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rather jumbled form in both of these novels proves to be the perfect medium for reflecting the chaotic psychological landscape of ...

with those people. Id be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to i...

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

the slave mentality without thought it seems. As she develops in the book she comes to realize that it is very frightening how ...

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

In eight pages this paper examines the music and art popular during war times in a consideration of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacc...

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

totally true (p. 89). The sole criteria that OBrien supports for telling a "true" war story is this: "It comes down to gut instin...

Bowker has faced tremendous adversity within his life; having addressed his combat circumstances with a combination of strength an...

him a reason to keep going. Its the illusion that he will come through the war unhurt, return to the States and take up a normal l...

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

to be examined is Jimmy Cross. The narrator indicates that, "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha...

incredibly exaggerated that his stories were immensely entertaining. But, in the case of OBriens novel one must perhaps insist tha...

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...

This paper considers the similar falls of each family in a comparative analysis of these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne and William...

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...

of whom he believes himself to be, as well as his psychological coping mechanisms in surviving the war. Cross, by choosing to ca...

crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories and then abandon them before reaching a conclusion, on...

as happiness is more than the absence of sadness, so is peace infinitely more than the absence of war" (OBrien PG). Even after Be...

Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...

and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...

from the text. However, the traumatic experiences that torture him do come out, but, they do so slowly, in bits and pieces. Somet...

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 report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...

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...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...