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The Call to Arms
The Call to Arms By Jarrett Taira
Table of Contents
Their Finest Hour ——————————————————————#1
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death———————————————#3
Gettysburg Address —————————————————————#5
Brave Heart ————————————————————————#7
Black Gate —————————————————————————#10
We Shall Fight On the Beaches ————————————————#12
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Their Finest Hour
Excerpt From the Finest Hour: “Never mind. Win or lose, sink or swim,
better die than submit to tyranny- and such a tyranny.” (Winston Churchill)
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Evaluation
Said by Winston Churchill, this quote talks about how he is not going to war for
his country, he is going to war for the reason of what is seen as a calling to arms
to fight a greater tyranny. Almost as if it was a calling from god to fight a
relentless foe that performs atrocities were it goes. In thought, a call from god for
them would be something that must be obeyed. Similar to the order from the
queen to some, the order is demand more than a question. Churchill’s decision
was his effort to go protect the world from a tyranny that had to be stopped.
Ending the axis powers (specifically Hitler) to for fill the call to arms. This
supports the concept of going to war. This supports the main concept in the book,
they have no fear for their own life, and they go to war for a greater purpose to
fight a tyranny they must or face defeat. Similar to what happen in the first
chapter, all of the boys signed up for the military at the age of 19. They didn’t get
in on the draft, nor were they forced, they found a sense of duty to fight for their
country. Both of these support the same idea, going to war for a greater good, to
fight for what is right.
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Give Us Liberty or Give Us Death
Excerpt from Patrick Henry’s Speech on March 23, 1775: “there is no
longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free—if we mean to preserve inviolate
those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending—if we
mean to basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long
engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the
glorious object of our contest shall be obtained—we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we
must fight! A appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!”
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Evaluation
This quote was said by Patrick Henry during the revolutionary war, this talk
about their call to arms to fight for what they believe in. To fight for their rights
and their freedom, the privileges they have desired for so long. In order to get the
rights you want, there was is a need to fight the British. Americans in the war
beloved in what they were doing and felt it is necessary. Patrick henry talks about
how they must fight, similar to the Students in the book all quiet on the western
front, they must fight. In the book they talk about how they are volunteering to
fight in the war. A sense of duty, or even a call to arms by a god like order, the
request to fight in the war in each of these situations supports the concept like the
one in the book, fight for what you believing.
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Gettysburg Address
Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “It is for us the
living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they fought here
has thus far so nobly advanced.”
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Evaluation
This Quote is a famous one, spoken by Abraham Lincoln during civil war
era. There was a large amount of tension going on between the north and the
south. So many had already died for the cause of African American freedom in
the USA and a new problem arises of possible succession from the south. These
factors have dawned upon the American people leading them in one side or
another. But in the myths of all of this, President Abraham Lincoln needs to find
a way to bring the people who believe in the same morals of equal rights together.
He made this speech at Gettysburg in the north to help tie the people together
around the moral call of duty to say that they will fight and counter the tyranny or
a rebellion against the United States. Lincoln was saying that there is a sense of
duty to fight for those that had fallen for their cause. This is similar to what the
book has in which they will fight for a cause that they believe in similar to what
Lincoln has believing he shall fight in. For Lincoln, he was fighting for no
slavery and his country. But in the book, fight their country and to preserve what
is theirs.
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Brave Heart
Excerpt from William Wallace’s Speech in Brave Heart: “…. Our enemies
that may take our lives but they will never take our freedom!”
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Evaluation
This is a quote from the movie brave heart. William Wallace was in front of
the many Scotsman that came to show their dedication to their country. They had
been under foreign oppression. They have been treated wrongfully and had their
rights obscured when under their foreign rulers control. But William Wallace
strikes back and rebels against the foreign rule. Before he starts a defense against
the foreign power, he rallies his men that have come to fight for their freedom. He
gives this famous speech to rally them and entice them to fight on for their
freedom and Scotland. The speech talks to them about fighting for a purpose,
their freedom. This is focus for many fights and wars, for the freedom or rights of
a population. In America we had the war of independence from Britain, now
Scotland has their own to be free of foreign rule and become independent and
free. Similar to what the books message behind the people fighting, people come
together to fight for what they believe is right. That concept is seen everywhere
from the smallest battles to the biggest ones. Here the Scottish come together to
fight for their freedom against the foreign power, but in the book they come
together to fight against the opposing force to protect their country from an
oppressive foe. Both sides fight for a purpose that they feel is Nobel, or right.
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Both are following the same concept of war that can be considered worthy of
admiration and praise.
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Black Gate
Excerpt from Aragorn’s Black Gate Speech in Lord of The Rings ( Return
Of the King): “An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of men
comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you
hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand! Men of the west!”
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Evaluation
This quote is from the lord of the rings, Aragorn’s black gate speech. They
have been standing up to a large and powerful force. They are a small force
in comparison to the massive army that stood before them. But they were
standing fighting for a purpose they saw fit. To preserve the human race and
stop the evil that stood before them. The men were scared for their lives,
entering a battle of one to ten. Aragon gives a speech to for to them to not
back down no matter how bad the situation. He asked for them to stand tall
and rise up to fight to preserve the human race. Similar to the book and the
other quotes, they want to stand tall and not back down to their oppressive
enemy. They are men on a mission, scared, tired, starved, but not backing
down and running away. The young men stand tall and endure the pain of
war. Both the story and the film have shown that war is long and full of pain.
But they both fight for what they know is right and what they believe in. The
concept is universal in all of the wars. In the battle of black gate and in the
battle of the frontlines in the book, both fighting for survival and following
the same concept of war. Fighting for what they believe in is right.
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We Shall Fight On The Beaches
Excerpt from Winston Churchill’s Speech “We shall fight on the Beaches” :
): “That is the resolve of His Majesty's Government-every man of them. That is
the will of Parliament and the nation. The British Empire and the French
Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death
their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their
strength. ….We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on
the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength
in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on
the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and
in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if,
which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were
subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by
the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New
World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of
the old.”
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Evaluation
This quote talks about Churchill’s philosophy and his commitment to
the war. They are in the middle of world war two and they have started
fighting the oppressive axis forces. The French and British must join forces
to fight for the cause of beating the axis power. To defeat the oppressive
force they must rally together and use all of their power to defeat their
enemy. Churchill talks about how there is a need for all of their forces. The
British will never surrender is what and they will fight till the bitter end.
Similar to the book, the concept of going to war, the British volunteer to join
the fight out of pure dedication to fight for a purpose they believe in, a sense
of duty. To defeat the oppressive enemy, the y answers the call to arms to
win their battles. Just as the book explains how the young 19 year olds all
signup to fight the war, Churchill will answer a call to arms to defeat his
enemy and fight for what he believes in is right.
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