Character Analysis: The Homeless Soldier

| |Graduated from oxford in 1916 and began to write a collection of poems |

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Before the narrator was deployed his mother told him that no matter what happened, he that must always look after his brother. Then she proceeded to tell him a story about his father and his father’s brother. She said that one Saturday night his father and his father’s brother were coming home and they were both a little drunk. They were headed down a hill and beneath them was a road that turned off from the highway. So, his father’s brother, being kind of frisky, decided to run down this hill. Then his father heard a car motor not too far away, and that same moment, his brother stepped from behind the tree and started to cross the road. So, his father started to run down the hill and when he looked at the car he noticed that it was full of drunken white men looking to have a good time. When the men saw his father’s brother they let out great whoops and hollers and aimed the car at his father’s brother, running him over. So, as a result of hearing that story the narrator promised to his mother that he would always look after his brother and the narrator kept his promise, but in the end he just pushed his brother further and further

The author, Tim O'Brien, is writing about an experience of a tour in the Vietnam conflict. This short story deals with inner conflicts of some individual soldiers and how they chose to deal with the realities of the Vietnam conflict, each in their own individual way as men, as soldiers.

The theme of Ernest Hemingway's “A Soldier’s Home” is one that is all too familiar. The ironic title suggests to the reader of a young Marine who returns home after the war where his existence is unnoticed and the true meaning of “home” is now lost. The short story is of Harold Krebs, a young Kansas City Methodist college student who returned to his home state of Oklahoma two years after the beginning of World War I. The internal struggle of adjusting post-war within Krebs is the main conflict of Hemingway’s story.

Both boys in the writing go through the same changes in mentality. Before they enlist, they assume that war was this great thing, and they both want to be a part of it and fight for the nation they both love and live in. What they fail to realize is that they are both too innocent for something as brutal, and devastating as this. They are both affected by this when they figure out what combat is really like. The two have their own way of adjusting to their new lives, but in the end the two emerge as mature soldiers, and courageous young

In an attempt to take away some of the guilt he has placed upon himself from the Vietnam War, O’Brien tells his tales –in the fictional book The Things They Carried- of the many challenges he faced as a soldier. In On the Rainy River, through the illusions on the banks of the river he sees his past, present and future each memory reveals a part of him. O’Brien’s thoughtful story about death -shown in The Man I Killed- illustrates that the jungles of Vietnam blur boundaries between hallucinations and actuality. The killing of soldiers both American and Vietnamese feed into the disillusions and sensations built up from war, but soldiers use an “anesthetic” to shelter themselves from everything that goes on.

By this point, he is a different person than he was as a child, a college graduate with a distaste for the Vietnam war like many other American citizens of the time. He believes himself to be "too smart, too compassionate, too everything" for the war (O 'Brien 26). By being forced to war by a draft board, he rages against having no options and the unfairness of it all---he revels in his righteousness, his feeling of being wronged, and uses this to help convince himself that he has every right to run from Vietnam. O 'Brien convinces himself he has every right to run from death, yet still managed to be divided when it came to actually getting up to run. Thus, when he abandons his little town to flee to Canada and escape the war, his constant juggle between doing what was expected of him and doing what would keep him alive is the conflict between the young boy clinging to Linda alive and healthy and the soldier he will soon have to become. In the end, his fear of facing the disappoint of his family and peers is too great, and he returns home to face the war. While this decision is what gets him to Vietnam, however, it is not the decision that alters him forever. No, it is Vietnam that sheds away both the little boy O 'Brien once was and the righteous college graduate who feared his town 's judgement.

His first chapbook, On the Wing, published by Barnes and Noble as a regional publication, his second chapbook Father of Boards and Woodwinds, published by the Inevitable Press for the Laguna Poets Series. He was a finalist in the Tennessee Middle State Chapbook contest in 1996 for his chapbook, If I could Imagine. He won the 1997 Tennessee Middle State Chapbook contest with his chapbook Among Men. In 1999 The Laguna Poets Series published his fourth Chapbook Now She Bends Away on Inevitable Press.

The presence of additional risk for homelessness specifically associated with Veteran status is puzzling in that it occurs among a population that shows better outcomes on almost all socioeconomic measures and that has exclusive access to an extensive system of benefits that include comprehensive healthcare services, disability and pension assistance, and homeless services (Fargo, et al, 24).

His nightmare begins when he looks at himself in the middle of the destruction of the war he suffer when he saw his friend Silas Stone a comrade 19 years old who died drowned in the river and the rest of the corps floating around him. He made a big effort to save himself he arrives to the “Union Army” looking for help in the middle of the forest.

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Narrator Jake Barnes is very preoccupied in the life of non-stop drinking and constant partying. The War directly affected Jake as he became disabled during the war, leaving him impotent, and ultimately keeping him from being with the woman who

This passage is very significant to the reality of the soldiers in the Vietnam War and brings to life the setting of the entire novel. The soldiers were primarily teenagers and young men in their early twenties who had not yet had the chance to experience life. They soon had found themselves in the midst of an intense war with nothing but uncertainty and fear. They hated it and they loved the fear and adrenaline that ran through their skin and bones. It

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