After I was reading \u00a0\u201cSoldier\u2019s Home\u201d made me think about how hard it is to come back to your old life when you don\u2019t feel like the same person anymore. I mean in the story, Krebs returns home from the war, but everything feels different to him even though the town looks the same. This made me think about how sometimes a place can stay the same, but ‘you’ as a person change on the inside, and that creates a distance you can\u2019t easily explain.<\/p>\n
One of the quotes that really stayed with me was when Hemingway writes:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHe did not want any consequences ever again\u201d (l. 70).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
When I read that, I thought about how mentally tired Krebs must be. It\u2019s not that he\u2019s lazy or something like that but it\u2019s that he doesn\u2019t have the energy to deal with anything anymore. I\u2019ve had days where even small things feel like too much, so I can\u2019t imagine how heavy everything feels for him after the war.<\/p>\n
Another moment \u00a0was when he tells his mother:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI don\u2019t love anybody\u201d (l. 190).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
He says this after she tries to push him to be the person he used to be. This made me think about how sometimes people say things that sound hard because they\u2019re confused or hurting inside. It didn\u2019t make me think he\u2019s a bad person but like it made me think he\u2019s lost. I felt kind of weird because reading this part, but it also felt real. Many people hide their emotions, and Krebs is one of the few characters who actually says what\u2019s inside, even if it comes out wrong.<\/p>\n
The scene where he watches the girls walk by and thinks:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe world they were in was not the world he was in\u201d (l. 86)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
was the moment I understood him really much. It made me think about times when I felt out of place, even around people I know. That feeling of being there physically but not emotionally connected is something many people experience, just in smaller ways.<\/p>\n
At the end, when Krebs thinks about leaving for Kansas City, it made me think about how sometimes people need a fresh start you know, not because they have a plan, but because they need space to breathe and to think alone , just like to be ok with yourself .<\/p>\n
Overall, the story made me think about understanding people who seem distant. They might just be trying to find themselves again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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