FLAGS OF OUR FATHER

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
“ FLAGS OF OUR FATHER “

A. CHARACTER
a. Main Characters :
- John ‘Doc’ Bradley
- Ira Hayes
- Rene Gagnon
b. Additional Character
- Ralph ‘Iggy’ Ignatowsky
- Mike Strank
- Henry ‘Hank’ Hansken
- Harlon Block
- Keyes
- Belle (Hank’s Mother)
- Doc’s Son
- Ministry of Finance
- Harlon’s Mother

B. CHARCTERIZATION
- John ‘Doc’ Bradley : helpful, kind, honest, patriotic,
dicipline,solidary, patient
- Ira Hayes : Indian man, silent, very solidary patriotic, honest, emotional
- Rene Gagnon : snob, bossy, wanted popularity only, not solidary
- Doc’s Son : obey, love his father
- Ralph ‘Iggy’ Ignatowsky : Doc’s best friend, solidary,
- Mike Strank : best soldier according to Ira
C. CONFLICT

- Beginning
Someday, Mr. Bradley (Doc), was ill and called someone’s name. It made his son wanted to know who was him and who was the person he called was.
War in Iwo Jima make a tight relationship between soldiers. At first, they were glad to go battling, before they knew how was the real battle. All of they are full of spirit. They believe that they would win the war.
Before went to Iwo Jima, Captain explain all of the srategy, and said that there would not anyone be left in the battle. But on the way to Iwo Jima, there was a soldier who fell from the ship, ship didn’t stop and he left away. Doc and friends start worried and realized that this was the begining of the war. If they cannot keep their soul, no one would keep their life, because everyone kept their own soul. They also realized that only close relationship feeling that could save their life from cruelty of war. That’s why their relationship have to be closer and closer. A night before war, they support theirselves by praying, singing, etc.
At the war, they were battling courageously although many soldiers dead by shots, mortirs, etc.

- Peak
One day in Iwo Jima, US army plant the flag in Suribachi mount. After that, the flag changed by another group instructed by the Captain, and two person else took picture of that moment. The picture spread out in America. People think that US won the war in Iwo Jima, and soldiers in the picture was heroes. 3 soldiers; Doc, Ira, Rene, were sent back to America to campaign and all people welcome them as heroes. For Rene it was interesting, but different with Ira and Doc. Ira always remember their friend who have died. He felt sad when he remembered all of them and imagine that all of them were with him and Doc. Ira could not bear his sadness and often make problem with police. He also hate Rene very much because Rene has never been battling in that war. But Rene always act like have battled, speech confidently, and popularity came to him. It was not fair for the real soldiers like Iggy, Mike, Hank, Harlon, and others who died in Iwo Jima.

- Ending
War had ended. Finally, Ira returned home and spend his life with Pimanese. While Doc, Rene, and Keyes spend the tour. Doc, Ira, and Rene try to life normally like other people. They avoided to interview by press. Doc lived with their big family, worked by managed a bussiness in sorrow house. Ira lived poorly, even jailed, worked as farmer, and died tragically in his farm. And Rene lived happily with his beautiful wife, even worked in factory and cleaning service. And finally, Doc died in hospital.

