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The Things They Carried
One of the most interesting aspects of The Things They Carried is the way O’Brien reveals the inner worlds of his characters. How far do you agree? In “The Things They Carried” Tim O’Brien definitively reveals the inner worlds of his characters. That’s just one of the aspects that makes the collection of the stories interesting. The author describes himself as a quiet person who can be easily persuaded and goes through moral dilemmas. Through
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The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien All of the men from Tim O’Brien’s book “The Things They Carried” carried physical items and unresolved emotional baggage. The men held onto the physical items and inside held the feelings to help them cope with and escape from the Vietnam war. However, after the war, they carried memories and scars that reminded them of and brought them back to Vietnam. In the first chapter of the book,
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Tim Obrien Rhetorical Strategies in the Things They Carried
Everyone experiences something that’s effects their life in some way; In the novel The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien uses flashbacks as well as imagery to help the readers understand what he went through and the impact it had on his life. While in The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd uses symbolism and some imagery to let the reader know how the experiences the main character had experienced impacted her life. In The
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Mary Anne of Things They Carried
One of the main themes of the novel is the allure of war. This trope, common in war literature, is made more complex here as O’Brien adds the layers of a Conrad-esque “heart of darkness” fascination in the character of Mary Anne. The seductive allure of war is inextricably linked to the tendencies of human nature in O’Brien’s novel. War, more specifically the act of killing, acts as a catalyst for some individuals, causing them
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The Things They Carried
05/12/08 English 105 The Things They Carried Symbolism is one of the most effective and powerful elements in writing, enabling us to tell a story one way while all along communicating a different, more profound message. In his story "The Things They Carried," Tim O'Brien uses the items soldiers tend to take with them to war to symbolize what the soldiers are actually thinking and feeling. The themes of the story, “The Things They Carried,”
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The Things They Carried - What Weighs More?
What Weighs More? A Demonstrative Essay on “The Things They Carried” By Tim O’Brien In his story "The Things They Carried," Tim O'Brien describes a group of soldiers marching through Vietnam. He does this by describing the items that each of them carries with him during the march. The things that the soldiers carry with them are both physical and emotional items. What they carried varied from man to man. They carry the basic "necessities"
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The Things They Carried
The woman that Cross is in love with is named Martha. She’s barely a junior from Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. Although he is madly in love with her, Martha doesn’t return the feelings back for him. This one-sided love causes him to ponder and lose focus of what is really important, keeping himself and his troops alive and well. As he is lying in his foxhole, he looks at pictures of Martha; he
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The Things They Carried
Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a very uniquely written book. This book is comprised of countless stories that, though are out of order, intertwine and capture the reader’s attention through the end of the novel. This book, which is more a collection of short stories rather than one story that has a beginning and an end, uses a format that will keep the reader coming back for more. Typically, a novel contains four
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The Things They Carried
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED ( The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O’Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. The book is filled with stories about the men of Alpha Company and their lives in Vietnam and afterwards back in the United States. O’Brien captures the reader with graphic descriptions of the war that make one feel as if they
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
The things they carried,by Tim O'brien "Oh man, you fuckin' trashed the fucker. You scrambled his sorry self, look at that, you did, you laid him out like fuckin' Shredded Wheat." I chose to start off my essay with this particular exert from the book because I think that it very much represents the story in itself. Azar said this, after Tim (supposedly) killed a Vietnamese soldier with a hand grenade. It shows that in
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The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried In his story, “The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien describes a group of soldiers marching through Vietnam. O’Brien does this by describing the items that each carries with him during the war. The items in which the soldiers carry with them are both tangible and intangible items, each item depending in a certain character. The soldiers carry the basic ‘provisions’ for survival and that bare minimum essentials for life. But they
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The Things They Carried
In the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien the author tells about his experiences in the Vietnam war by telling various war stories. The quote, "It has been said of war that it is a world where the past has a strong grip on the present, where machines seemed sometimes to have more will power than me, where nice boys (girls) were attracted to them, where bodies ruptured and burned and stand, where
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Violence in "greasy Lake" and "the Things They Carried"
Both Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” and T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “Greasy Lake” display characters’ similar reactions to violence, but in different settings and circumstances. In “The Things They Carried,” Fist Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is a soldier in the Vietnam War who finds solace and escape in fantasies of a young woman from home. One of Cross’s soldiers dies due to his daydreaming and forces him to abandon these fantasies. In “Greasy Lake,” the main
