Maria Gagliano
Adam Weinstein
En 101
29 October 2007
War in Iraq is three simple words, but when put together they become words strong enough to deliver chills through one’s body and make someone quiver with anger or sadness. The war is not an easy subject to express feelings on, but it is something that will impact the lives of many forever, especially those fighting for their country. The life of a soldier is tough; they have to be away from home, their family, and everything they know and love while they fight to keep their lives as well as defend for their nation. Many families lose their own hero at war, while some families cannot even comprehend a loose such as that. I am one of those families, I have not had to experience a family member leaving for war, and I would rather not have to feel that pain. Since I have not had to experience that side of the war, the song “4th25 Live from Iraq” helped to show and teach me the hard life of infantry and dying soldiers in over in Iraq.
The song “4th25”depicts the war through the eyes of a soldier who is over in Iraq fighting for his own life’s safety as well as his nation’s safety. The very first verse of the song,
“Every days like a gamble here, this is no joke, this is live from Iraq, where we’re prayin we make it home,”
tells everyone that soldiers do not always make it out alive and that war is not just a game that one can opt out of; war is the real deal where people lose lives for who and what they love. A day in a soldier’s life is long, hard and scary where every second they must constantly take cover. The soldier in “4th25” wants people to listen to this song and understand what is going on in the world, in Iraq, and mainly in a soldier’s life. This song is for people who do not get it and just do not understand life in Iraq.
The soldier in this song wants nothing more than to speak the truth about the war and life in Iraq to those who need to hear it the most. He wants the people that just do not understand the hardships of a soldier to learn through what he has to say. The soldier knows life, for anyone, is not easy, but he wants people to see through his eyes how much harder it could be by painting the picture of the war and what he feels. The verse
“True gutter for you fuckers, think its gutter where you from, here is life by the second, this is everything wrong,”
helps to show how tough life can get. The soldier defines war in the verse when he says,
“The true definition of goin hard, no games, this is hundreds of bodies, in the streets when we bang.”
This shows that other soldiers and people will not make it out alive; people are dying everyday, and he is forced to keep on with his duty of serving and protecting and putting his own life on the line for his country.
“This is nothing yall been thru, yall aint seen shit, and this is not what’s on the news, what really happens ain’t printed,”
shows just how gory the war is; the soldier is saying that the war is so bad right now that the average American might not even be able to handle seeing it. The whole chorus in itself depicts the war through a soldier’s eye perfectly. He says that for their country, soldiers gamble their lives daily. He states that the war is the “Blood of soldiers of which the streets are now paved.”
“But we don’t fold hands, the cards we are dealt get played,”
says that there is no time to stop fighting, they have to keep on no matter what happens or who they lose. War is not a game that you can just fold your cards and give up whenever you want.
The soldier also argues the fact that they are all just over there fighting, and that is all that they are doing. He says that all the soldiers are,
“playing with no type of goals.”
He wants those goals to be set so he has something to look forward to. He wants to be fighting for a set reason. The soldier also says,
“Sure its politics back home, here its bullets thru our tissue.”
People are fighting because they are told and trained to do so, but they are dying as they go on. While people are here, back in the United States, arguing and talking things out, soldiers are literally losing their life. The soldier wants the war to hurry up and be over.
The artist successfully gets the point across that through the eyes of a soldier, war is not good and definitely unwanted. Through the soldier, the artist allows one to see and feel how terrible and how much more there is to war when you are actually the one over there fighting. The artist of “4th25 does a great job of putting you in a soldier’s shoes as he presents the truth behind the fighting. This song helps those who did not understand how scary and deathly the war really is, and how people are losing their lives as they fight for us, our country. The only negative aspect of this song is that the tone of soldier sounds very unhappy, and that he feels obligated to be there fighting. He does not want to be over in Iraq, and the only reason he is, is because he knows that someone has o do it. Although this tone is portrayed, this song still expands the knowledge of the war in Iraq to those who needed it most.
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Kendall Lewis
I think you did a really good job on your essay. You really did a good job using the song lyrics to express what you were trying to get across to the reader. As I read your paper I was able to realize the hardships that the soldiers are facing overseas as they are fighting. I also liked the fact that you were very descriptive. I was able to really get a feel for the soldiers and the battles that they were facing everyday as there are fighting for their country. I also really liked your introduction paragraph. You did a really good job introducing the song to the reader and explaining how the song helped you realize the hardships that soldiers have to face every day.
One thing I think you could improve on is at the end of the paper when you talk about the writers tone. I think you could emphasize on this a little bit more so the reader can truly get a feel for the writer and their intentions of their song. I believe the negative aspect coming from the soldier means a lot to the reader because it shows that they are not necessarily fighting because they want to but, fighting for the freedom of their country.
I think you did a very good job on this essay. You did a good job analyzing the song lyrics and including them into your paper. I liked your introduction and how you added the part about how war in iraq is only three words but when you add them together you get chills. That sentence, along with the rest of the introduction showed how much the soldiers have to go through every day.
There are a few spots where you left out a letter in a word, so make sure that you read through your paper and fix them. In the last paragraph,you talk about the point the artist wanted to get across and the negative aspect of the song. I think it would be nice if you expanded on that and told more about why there is that negative aspect.
I really like this paper. Like you I think war is such a tough thing and I hate to think about what the soldiers are going through. I liked how you analyzed the song lyrics. You were able to interpret them well. One thing you need to do is go back and re-read this to fix any grammar errors. One thing I noticed was that I think you meant to say loss instead of loose “Many families lose their own hero at war, while some families cannot even comprehend a loose such as that.” But I do this all the time and I think it is a common mistake. Also I think some of the sentences are a little choppy. I think maybe they could be fixed so they flow a little bit better.
This was a great paper. It really showed me what and how the men and
women go through every day while fighting over seas for our country.
Your opening paragraph was very strong. It captures the reader to keep on reading this paper. For your thesis, I would say, “Helped to show and tech the United States the hard life of infantry and dying soldiers over in Iraq.” This would sound better because you really do not talk about yourself in the paper. You mostly talk about how the song shows other people in the country.
In a few paragraphs, you are repetitive about how people do not
understand life in Iraq. There could be a little more detail. You could add more input about ethos, logos, and pathos in your paper. This might make it clearer about what parts of the songs do what to the listener. Also, you could right about the persona more. The conclusion paragraph has two different ideas. You could split them into two different paragraphs. I would make the negative aspect idea to be one
paragraph. Then you can end it strongly with how the artist did such a good job in showing people what the war is really like.
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