{"id":17166,"date":"2025-11-17T21:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T05:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=17166"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:03:08","slug":"pr-to-soldiers-home-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/pr-to-soldiers-home-5\/","title":{"rendered":"PR to &#8220;Soldier&#8217;s Home&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><em>Soldier&#8217;s Home<\/em> by Ernest Hemingway is a story about Krebs, a soldier who returned from war, and struggles to get back to normal life. What stood out to me was how Krebs&#8217; experience of war is compared to the other soldiers we have read about. He grew up in Kansas, a very conservative place, and even attended a Methodist college, which shows that he was raised in a traditional, religious environment. However, after the war he no longer felt he fit into his community. He had trouble telling the truth and connecting with his community. This story made me reflect on the fact that some soldiers felt good or cool during the war, yet they still experienced different forms of trauma.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">All of the times that had been able to make him feel cool and clear inside himself when he thought of them; the times so long back when he had done the one thing, the only thing for a man to so, easily and naturally, when he might have done something else, now lost their cool, valuable quality and then were lost themselves ( ll.19-22).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Unlike soldiers who suffered from the trauma of war, Krebs actually felt good and cool about how he fought.He is confident about the decisions he made and proud that he didn\u2019t even run away. This is why he lies when people ask about his experience of the war. If he tells the truth, they might think he is strange or even frightening because his reaction to war is not what they thought.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cGod has some work for every one to do,\u201d his mother said. \u2018There can be no idle hands in His Kingdom.\u201d \u2018I\u2019m not in His Kingdom,\u201d Krebs said. \u201cWe are all of us in His Kingdom.\u201d Krebs felt embarrassed and resentful as always (ll.156-157).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He had felt sorry for his mother, and he had made him lie (l.205).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">These moments show how disconnected he feels from his family and community. Taking to his parents forces him into conversations about God, family, work. Topics that make him lie again.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldier&#8217;s Home by Ernest Hemingway is a story about Krebs, a soldier who returned from war, and struggles to get back to normal life. What stood out to me was how Krebs&#8217; experience of war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wwi-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17166","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17167,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17166\/revisions\/17167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}