YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien and a Symbolic Motif Analysis
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Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...
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...
with those people. Id be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to i...
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...
of whom he believes himself to be, as well as his psychological coping mechanisms in surviving the war. Cross, by choosing to ca...
the slave mentality without thought it seems. As she develops in the book she comes to realize that it is very frightening how ...
rather jumbled form in both of these novels proves to be the perfect medium for reflecting the chaotic psychological landscape of ...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...
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 ...
to be examined is Jimmy Cross. The narrator indicates that, "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha...