Armor By: John Steakley

The novel I choose for my independent study is called Armor, and is create verbally by John Steakley. This novel is about the life of a soldier whose name is Felix. Felixs past is mysterious and his future is to the highest pointedness inevitable given his odds for survival in an inter-stellar contend as a scout. The reader is shown the horror, courage and aftermath of flake through Felixs eyes. The two main characters in Armor often survive based on reaction, or their intense home(a) disposition. Their will or step protects them against all odds, which proves: Strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all. Felix wills a fauna into existence within him, an alter ego, which is a manifestation of his spirits acquisition (or will) to survive. Jack Crow shows great inner strength as he refuses to let his spirit be broken when his atomic reactor seems certain. Felixs armor he physically wears is less protective mentally then Felixs mental armor, his alter eg o. In the time of war, umpteen men have been known to break spiritually. When all a person sees, hears, smells and feels is death, this person protrudes to change. This person suffers to break. The reason people begin to change is because everyone feels. No one wants to see people die, oddly when your friends are among the dead.

Felixs spirit creates this alter ego to protect Felix in a way his physical armor cannot. This Engine is a manifestation of his spirit and its strength. Felixs subconscious slowly replaces his intense feelings of loathe and fatalism with a part of Felix that shows no real emot ion. As Felix describes, it is his Engine, ! it deeds when he cannot. It does not feel. What replaced the loathing and fury was something very different, something mothy and distant ¦... If you want to get a full essay, gild it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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