{"id":17109,"date":"2025-11-16T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=17109"},"modified":"2025-11-23T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:01:11","slug":"pr-to-soldiers-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/pr-to-soldiers-home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PR to “Soldiers home”"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading <\/span>\u201cSoldier\u2019s Home,\u201d<\/em> the main thing I kept thinking about was how hard it must be to come back home and feel like everything is the same except for you. Krebs returns from the war, but he doesn\u2019t feel connected to anything anymore, and that really stood out to me. When he says he Did not want any\u00a0 consequences ever again\u201d (ll. 64-66), I realized he doesn\u2019t want stress or expectations. It made me think about times when I feel overwhelmed and just want everything to stop, even though my problems are obviously way smaller than his.<\/p>\n

A part of the story that really got to me was when he says he doesn\u2019t love anyone anymore, even his mother (ll. 177-180). I don\u2019t think he means it in a mean way. To me, it felt like he\u2019s so emotionally tired that he can\u2019t feel anything. That idea made me feel kind of worried, because sometimes people look fine on the outside but are completely shut down inside, and others don\u2019t notice.<\/p>\n

I also felt frustrated reading how people in his town want him to talk about the war in a way that makes them<\/em> comfortable, not him. For example, they want exciting stories, even though he doesn\u2019t want to share them, so he lies (ll. 17-22). It reminded me of how sometimes people don\u2019t listen to what you actually feel, they just want the version that fits what they want. I think that would make anyone feel even more alone.<\/p>\n

The scene with his mother near the end bothered me the most. She wants him to promise he will be \u201ca good boy\u201d again (l. 194). Firstly I thought it was really weird, but It also made me think about how people sometimes expect you to stay the same forever, even when you\u2019ve changed. Krebs isn\u2019t trying to be difficult, he just doesn\u2019t know who he is anymore.<\/p>\n

Overall, the story made me think about loneliness and how hard it is when people want you to act \u201cnormal\u201d even when you can\u2019t. It made me feel sad for Krebs, but also more aware that people might be going through things we don\u2019t see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading \u201cSoldier\u2019s Home,\u201d the main thing I kept thinking about was how hard it must be to come back home and feel like everything is the same except for you. Krebs returns from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwi-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17110,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109\/revisions\/17110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}