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reader feel as if he or she is sitting in some small caf? and OBrien is telling you his personal recollection of his time in Vietn...
demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...
for constant friendship and status both in the group and in the school. The group gives each member protection from being alone an...
he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...
as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
drinking, and want to get more for it" (Sinclair Chapter 2). In this the image of Jurgis is one that evokes thoughts of morality...
checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...
alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...
crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories and then abandon them before reaching a conclusion, on...
watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...
In five pages this paper examines how emotions are portrayed in the contemporary literary works The Things They Carried by Tim O'B...
In five pages this paper discusses how the author is able to blur reality and fiction through his unique novel structure in The Th...
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
totally true (p. 89). The sole criteria that OBrien supports for telling a "true" war story is this: "It comes down to gut instin...
In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...
with a wretched climate where theyre always hot and miserable, where they cant tell friend from foe, and where half their battles ...
attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...
the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...
book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...
in Vietnam. As the war fades further into the past, its important that authors like OBrien continue to remind Americans of the dif...
with those people. Id be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to i...
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
This five page report analyzes the structure utilized by Tim O'Brien. The contention is presented that this utilization effectiv...
rather jumbled form in both of these novels proves to be the perfect medium for reflecting the chaotic psychological landscape of ...
In six pages this paper considers classical and contemporary examples of war literature. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliog...
without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...