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    Many authors often express internal emotions through their own writing. “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway is a short story about a returning Soldier from war. The story takes place in the late 1910’s. Krebs, the main character returns from war, lost and unable to transition from Soldier to civilian. After returning home, Krebs misses the “greeting of heroes” from his home town in Oklahoma (Hemingway). Throughout the story Krebs mentions several situations of being uncomfortable around the people

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    “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway and “Speaking of Courage” by Tim O’Brien both address the difficulties faced by veterans returning from war. Krebs and Norman Bowker both have endured trauma, and have many similarities in their experiences once they’ve returned to their hometowns. Both have a dissociated view of their own lives, as well as the lives of those around them, lack an outlet, and have endured trauma in their time at war. However, the two also have some differences. Krebs lacks any

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    language such as similes, metaphors, and imagery in addition to sensory details that are present throughout each work. Due to the literary styles of these three authors, their works of writing reveal how the experiences of war and their effects on a soldier’s innermost feelings will inevitably have a deteriorating effect on a soldier during the war and after he or she has been relieved of their duties. Body 1: In his well-known novel All Quiet on the Western Front, set during World War I on the front

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    live in the world, there is always countries fighting and there is always people gone fighting to protect their country. Those people who care about may be a mom, a dad, a brother or sister, who a risking their life for you. In the short story, Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway; the main character Howard Krebs has just return to his hometown in Oklahoma, after fighting in Europe. Coming back from war is very hard, no only for Krebs but for anyone who has fought. He basically loses connection with

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    seeing through the eyes of someone else. In “Soldier’s home” by Ernest Hemingway, the author illustrates how a person who has been through war can change dramatically if enough time has passed. This story tells of a man named Harold (nick name: Krebs) who joined the marines and has finally come back after two years. Krebs is a lost man who feels it’s too complicated to adjust to the normal way of living and is pressured by his parents. In “Soldier’s home” Krebs is completely different from when

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    Consequence "He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences," (2).The short story "Soldiers Home" by Ernest Hemingway tells of the life of Harold Krebs. The story details how people can change after war and how PTSD can affect someone. The story shows how the world moves on from war while some cannot. Krebs was a normal young man before he went to war. He had attended college like young people do. He also had a somewhat

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    of writing is said to show masculine and Katherine Mansfield style of writing shows feminine. Let examine by looking at a short store from each author. First looking at Hemingway’s: “Soldier’s Home” is a story that place in Kansas, after World War I around 1919. The main character Harold Krebs return home sometime after the war feeling disoriented and empty inside. Krebs, tries to return to his old life, living with parents and sisters. No one in the family notice his post-war trauma and

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    Ernest Hemingway’s “soldier’s Home” is a story of a soldier who comes back from World War I as a changed person. The story tells of his inability to fit back into the society. Krebs feels like he doesn’t belong anywhere no matter where he goes or what he does. Like other authors Ernest Hemingway tried to show his own life after he came back from war throughout the character of Harold Krebs. As much as Krebs believes in the truth, people around him make him lie. The story displays the conflict between

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    In “Soldier’s Home,” by Ernest Hemingway, a man named Harold Krebs has just returned home from World War 1. This journey leads to the unraveling of an inner conflict. These changes occurred within the character, as well as family and surrounding people. The character in the book struggles with society’s perceived norms; and his newfound distortion of reality. The beginning of Hemingway’s story paints a picture of the main character as you typical, young, Midwestern collegiate man. His life was

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    Ernest Hemingway wrote a “Soldier’s Home” in 1925. In this short story, Hemingway demonstrates the life of an American returning from War World one and his transformation as a person. Harold Krebs, the main character, was deeply emotionally affected by his experience in the war. In these following paragraphs I will try to demonstrate how Harold is completely alienated from those who surround him and the consequences that entail from his hurt soul. The story begins with a picture taken of Harold

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