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Jake Goldie said...Jake Goldie
9-23-08
In The Red Badge Of Courage Stephen Crane uses Figurative language to grasp the
reader. This book is about a man Henry Fleming who has low self confidence and doesn’t feel
like he has enough courage. Henry who was attracted to the army because he wanted to be a
hero. When it hits him that he is going to have to fight he gets afraid and questions his courage,
because he feels if there is a battle he will run. In the beginning of the book when he was in his
first battle there was a quote that stood out to me, “He suddenly lost concern for himself, and
forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of
which he was a part a regiment, an army, a cause, or a country was in a crisis. He was welded
into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. For some moments he could
not flee, no more than a little finger can commit a revolution from a hand”(Crane 32).At this
point in the book Henry had to face his fears and fight against the Confederate army, and they
won. I felt this book was a hard read that really painted a picture in my mind helping me see
what war was all about. When Henry saw the wounded men he thought of the wound of like a,
“Red Badge of Courage” showing how Crane uses Figurative Language. I felt that this book
made me very sad at times. For instance when he watched his friend Jim die. In this book. When
Henry gets shot he meets another solider named Wilson who cares for Henry and they become
good friends. After his friend Jim dies Henry uses he goes crazy and takes it out on the battle
field and “fights like a lion” also showing how Stephen uses Figurative Language. At the end
the book he has realized that he has overcome “the red sickness” of battle and became one of the
best soldiers in his regiment. In this book Stephen uses Figurative Language throughout the
whole book really helping you get a feel for how it was like fighting in the civil war.
In the book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins writes in first person narrative and inderect characterization on himself in the book. As a highly paid economic hitman, John Perkins cheats countries and their economies. Through his life, his power keeps rising. He cheats eceonomies in a way that nobody realizes that their country was not cheated in any way. "I felt terrible. But later, I walked alone back to the Prudential Center, I had to admit to the cleverness of the scheme." (Perkins 27) The author uses inderect characterization by assorting the main character with "I" and his personal feelings, so the reader feels like in his positin.
1:42 PMThings I learned about Miep Gies:
*When she got her job working for Mr. Frank, she was originally replacing someone that was out sick, and she mainly got the job because her native toungue was German.
*She almost got deported because she could only prove that her birth was Aryan(non-Jewish) by going back to Vienna, and there wasn’t much time.
*She was going to try to bribe the Nazis to let the Van Daans, and the Franks go free (from the concentration camp.)
I want to say that if I had bow Jewish descent (but I’m 1/16), that I would’ve helped Jews go into hiding, like Miep and Mr. Kraler. But the truth is I don’t know that I would be brave enough. I would probably help if I had a ‘partner in crime’ so-to-speak. It would be the right thing to do.
If I was going to be sent to a concentration camp, however, I am quite sure I would go into hiding, because it is unhuman to loose the will to live, or to fight, isn’t it? People should fight for their lives until their very last breath. I, like the Van Daans and Franks would probably try to flee the country, or even continent when the Nazi proparganda started.
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