wilkes received a letter telling her that her husband Ashley Wilkes had been captured and taken to a horrible place called Rock Island. However, while Rock

Blue and Red lights flash in your peripherals. The metal is cold against your skin restraining the movements. Pulling and jerking against the bonds but you can't break free. Chains rattling. Walking behind the two-way mirror staring into the interrogation room You see yourself being escorted to the sole table in the center of the room.