D. POINT OF VIEW
Being soldier is not easy to do, actually. It needs braviour, solidarity, and patriotism. If I were Doc, I will do what Doc do also. Nurse my injured friends, battling with all of my spirit for my country. But I will tell the truth, the real story about that photograph. Although it will be ashamed, but it will be better, because we do not have to lie people. The real hero will be known, and we do not have to act like a hero but actually we are not. Just like wear someone else name. We reach popularity, but it should not be our own.
Rene Gagnon, was a bad soldier according to me. he became a soldier because he like the uniform and popularity. His words and his braviour was not same. He just could said something that he could not do actually. He also ever gossip about Doc to others. He said something which can harmed his friends, or made his friend suffer, without any guilty to do that. He did everything to made his life happy, whatever that was. He had no solidarity to his friends. He was selfish guy. He was not a good sample for us.
At ceremony planting the flag at that night, actually, I agree with Ira, but I think it is too rude. He was not able to bear his sadness if he remembered them. Actually Doc was the same, but it have to do. If we are disagree about instruction that instructed to us, we have to make our oppinion can be received well by everyone by a true way, or share it with someone. But as soldier, we have to be proffessional. I think Ira did not have that. He have to separate between task and private feeling, do not mix it together.
The secret of the picture do not have to hide all the time. Yes, maybe it used to sell portion, but it make many people desperate. They are Hank’s and Harlon's family. So far it hidden, if it is known by people someday, it will make a new problem.
It was very hard to be a soldier. It needs spirit, much energies, braveries, and sincerity to leave family. Actually I’m proud of soldiers, who can bear all of desperating feelings. But this film was so touchy according to me. In war, to die is very easy and we will not know when it will come. We can imagine that it’s so painful to feel the bullet in their body, injured by simple tools like scissor and there was not modern tools to care it.
About the way of battling, I think it was good enough. Their dicipline, and solidarity between them was very close and it should be a good sample for us. The srategy also better than Japanese.




E. MORAL VALUE
This about patriotism. As a good citizen, all of my life is for our country, more over as soldier in battle zone. No give up to the enemy, it’s better to die. The real soldier never raise the white flag. They will battling until die. Patriotism must be planted in our soul since we are child. So, when we are adult, our love for our country will bigger and bigger.
Being hero is not hoping any reward. We do it because we need to do that. Hero do not hope popularity, money, or praise.
Cooperative between one to another in war is very important. Without it, it will be difficult to reach victory. Like what was happened in this film, between Doc, Ira, Mike, Iggy, Hank, Harlon, and others is very close just like family. It was a good sample for us.
To perform task, it need totality and proffessionality. Although we was sad, but we must forget it during perform the task. The task will not done well or even fail if we do not do it professionally.
The way of respect heroes is to respect their family, and remembering their name and their good turn everytime along our lifetime. Not only when they are exist and popular, but also when they are not exist anymore, forever.
Being parent or family of the soldier need sincerity. They have to support their son’s aspiration. Sometimes there are some parents who do not agree with their son’s aspiration , and they do not allowed them to go battling. It will make their son desperate and live unhappily. Maybe it is very hard to sincere their son being a soldier, but maybe their permittion will make their son be a tough soldier. Death and life has managed by God. We do not know God’s plan for our life. It depends on fortune and our struggle also. So, we do not forget to always pray everytime and when starting work.



F. SUMMARY
Mr. John ‘Doc’ Bradley, have a bad dream about war in Iwo Jima at a night. His son, who have saved him, wanted to know about who Mr. Bradley was, and how the war was. He asked a friend of Mr. Bradley who knew the war. It wa Mr Keyes, Mr. Bradley’s sersan, and one of Mr. Bradley’s friend.
It started in December 1944, in Camp Tarawa, Japan. US soldiers would attack Iwo Jima island. They were full of spirit to wage war. It was a pride to them to become a soldier. Actually, they were frightened to do it, but they made theirself brave and forget all of that fearness by listening to the music, praying, and so on. The Captain also gave advices, strategies, and promises before go to Iwo Jima island. Soldier did not allowed to wave white flag if they are frightened except instructed by their top leader.
They went to Iwo Jima by war-ship and would attack Suribachi mount, a part of Iwo Jima island. In the way to went there, a soldier fell from the ship and swam in the sea. The others wanted to help him but the ship did not stop to wait him. Other soldiers become realize that the Leader their promise to not left anyone at every condition. At that time they have to prepare theirself for the real war.
Bomber war started bomb the island, and when the island looked clear from the enemy, soldier run down to attack. They were start walking to check the island, but suddenly there were shoots from caves that hidden underground. The enemy hide there, but it difficult to find it to shoots. Bombs come from holes and many soldiers died. The war was not as easy as they imagine before. It was very dangerous and they have to careful for everything. Bomb can fall to place where they standing and shoots came from everywhere.
In the camp, Rene Gagnon (Rene) said to Ira Hayes that Ira plant the flag in Iwo Jima also. But Ira did not like to be published that he was on the picture planting the flag. He wanted to stay at Iwo Jima with his unit. Picture of planting the flag in Iwo Jima had published in America. People thought that US army had won the war, but actually it was not. After the picture published, a half of soldiers in that picture died. It just a picture which was taken at break time. Soldiers who was exist in that picture was sent back to America. It was Rene willing to be sent back home. Doc, Ira, and Rene welcomed as heroes. People did not know that the picture was taken in fifth day in war, there was 35 days left. And there was a controverse about Hank or Harlon who was exist in that picture. The picture was used to campaign and sent the portion to American citizen. That portion was used to pay the war needs. Ministry of Finance did not care about the real story about it. He just wanted to get much portion from it.
Actually Ira did not wanted to be there. He wanted Hank, Mike, Franklin, and others be there, not him. He thought that it was not fair. More over for Rene who never battling, but he always made problem with his words and they often fighting.
After welcomed by Ministries, Precident, and all of people, they live normally. Although sometimes still searched by press, but they avoid them. Ira lived poorly. Being hero just after he arrived but so far his life was not like a hero. After sent back home, he often did criminality, desperated, drunk, and even jailed. Doc married and lived happily. And so were Rene and his wife. Ira died in his farm, suspected to be overheated, but not otopted.
That’s all the story from Doc’s friend and his ex sersan to Doc’s son. After apologized to his son and tell a little about the war, Doc’s blew his last breath in the hospital, and remenbered when he swam at the beach after war.

