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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...

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...

to think about such things, yet memories continue to crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories a...

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...

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

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

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

They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...

sense of purpose. An examination of this novel demonstrates that reading this novel would be, in all likelihood, totally demoraliz...

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

without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...

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...

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

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

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

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...

to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...

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...

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

torn apart, and how a part of them is destroyed. As an example, "Cross carried letters from a girl names Martha" (OBrien 1). Oth...

in Vietnam. As the war fades further into the past, its important that authors like OBrien continue to remind Americans of the dif...

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

In five pages this science fiction novel is examined in terms of the relationships between genetically altered aliens and the huma...

power structures and organization are often present in her writing. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe her writing as ...