{"id":17164,"date":"2025-11-17T20:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T04:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=17164"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T18:46:36","slug":"pr-to-soldiers-home-bernardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/pr-to-soldiers-home-bernardo\/","title":{"rendered":"PR to “Soldier’s Home” – Bernardo"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I finished reading <\/span>Soldier\u2019s home by Ernest Hemingway, <\/span><\/i>it made me reflect on how hard it is to go back to your old life after you changed, after passing from such a difficult situation and people still want you to be like the old person you were. In the text, I could clearly see that when he used to lie about not liking the war, just for people don’t think he is completely crazy and I completely understand why he was lying for the reason that no one wants to people see yourself as a crazy, different person just because you didn’t hate something that was bad for the rest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While I was reading the text I found a quote in which it showed his perspective on how much things has changed since he left for the war, remembering that he returned one year after from most soldiers:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere were so many good-looking young girls. Most of them had their hair cut short. When he went away only little girls wore their hair like that or girls that were fast. They all wore sweaters and shirt waists with round Dutch collars.It was a pattern\u201d(l. 50-52)<\/span><\/p>\n

After I finished reading this part, it made me think about how the population had changed and grown while he was in the war. People that were still studying when he left, at the time he came back were probably the same age as when he left, and had just recently left the school.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, Krebs wants to leave the small city in Oklahoma where he lived, because he felt that he did not belong there anymore and just wanted to go to a new place where no one would know him and he could have a new start.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe would go to Kansas city and get a job and she would feel all right about it\u201d(l.205-206)<\/span><\/p>\n

This quote made me think that sometimes people just need to go out of their normal zone and try new things in a new place, having a new start, making new friends and where he can be himself and not the old person he was before the war that people wanted him to be again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After I finished reading Soldier\u2019s home by Ernest Hemingway, it made me reflect on how hard it is to go back to your old life after you changed, after passing from such a difficult situation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwi-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17176,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17164\/revisions\/17176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}