{"id":17134,"date":"2025-11-17T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=17134"},"modified":"2025-11-23T15:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T23:03:04","slug":"pw-to-soldiers-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/pw-to-soldiers-home\/","title":{"rendered":"pw PR to soldiers home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After I&#8217;ve read <em>Soldiers Home by Ernest Himgway, i<\/em> felt a lot of frustration towards Krebs, I also felt a little sympathetic, but mainly frustrated. in the story, it shows how hard it id for him to adjust to normal life after returning from World War one. For me what really stood out was how disconnected he was from everyone and everything in the town, and how he felt disconnected from his family and himself. The war shows how it changed him and how he cant explain that but no one around him understood that.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Honestly i thought the relationship between him and his mother was a really emotional part. She wanted him to go back to being the person he was before war, but how can he? When she asks if he loved her and he says no, it doesnt feel cruel it just feels like hes too numb and tired to pretend, or to love anyone. Which made me feel quite upset, it shows how bad trauma can affect someones ability to care about their loved ones and really connect with them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another thing that stood out was krebs avoiding all commitments, if its with girls, a job, or conversations. It just seemed like he wanted peace and quiet after everything thats happened in the war, the world just keept\u00a0 pushing him to move on with everything eventhough hes not ready.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall the story made me think about how hard it can be for the soldiers to return after all the trauma and line work theyve done. How everyone wants him and everyone else to get over it so quick but they physically cant. A very quiet story, leaving a strong impression. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I&#8217;ve read Soldiers Home by Ernest Himgway, i felt a lot of frustration towards Krebs, I also felt a little sympathetic, but mainly frustrated. in the story, it shows how hard it id for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwi-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17139,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17134\/revisions\/17139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}