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The Things They Carried
In Tim O’Brian’s “The Things They Carried,” Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’s obsession with Martha causes the death of Ted Lavender, an officer under his charge. The Lieutenant’s mind was constantly distracted from the war by his thoughts of Martha. Jimmy has an obsession with her; he wants to know everything that goes on with her, and even around her. The Lieutenant has deep desires for her, but he pictures her the way her wants her to
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The Things They Carried Report
The Things They Carried Report “The Things They Carried” was a story about soldiers caught in the confusion of the Vietnam War. There are a lot of apparent themes that are dealt with when writing a story about war, especially about death. I enjoyed reading this story; however there were some things about it that I was concerned about. I would like to discuss the author’s style of writing, his meaning of the title “The
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The Things They Carried
Nick Grainger Eng 112 March 16, 2004 The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien was an infantryman in during Vietnam War. He used those experiences to write many short stories including The Things They Carried. The story portrays how, “the things they carried” were weightless in comparison to their feelings of love and loss, fear and shame, and the torturous memories of death. “They all carried emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love,
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The Things They Carried
Tim O’Brien, an author and avid reader, grew up near the borders of Iowa and South Dakota in Worthington, Minnesota, a typical small town in Midwestern America. He was born on October 1, 1946, making Tim a member of the post-World War II baby boomer generation. As a scrappy 18 year old, O’Brien traveled to St. Paul and enrolled at Macalester College. Throughout his years in college, O’Brien came to oppose the war in
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The Things They Carried
“The Things They Carried” Pages 67- 136 Tim O’Brien writes about these stories that happened while he was in Vietnam, he must have been writing these stories down for years then one day put them all together and related the characters and linked the stories and made a book out of it. There is no real direction in this story, it’s not like they are a platoon going to a certain mission and these are
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Essay from Things They Carried- Spin Assignment
Spin Assignment Wrestling; a sport for only the top athletes, contenders if you will. We struggle through the hardest of physical, mental and emotional beatings. I could give every detail of every match I have ever wrestled in, from match score, to the people around me, to what I could have done to make it better. You remember everything about the sport. I remember doing the same thing for four years straight before every match.
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The Things They Carried Essay
Tim O’Brien is the main character in The Things They Carried, and plays the role of narrator and protagonist. Throughout the story, there are very clear examples of every single theme that you mentioned which makes Tim an ideal character to write about. Tim graduated from Macalester college in May of 1968 at the age of 21, and received his official draft notice the next June. Tim had been in a top fraternity and had
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The Things They Carried - Themes
In Tim O’Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried, numerous themes are illustrated by the author. Through the portrayal of a number of characters, Tim O’Brien suggests that to adapt to Vietnam is not always more difficult than to revert back to the lives they once knew. Correspondingly the theme of change is omnipresent throughout the novel, specifically in the depiction of numerous characters. Tim O’Brien is drafted one month after graduating from Macalester College
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Jimmy Cross: The Things They Carried
Rogers 1 Stephanie Rogers Sthapitanonda Comp. 1302 10 March 2004 Jimmy Cross: Life Story There is something special about human beings. Human beings have the capacity to sacrifice themselves for others. Not all do it and many do just the opposite. In the story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’BRIEN, demonstrates that statement. Jimmy Cross, who is 1st lieutenant of his platoon, is a man of integrity and grace which unfortunately starts to
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The Things They Carryed
O'Brien writes one sentence saying ''they were tough'' because of the emotions they carried with them. They all feared of dying but they also feared of dying dishonorably. The soldiers carried things with them that told me about what they may have left behind before they entered the Viet Cong war. The soldiers had to go through crazy attacks and stay alive in the jungle at the same time. They had to watch their
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The Man Killed, the Things They Carried
In the story “The Man Killed” By Tim O’Brien, the narrator stares in silence at the man he has just murdered. He imagines all sorts of things and describes every part of him, from the blood running out of his wounds to his dainty long fingers. He, then starts telling us about his life and visualizes his past, present and future. The narrator envisions this man of My Khe as a scholar, not a fighter;
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The Things They Carried by Tim O’brien
Isaac Conover English 113 The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Tim O’Brien’s short story, The Things They Carried , is a phenomenal story that displays the elements of fiction which conveys the idea of the author. All through the story the author demonstrates the crucial elements of fiction to create a well written story. The author gives readers a beginning, middle, and an end which satisfies the reader’s call for descriptive text. The Things
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