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How the Reader is Positioned in “Cloudstreet”

that trembles and sighs, shakes and stinks. What is a reader supposed to make of all this? First, positioning is the word given t...

Cradle Will Rock

water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...

Harford: “The Undercover Economist”

but sometimes works in unpredictable ways. Harford also uses Starbucks to explain why location is so important in real estate and...

Developing Identity: Gender in the 50s and 60s

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

O’Brien: “If I Die in a Combat Zone”

United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...

What Drives Author Tim O’Brien to Write?

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

Three American Short Stories

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

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

LEADERSHIP QUALITIES OF TIM COSTELLO

be righted. Early Years and Career Costello was born in Melbourne, Australia and was the eldest of three children. From...

The Things They Carried

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

Comparing and Contrasting Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street and The Odyssey by Homer

Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...

The Things They Carried

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

“The Things They Carried” - An Analysis of the Main Themes

with a wretched climate where theyre always hot and miserable, where they cant tell friend from foe, and where half their battles ...

Reality: The Things They Carried

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...

Telling Stories about Vietnam

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...

Tim O’Brien, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq

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...

Realism in O’Brien’s Works

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

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

The Concept and Use of Web 2.0

platform players, which sees the ideas developed from the second layer and move to the first or top layer where they are widely us...

Strength of Love and Tim McLaurin’s Woodrow’s Trumpet

to Southern society but also how the strength of love could unite individuals to meet formidable challenges. His perhaps na?ve an...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and a Symbolic Motif Analysis

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

Reality and Fiction Blurred in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

In five pages this paper discusses how the author is able to blur reality and fiction through his unique novel structure in The Th...

War in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

In six pages this paper considers classical and contemporary examples of war literature. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliog...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and its Historical Accuracy

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

Filmmaker Tim Burton

In seven pages this eccentric and innovative film director is examined in terms of craft, cinematic output, and human insights. Si...

Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods and its Mystery

In five pages this paper discusses how the readers become much like John and Kathy in the novel in terms of becoming lost while tr...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Objects

to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...

Comparative Analysis of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Octavia E. Butler's Kindred

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

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien as Fact or Fiction

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

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

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