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1. Cross feels that Lavender is killed because Cross himself was too busy daydreaming about Martha that he was unable to protect his men. Since Cross’s mind was in a distant place, he was unable to lead his team efficiently. Cross believes that if his mind was focused on the war he would have been able to protect Lavender.…
In this book the author Tim O' Brien uses many different little stories to sum of the big picture of war. He focuses in on many different characters, stories, and their specific feelings to help the reader get an actual feel of what he felt. Which he states on pg. 171 " I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer than happening-truth". While O' Briens main connection to the title focus's in on what each soldier physically carried, deeper than that is the soldiers own feelings, doubts, and fears.…
Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a very uniquely written book. This book is comprised of countless stories that, though are out of order, intertwine and capture the reader’s attention through the end of the novel. This book, which is more a collection of short stories rather than one story that has a beginning and an end, uses a format that will keep the reader coming back for more.…
In the chapter Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong in the fictional novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, Mary Anne Bell is a prime example of a dynamic character. Mary Anne was an attractive girl, seventeen years old, from Cleveland Heights Senior High. She had a bubbly and girly personality. Her boyfriend, Mark Fossie, got the idea to fly his girlfriend out to his assigned medical outpost in Vietnam. The outpost was near the village of Tra Bong, up in the mountains west of Chu Lai. It was a fun place to be during the war because you only had to tend to the victims and after that you can do as you wish. The outpost has also a base of operations for a squad of six Green Berets aka Greenies. This would all seem like a safe place to protect an innocent girl from war but one way or another you get a taste of it just as Mary Anne did. War has a way of changing people.…
The Things they Carried by Tim O’brien is a series of war stories that lean on the male perspective. If and when a woman appeared in the story, O’brien would idealize them as use for the soldiers when they came home with open arms and in hope for more. Women were used as a metaphor of innocents that the soldiers have to release to help for all the memories and horrors of the war. The innocents and fantasies of the book from the soldiers perspectives were used to either discriminate the women, or have them be treated like objects. Clearly, the men thought that they could overpower them during this generation as the women could not stand up for themselves or scared to do anything about it creating the gender roles in this book.…
Her independence is important, being the only woman in the book not controlled by men. ‘She was a golf champion and everyone knew her name’. This suggests she’s famous in her own right in…
The challenging and complicated lives of women in the 1930s are explored in the novel, The Group, by Mary McCarthy as 8 Vassar students struggle through their first 7 years of adulthood after college graduation. Through the lives of these women, the readers experience firsthand the political, social, and economic discrimination women went through in the early twentieth century. The group of friends grow apart as the years go by, but a funeral for one of their own ends the book with the remaining 7 together again. The Group is a story about friendship, overcoming gender barriers, and healthy and unhealthy relationships, using different characters' perspectives throughout the book in order to give the reader a complex and full understanding of each storyline and character arc.…
In the book Sophia’s War by Avi, this book was about a young girl named Sophia who stood up to be a spy and was able to get things done, even by herself. In the article, “ Meet the Women of the American Revolution” by Amanda Coletta, is about different women who had impacted society, by doing different duties, to be recognized, not to be insignificant, but to be heroes in the American Revolution and to show that women are just as capable as men. These women share similar characteristics like Sophia. The women who share the same characteristics like Sophia and who have made a huge impact on society, are, Anna Strong, Sybil Ludington, and Emily Geiger, the women who changed History.…
I believe that the author did an outstanding job of presenting the information in this book. Many authors would have tried to intertwine these women’s stories in order to make the story more interesting as a whole. Instead she sets aside a chapter to different groups she wants to go into detail discussing. For instance, she doesn’t try to compare and contrast the women who were on the home front to the women who followed the armies. Instead, she helps you realize the importance of both by devoting…
During the Revolutionary War in USA women were seen as aides in the man’s struggles. They did man works, and helped them out in the war. After the war in 1783 the women in middle class were seen as the Republican Mother, they were seen as the role models for their children to teach them about democracy. Since they helped their country men winning the war. However, soon this role would demolish a little bit, as the women went back to caring for their children.…
Role in Novel: Ma keeps the family together in the toughest moments not letting them split up.…
Throughout the book, Freidl gives many examples of hardships and triumphant times for women. Obviously everyone in life has many hardships but these women go through so much more. Friedl lets you hear the woman's voice not just her own observations. She shows how women can be strong, but also women who are struggling. Each chapter focuses on a different woman in the village. Blood, marriage, or both relate most of the women so the stories intertwine. The women…
The novel, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History, by Laurel Ulrich is about women who never intended to make history but did in different ways. History is usually always revolved around men, and not many mention about the women who have helped in creating history. Through the early modern era women showed progress in making the United States a better place. With writers and activists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Christine de Pizan and Virginia Woolf, the contributions from these individuals they influenced others with bettering our country with different movements that have changed the view of what we see today and what we could have seen if these women did not take any action.…
Characters: Rick//Richard- The main “protagonist”, although there is not an antagonist, is Richard. He is a short, middle-aged man who has recently opened a formal suit wear rental business in Utah after attending business school. His background is a combination of being born in Utah and being raised in Salt Lake Valley. His face was long, and narrow with straight, but tousled brown hair Richard’s character grows throughout the novel, behaviorally, not physically of course.…
It reveals to the reader the unfair expectations that women must achieve. No woman is actually born to be innocent, quite, selfless, frail, nurturing, and submissive all at the same time. Women possess the same dominant characteristics of strength and intelligence as men. However, women must cover up these attributes with a mask of “womanhood” in order to be accepted and successful. Jane is not the only woman wearing a…