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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...

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

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...

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

of 2005 to determine "the most critical technology needs for law enforcement" (International Association of Chiefs of Police, 2005...

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...

Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....

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

is himself a figure that is somewhat alien to the experiences of many Westerners in the sense that he has "earned" three wives thr...

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

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...

issues regarding his position as an adult, presenting us with a serious and introspective perspective: "To them I may have owed a...

of slave states and free states. A compromise was worked out regarding the admission of Missouri to the Union. The Missouri comp...