KINDS OF POETRY

KINDS OF POETRY

There are four kinds of poetry, they are:
1. Narrative Poems
 Narrative poem is a poem whose details are organized chronologically has a narrative progression.
Such a poem tells a story and it may have some of the features of a story. In other words, it may have a rising action in which a conflict develops, a climax in which the conflict takes a turn, and a falling action in which the conflict reaches a conclusion.
 The most obvious examples of narrative progression occur in folk or popular ballads.
 Ballad Poem is a poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain.
A ballad is often about love and often sung. A ballad is a story in poetic form. A collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, were collected by Francis James Child in the late 19th century - an example is shown below.

Example of Ballad Poems:
The Mermaid
by
Unknown author
Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below.
2. Expository Poems
 Expository poem is any arrangement by means of which a poet exposes his ideas and feelings.
 One kind of expository progression is a movement from ignorance at the beginning of the poem to knowledge at the end. If a poem expresses a feeling, that feeling will be less vague at the end; if it describes a scene, the scene will be more vivid in the reader’s mind.
 The most obvious examples of expository progression occur in Lyric, Ode and Elegy.
 Lyric poem is a poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet.
Example of Lyric Poetry:
Dying
(aka I heard a fly buzz when I died)
by
Emily Dickinson
I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.
 Ode poem is a lengthy lyric poem typically of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanza structure.
Example of an Ode:

Ode To A Nightingale
by
John Keats
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
 Elegy poem is a sad and thoughtful poem about the death of an individual.
Example of Elegy:
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
by
Thomas Gray
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

3. Descriptive Poems
 Descriptive poem is a poem presented in an arrangement of pictorial details or images.
 In such poems that poet presents as accurately as possible the impressions received through the senses.
 Example of descriptive poem


Oscar Wilde
SYMPHONY IN YELLOW
An omnibus across the bridge
Crawls like a yellow butterfly,
And, here and there, a passer-by
Shows like a little restless midge.

Big barges full of yellow hay
Are moved against the shadowy wharf,
And, like a yellow silken scarf,
The thick fog hangs along the quay.

The yellow leaves begin to fade
And further from the Temple elms,
And at my feet the pale green Thames
Lies like a rod of rippled jade.


4. Argumentative Poems
 Argumentative poem is when a poet presents a proposition and then gives reasons to defend it.
 The most obvious examples of argumentative progression occur in sonnet.
 Sonnet poem are:
English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet.
Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnets are divided into two quatrains and a six-line sestet.

