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The story focuses on the human psyche, and addresses the difficulties of life after war. It especially focuses on how the main character feels isolated and alienated when he returns home from war, and has to face the complexities of society and human relations again. This is a general problem for many war veterans, and by addressing it in the story, it addresses a societal problem in general, which is a typical modernist trait.

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First of all, the most dominating theme must be post-war life conditions, as we see the whole text’s focus on consequences and struggles in the development of a normal life after posting. As an example of the mental difficulties in a post-war situation, Krebs concludes: “He had been a good soldier. That made a difference” (p. 28, ll. 1-2). Here we see his focus on validation to disprove his thoughts of his posting being futile.

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Themes of the short story:

One of the main themes in ”Soldiers home” is transformation. As we follow a soldier: Krebs, who just returned from world war 1, and how he changed as a person after participating in WW1. Another theme could be how soldiers normally is seen as heroes, who has been out there serving their country - but in reality they are clearly traumatized andstruggle to get back into their former life. They experienced such horrors, that no one is able to understand, except from those who were there themselves. Also no one is really interested in hearing about the war, which can be seen in the following quotation: ”She often came in when he was in bed and asked him to tell her about the war, but her attention always wandered.” This quotation also shows how Krebs has no one to confide him to.

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In the short story we follow Krebs., a man that has come home from the war. After his return he is not the same person, he has turned nonsocial. A theme in the story could be what ýou lose in the war. Krebs has lost his believe in god, because god wasnt there in the war even when Krebs prayed for some kind of rescue. The old Krebs didnt return home. Insteed a new nonsocial Krebs returned home to his family.

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The story comments on such issues as ethical values (how the horrors of war change a person) and religious values (as the protagonist Krebs has changed his beliefs during the war, seen in the quotation:“”Now, you pray Harold,” she said. “I can’t,” Krebs said.” probably because he in the war had to face the question: could a god let such atrocities as those committed in a time of war happen?). These subejcts are common in modernist litterature.

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The ending reveals that Krebs has lost his believe in any God/christianity, as he want his mother to pray for him to seek religious help to get him success in his adult life. The reason why Krebs no longer believes in any religion, could be the feeling of the pointlessness, the war gave him and that dominated Kreb’s life, when he went home to Oklahoma.

The war has been difficult to handle for him, because of it being very stressful and eventful and this could be the reason why: “He had tried so to keep his life from being complicated” (p. 32, ll. 5-6). Furthermore he avoids additional contact with his mother and afterwards he avoids a meeting with his father. Instead he decides to go watching Helen play indoor baseball, which again is the easiest way away from any problems and other complications.

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One of the themes is finding yourself after the war, have control over the real world Is right now and he is not in the war anymore . Kreb have to finding himself after what happen and trying to be strong and not let the war control his life

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Consider the themes of the story.
Some of the themes in the short story "soldier's home" are the effect of the war. Krebs has a difficult time with finding his identity after the war. Krebs has clear change in his
personality- he went from being a religious man and very outgoing to being very isolated and losing his faith in god. Krebs loses his innocence when he goes to the war and his values changes which is seen in the miscommunication between Krebs and his family.

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The story relates to modernism in which Krebs has to face the complexities of life after he has returned from the war. Krebs has a hard time facing these complexities, which seems rather simple to anyone else, as seen in the quotation: “Vaguely he wanted a girl but he did not want to have to work to get her.” Getting a girlfriend is mostly a task that any boy would like to take on, but this simple act seems very challenging to Krebs.

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I think one of the most important themes of the short story is the personal change a soldier goes through during and after a war psychological. Their lives are changed forever and their perspective of the whole world and the society will never be the same. For Krebs this means that he is having a difficult time finding anything that's important for him - he is numb as he didn't have anyone to confide himself to when he came back to normal life. While his family they continue to live as they always have, he experienced something horrible that nobody really understand. War changed him as a person and now it is the only thing i identify himself with - for example when he looks in history books in the library.

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3. Soldier’s Home is a modernist short story, as the way Ernest Hemingway is expressing himself is different from how writers originally expressed themselves in the Romantism. Hemingway use the iceberg theory, which means that the reader has to interpret a lot of the meaning of the story, as the writer keeps the point of the story beneath the surface. An example of this is: “At first Krebs, who had been at Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne St. and in the Argonne did not want to talk about the war at all” (p. 24, ll. 18-20). The unwritten fact here, is that normally people would regard the mentioned places, as somewhere you really want to go, but the actual reason why Krebs doesn’t want to talk about that he has visited these places, is that he went there, when the places were war zones.

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Astrid - Consider how it is a modernist story

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Astrid - Consider how it is a modernist story

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The main focus of the short story is dealing with the complexity of the human mind. It examines how the traumatic experiences of the war has influenced Krebs' psyche, and this forces the reader to consider how deep scars it leaves on the victim of post traumatic stess. In continuation of this, it must also be considered as a modernist trait, how the story leaves a lot unsaid for the reader to figure out by understanding the mind of Krebs.

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2.Consider the themes of the story.

