{"id":17149,"date":"2025-11-17T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=17149"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:03:08","slug":"personal-response-to-soldiers-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/personal-response-to-soldiers-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Response to &#8220;Soldier&#8217;s Home&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"103\" data-end=\"648\">Reading <em data-start=\"111\" data-end=\"127\">Soldier\u2019s Home<\/em> made me think a lot about how trauma can change someone in ways that aren\u2019t easy to see from the outside. What really hit me was how empty and disconnected Krebs seems. It made me imagine what it would feel like to come home and suddenly feel like you don\u2019t fit in anymore. That idea honestly made me sad, because it reminded me that some people deal with things they can\u2019t easily explain. The way Krebs doesn\u2019t react to anything made me think about how being emotionally numb and empty can be so painful.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"650\" data-end=\"1100\">The way he talks about girls also stood out to me. It made me uncomfortable because he looks at them like they are just objects instead of real people. At the same time, I could tell that this way of thinking came from his experiences and the things he saw during the war. It made me think about how trauma can change someone\u2019s views without them even realizing it. I was both feeling bad for him and being bothered by the way he sees girls.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1102\" data-end=\"1501\">What stayed with me the most was how lost he seems. It made me wonder what it must be like to feel nothing toward your own family or your own life. That idea is honestly scary. It made me think about how some people might look \u201cfine\u201d on the outside but are struggling on the inside. The story made me think more about how important emotional connection is and how hard it must be to live without it.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1503\" data-end=\"1818\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">In the end, <em data-start=\"1515\" data-end=\"1531\">Soldier\u2019s Home<\/em> made me feel a mix of sadness, confusion, and frustration. It shows how someone can return from something like war and still feel like they don\u2019t belong anywhere. The story made me think about how trauma doesn\u2019t just disappear and how it can change a person in quiet but powerful ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Soldier\u2019s Home made me think a lot about how trauma can change someone in ways that aren\u2019t easy to see from the outside. What really hit me was how empty and disconnected Krebs seems. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwi-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17149","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17161,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17149\/revisions\/17161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}