Example of Sonnets:
O thou my lovely boy
by
William Shakespeare
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle glass his fickle hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self grow'st.

the saltwater room - owl city

opened my eyes last night and saw you in the low light
Walking down by the bay, on the shore,
Staring up at the planes that aren’t there anymore
I was feeling the night grow old and you were looking so cold
Like an introvert,
I drew my over shirt, around my arms and began to shiver violently
Before you happened to look and see the tunnels all around me
Running into the dark, underground
All the subways around create a great sound
To my motion fatigue, farewell
With your ear to a seashell
You can hear the waves in underwater caves
As if you actually were inside a saltwater room
Chorus:
Girl: (Time together is just never quite enough)
Boy: When you and I are alone, I’ve never felt so at home
Girl: (What will it take to make or break this hint of love?)
Both: We need time, only time
Girl: (When we’re apart whatever are you thinking of?)
Boy: If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone
Girl: (So tell me darling do you wish we’d fall in love?)
Both: All the time, all the time.
Can you believe that the crew has gone, and wouldn’t let me sign on?
All my islands have sunk in the deep,
So I can hardly relax or even oversleep
I feel as if I were home, some nights, when we count all the ship lights
I guess I’ll never know why sparrows love the snow
We’ll turn off all of the lights and set this ballroom aglow
(So tell me darling do you wish we’d fall in love)
(All the time)
Chorus:
Girl: (Time together is just never quite enough)
Boy: When you and I are alone, I’ve never felt so at home
Girl: (What will it take to make or break this hint of love?)
Both: We need time, only time
Girl: (When we’re apart whatever are you thinking of?)
Boy: If this is what I call home, why does it feel so alone?
Girl: (So tell me darling, do you wish we’d fall in love?)
Both: All the time, all the time
Girl: (Time together is just never quite enough)
(When we’re apart whatever are you thinking of?)
(What will it take to make or break this hint of love?)
(So tell me darling do you wish we’d fall in love)
(All the time)

the red badges of courage

INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES ASSIGNMENT
NAME : SONTA JAYANTI N.
NIM : 2201409005

1. Main character
- Henry Fleming
- Tim Wilson
- Jim Conklin
- Bill Porter
- The General

2. Characteristic
Henry Fleming : frightened, pessimistic,courageus
Tim Wilson : symphatetic, intelligent, courageus, pessimistic
Jim Conklin : adult, frightened, innocent
Bill porter : arrogant, grumper
The general : friendly

3. Conflict
- The Beginning : Henry fleming was frightened boy at first,when he knew that the troops will attack the enemy. Henry didn’t confidence that his troop would win the war. He ran out from the battlefield. But finally he realized, he was regret about his fault,left his troops.
- The Peak : Henry came back to his camp, his spirit raised, become courageus and go aheadto attack the enemy in the battlefield.
- The Resolution : Henry’s troop won the war, and after that he told the truth to Wilson about his ran out from battlefield.


4. Moral value
- Although we fear about something, it’s better to change our mind. We have to be confidence and adventurous.
- We will never feel the glory if we do not try to get it first. Frighten is normal and everyone feel it.
- To be soldier, we have to be professional and keep our promise we have said to our country. As a good society, it is our obligation to struggle our country from any rebellion.
- Running out from a problem is not a best way to solve it. All we have to do is just have to pass it and struggle with all of our mindly and physically power.
- Passing problem is a learning of being adult. Harder problem we passed, more adult we are. It needs patience. If we can passed it easily, we will feel the great glory and being wise.

letter to a character in Sweet Potato Pie

Name : Sonta Jayanti N.
NIM : 2201409005
Tuesday, 211-212
Dear Buddy,
I’m very proud of you hearing you are becoming an educated and success one. You have proved to your family, especially your parents, that you can reach the maximal prestice from what your family have given to you. You know that your family struggled so hard to took care of you, your brothers, and your sisters. I’m sure, they are happy knowing how you are right know.
However, Buddy, family is more important than anything in this world, isn’t it? Do not make anything more important than them, like the sweet potato pie. You know that your brother, Charley, loves you so much. He always thinks of you and your prestige athough you are adult. Please do not make him dissapointed to your attitude, Buddy, just because a little thing like the sweet potato pie. Your brother means a lot in your life and you’ll never get anything like him in over the world along your life time. On the other hand, you can find sweet potato pies everywhere and everytime you want and they do not mean anything in your life.
Lovely Buddy, keep shining in your career. You are your family pride. Their support will always accompany you in everything you do and everywhere you go. You are God’s choice to make them happy. Always remember them as they remember you, Buddy.


