A Beneficial Path

A Beneficial Path

  • Submitted By: Tjuf
  • Date Submitted: 01/19/2009 11:28 AM
  • Category: English
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Essay About Soldier’s Home A) After some time his mother attempted to direct Krebs towards a beneficial path suggesting a job and to attend church, but he didn’t respond, so his mother asked him if he didn’t love his mother anymore. In a moment he couldn’t express his true feelings, so he replied that he doesn’t love any longer. The reaction caused Mrs. Krebs to cry, so in response he lied to his mother that his answer didn’t reflect his true feelings and that he was shortly disturbed by some unrelated event. His mother held Krebs as if he were an infant by calling her mummy and promises her to be a good boy – after that kneeling with her as she prays for him. But Harold knew that he couldn’t revert to his pre-war self. Harold decided to leave his hometown and his mother behind for work in Kansas City, where he planned to live without emotional complications and the need to fit in the parts that other people wanted him to play. Harold Krebs is the protagonist because he is the leading character, but at the same time he is the antagonist, meaning that he’s kind of acting against himself. In the meantime Mrs. Krebs, Mr. Krebs and the whole town are also antagonists, because they don’t want to talk with him about the truth of the war so he’s by himself dealing with the war traumas. At last Harold is also a dynamic character because he’s changing from beginning to the end and finally when he’s all changed he leaves town. The plot is chronological but there’s a big hole where he’s attending the war the only thing described is shortly where he have been. First an introduction with the background information which contains his collage name and that he has attended WW1. Then a complication when the ex-soldier arrives back in town afterwards the climax or the turning point is when Harold lies to Mrs. Krebs after he can’t express his true feelings. At last a resolution and epiphany when we hear his plans of going to Kansas City where he can be himself and alone, and...

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