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Guests of the Nation
The best way to determine tone in "A Rock Trying to Be a Stone" and "Guests of the Nation" is to examine diction and syntax. For example, in "A Rock," the diction reflects the socioeconomic status...
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Guests of the Nation
"Guests of the Nation" varies between characters because each one represents a different perspective on the war. A major theme in the story is the political division between men and women who come...
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Guests of the Nation
In the story, Bonaparte (the narrator) and his compatriot, Noble, watch over two English prisoners, Hawkins and Belcher. The British soldiers enjoy a good camaraderie with their Irish captors; all...
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Guests of the Nation
Hello! You asked about Belcher and Hawkins in Frank O'Connor's 'Guests of the Nation.' Both are English soldiers held prisoner by a small Irish rebel group during the Irish Rebellion. Since you...
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Guests of the Nation
"Guests Of The Nation" is a short story by Frank O'Connor about three Irish soldiers (Noble, Bonaparte who narrates the story, and Jeremiah Donovan, the officer in charge of the Irish soldiers) who...
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Guests of the Nation
The story is set in early twentieth-century Ireland, during the Irish nationalist uprising against the British occupation. The events take place in an isolated farmhouse where two Englishmen,...
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Guests of the Nation
Although never explicitly stated, the major external conflict in this story is between the British and the Irish. It is set in Ireland in the early part of the twentieth century, during the...
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Guests of the Nation
If you wanted to strike a note of black humor, a theme song could be Europe's "The Final Countdown." I think that it would be more of a sardonic inclusion, but given how there seems to be this...
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Guests of the Nation
One statement O'Cpnnor is making about the connections that human beings have towards one another is that external conditions can quickly supplant these connections. Human beings are shown to be...
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Guests of the Nation
The theme that ends the story is one of moral isolation. Bonaparte, the narrator, is used to thinking of Englishmen as enemies, not as people, and so he feels almost as if his obligation to kill...
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Guests of the Nation
I think that the three characters feature some distinct interests regarding religion. Hawkins' view of religion is a disparaging one. His interest in religion is to question and criticize it for...
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Guests of the Nation
Surprisingly, there is much in way of good will and understanding between both captor and captured. There is not the tension and animosity one would expect in a war setting. Rather, there is a...
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Guests of the Nation
Bonaparte can be considered naive because he truly did like the English soldiers. He is naive because he was not able to see that his mission and his subjective feelings for the captured are two...
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Guests of the Nation
Both the first and last words of the title of Frank O’Connor’s short story “Guests of the Nation” are extremely ironic. O’Connor’s story describes the highly unusual relationship that...
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Guests of the Nation
In Frank O’Connor’s short story “Guests of the Nation,” Bonaparte (the narrator) and Noble are two members of the Irish Republican Army. The IRA has captured two English soldiers, Hawkins...
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Guests of the Nation
In Frank O'Connor's "Guest of the Nation," there are two elements of the story that make me identify them as part of the collective trauma of war. Donovan represents a part of the collective...
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Guests of the Nation
The central idea of O'Connor's work is that "in war, hatred and revenge drive out ethical and moral intelligence.’’ This condition is brought out in the ending. After befriending the British...
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Guests of the Nation
I think that the main point in the situation of O' Connor's story is to illuminate a condition of humanity during war. It is a condition that in which critic Patricia Robinson suggests O'Connor...
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Guests of the Nation
The real “outsider” in “Guests of the Nation” is almost certainly Jeremiah Donovan, the Irish officer who appears in the first paragraph of the story and who then reappears (usually near...
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Guests of the Nation
The setting of "Guests fo the Nation" is critical to the short story, in fact, with a very dissimilar setting, it would be a very dissimilar story: setting and story are inseparable. In Frank...
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Guests of the Nation
This is a popular question to ask because O'Connor has constructed "Guests of the Nation" in episodes that correspond to literary function. The first episode is, of course, the exposition in which...
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Guests of the Nation
Because of its narrative perspective, this is a story that compels our participation. The last paragraph makes it a more powerful and horrifying story under any circumstances but especially at a...
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Guests of the Nation
In Frank O'Connor's short story "Guests of the Nation," the characters make and break bonds based on categories of identity in a number of different ways, including the following: Two of the...
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Guests of the Nation
The narrator, Bonaparte, and Donovan differ in their view of the world. Donovan is more narrow-minded. In common phrases, he sees the world in only black or white. Either something is good or it...
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Guests of the Nation
The symbolism of Bonaparte's name says a great deal about his developmental changes. Like the Bonaparte of O'Connor's story, the real Napolean Bonaparte was the cause of hundreds of senseless...
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Guests of the Nation
There are four tones, each claiming one of the four sections of O'Connor's short story: contentment, disillusion, tension, and regret. Section 1 finds Bonaparte, the Irish Rebel and narrator in a...
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Guests of the Nation
The title of Frank O’Connor’s short story “Guests of the Nation” already implies an important literary technique that will be used throughout the work: the technique of irony. The story is...
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Guests of the Nation
In this story, the conflicts go from very broad social and political conflicts and funnel down to the more specific personal conflicts of the individual characters. In the broad sense, this is a...
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Guests of the Nation
Jeremiah Donovan is the officer in charge of the group of Irish rebels. Unlike Bonaparte and Noble, he does not regard the English prisoners as friendly acquaintances. In this way, you could say...