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This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...
In five pages the preface and epilogue of this text are analyzed. There are no other sources listed....
with those people. Id be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to i...
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...
letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...
An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...
a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...
In five pages this paper examines how emotions are portrayed in the contemporary literary works The Things They Carried by Tim O'B...
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 ...
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
from the text. However, the traumatic experiences that torture him do come out, but, they do so slowly, in bits and pieces. Somet...
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...
has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
of whom he believes himself to be, as well as his psychological coping mechanisms in surviving the war. Cross, by choosing to ca...
drinking, and want to get more for it" (Sinclair Chapter 2). In this the image of Jurgis is one that evokes thoughts of morality...
reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...
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...
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...
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...