One of the main themes of the story is the feeling of alienation. When coming home from the war Krebs is detatched from the society surrounding him. One of the reasons might be, that people didn't greet him, when he came back from the war, and so he had no one to talk to neither his family - "Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it." - being alone with his emotions and experiences causes him to feel alienated and not wanting to reconnect with his family nor people close to him.

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2. consider the themes of the story:
I think that one of the most relevant themes of the short story is the consequences and the trauma, that the returning soldiers has to go through alone. Krebs is an example of this. He clearly feels lonely and does not find anything or anyone important anymore and because of the horrible things he has seen, he feels that the everyday-life is meaningless. : "Your father is worried, too," his mother went on. "He thinks you have lost your ambition, that you haven´t got a definite aim in life"(p.30.ll.22-23).
One of the themes is definitely also love. Krebs says that he does not love anyone and that might be because he is protecting himself, and does not wanna loose anything if he goes back into war.

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in the short story "Soldier's home" we meet soldier Krebs after his return home from WW1. His experiences in the war has changed him and therefore one of the main themes in the short story is transition. Krebs goes through several transitions and one of them is going from being a child to an adult. We ar not told Krebs age before he goes to war, but he went to college and was not allowed to drive the fathers car, as described here: "Before Krebs went away to the war he had never been allowed to drive the family motor car." (p.24, l.33)This quotation shows that he was seen as a child, at least by his parents. When Krebs returns from the war he has changed a lot. He has become numb to his emotions. An example of this is seen here in conversation with his mother: I don't love anybody." (p.30,l.10). this quotation shows this numb person Krebs has become, but also it shows a outdistancing of his mother and the rest of the family that is normal in the transition of going from child to adult, even this is more extreme than usual.

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2. Themes of the story
A theme in the short story ”Soldier’s Home” is numbness. This is a consequence of Krebs being in the war, and it has changed him because now Krebs does not feel interested in girls if it means that he has to work to get one - he only wants something non-committal because as he says, “It wasn’t worth it.” (p. 26). Furthermore, we see how he cannot be sincere when his mother asks him if he loves her: “’(…) Don’t you love your mother, dear boy?‘ ‘No,’ Krebs said. (…) She started crying (…) I didn’t mean I didn’t love you’ (…) He had felt sorry for his mother and she had made him lie.” (p. 31-32). This underlines how Krebs is unable to feel anything even for his own mother.

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2. Consider the themes of the story.

The story has several themes. One of the themes is transformation. As a reader we get to see the transformation Krebs goes through. Before leaving for the war Krebs was religious, outgoing, had close connections, a family guy, fitted in and was seen as a child by his parents. But when he returns from the war he has gone through a transformation. His experiences in war has suddenly made him an adult but he is not as outgoing as before. He starts to question everything and everyone around him. Now he has a different outlook on life: “He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences”. (p. 26, ll. 30-32)

Another theme is adaptation. Krebs has gone through a life-changing event which has caused him to go through a transformation. He has come out as a person who now questions everything and more importantly wants to live a life without any consequences. As a result, Krebs has to choose how to re-adapt himself in order to understand life again.

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Hemingway's theme in the short story is to bring focus to the topic: the life after the war for the soldier. This alienation with his hometown, his family and all of those values, that has been his former set of values. The soldier's mistrust to his surroundings, his powerlessness to get over these things he had experienced in the war. Hemmingway's intentions with the text could be to tell the reader that soldiers are not courageous people, who fight in the war with patriotism in the heart, but they are human with feelings like everybody else.

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No. 2: Themes

One of the themes of Soldier’s home is the consequence of WW1. When Krebs comes back home he has definitely changed. “He did not want any consequences. He did not want any consequences ever again. He wanted to live along without consequences”. Before he left he believed in God, until he saw the terrible things that happened during the war. The things he experienced during the war are the reasons why he is the way he is now. His relationship with his family used to be better, his sister even used to brag about him at school. Now he has lost faith and is emotionally detached to his family. He doesn’t fit into society anymore, since he doesn’t try to fit in by doing the things that are acceptable, like getting married or having a job. He spends his time in bed or on the porch reading or watching girls walk by. Which shows us he kind of has given up on life.

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Some of the themes in the short story "soldiars home" are the effects of war. We see this as Krebs becomes emotionally numb and has a hard time expressing himself. He seems to have forgotten how to "feel" as he even says, that he doesn't really love his mother. The post traumatic stress from the war resulted in him being a changed person, where he is stuck in the same routine and doesn't even seem to care that he lives in an endless circle of going to the library, reading and going to bed

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2. consider the themes of the story - Regitze

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2. consider the themes of the story - Regitze

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One of the themes in the story could be transformation, because of the changes Krebs has gone through during/since the war. In the following quotation we can sense how Krebs was before the war when his little sister says: "I can pitch better than lots of the boys. I tell them all you taught me" This quotation shows us, that Krebs was more outgoing and loving before, he'd probably spent a lot of time with his little sister before, but now he is too damaged and too tired to do anything at all. Another theme could be consequences for the returned soldier. Clearly Krebs is changed and he is having a hard time creating and returning to his old life, both because of what he has experienced in the war, but also because he has no one to talk to about his experiences and troubles.