Love,
Aunt Sonta

descriptive, narative and expository paragraph

Name : Sonta Jayanti Nugraheni
NIM : 2201409005
Rombel : Thursday, 1 pm

A. Descriptive Paragraph
An Amazing Woman
My mother is an amazing woman. She has many good attitudes which make me always admire her. She always shows her resoluteness when she had problems and she never gives up. She is also very kind person. My friends said that they always feel comfort to talk with my mother when they are visiting my house. She is friendly to everyone. She is always smiling and speaking politely to me and to everyone. That is why her beauty still appears although she is 51 years old now. My mother is a sympathetic elementary school teachers too. She have been teaching for almost 25 years. She often shares her students activities or their condition with me in order to be able to help them in studying. My mother also teaches them good attitudes because she wants to build her students’ good personality. I am proud of being child of my mother, the only women whom I admire the most.





B. Narative Paragraph
Going Home
Yesterday was the day when I struggled to come back home to meet my mother whom I missed so much. After I attended the final test of Suprasegmental-based English Phonetic, I downloaded some file which was I need to do my statistic assignment for about half an hour. After I finished it, I came back to my boarding house to take my stuff and planned to go home by public transportations. Fortunately, one of my friends was going to go to campus and asked me to go together by motorcycle. She picked me up to the bus stop near Karyadi Hospital. I thanked to her and got on a mini bus. When I arrived to the bus station, the Surabaya-Semarang bus was not available yet because of the traffic jam. I had been waited for about half an hour and then the bus came. I got on it and took the front seat behind the driver. Along the way starting from Kudus, there was a heavy traffic jam so the bus could not run fast. I was so bored and heated in that full bus. I could not sit comfortly. Beside that, I have to look after my laptop and my stuff which were so heavy. After passing the traffic jam for an hour, the bus run fastly and I finally got off at Kartini Park, Rembang. My tiredness was gone at that moment knowing my mother had already been there waiting for my arrival. I was so happy to meet her and then we went home together.



C. Expository Paragraph
Being A Good Mother
There are four requirements to be a good mother. The first one is setting a good examples for your child. Mother is the nearest person from the children, so the first example for children are their mothers. Mother should do good things before asking their children to do the same. It is hard to imagine the children have good appearance without their mothers’ instructions and real samples. The second requirement is always being there for the child. By doing this, there will be a good relationship between the mother and the child. Always give love and patience for your children as the third requirement. Watch them grow and support their activities. The last one, you should be a good listener. Set your relationship with your children as a deep friendship when it is needed. For example when your children had a problem with their friend, ask them to share with. Listen and give a good solutions for their problem, and don’t forget keep them comfort with you. Show your good motherhood by doing these requirements.

ELEMENTARY READING COMPREHESION ASSIGMENT

ELEMENTARY READING COMPREHESION ASSIGMENT
NAME : Sonta Jayanti Nugraheni
NIM : 2201409005
16:30-18:00

A. EXERCISE 8
1. What is the relationship between Joyce and Adam? Does the tittle of the story help you to infer this? Why?
A couple of darling that will be married.
Yes,it does.
I think of their love is too big so that anything can’t break it apart except a death.
2. Where are they?
At Adam’s house.
3. What can you tell about Joyce’s past?
I think Joyce has amnesia,but at the past she has already known Adam.
4. Which character do you think expreses the way the author feel?
Joyce’s character.
5. What do you think will happen after this in the story?
Joyce will get married with Adam and they will life happily ever after.
B. EXERCISE 9
1. What are the relationship among the four children in the story?
Martin is a father and has some children. Emily,is martin’s wife.
2. Where are they?
At their home.
3. What has happened just before this passage?
The children was playing in the living room before Martin came.
4. Which character do you think expresses the way the author feels?
Martin’s character do.
5. What do you think will happen after this in the story?
Emily try to suicide.