Mitchell Sanders telling about six men going crazy. They went crazy in the forest because they been up there for days not talking‚ not talking. Another of the stories he used was about Rat Kiley losing his best friend Curt Lemmon. He tells us how he saw Lemmon die in a surreal way. The more surreal story he uses is what Rat Kiley did to a baby water buffalo after
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“The Vietnam War was arguably the most traumatic experience for the United States in the twentieth century. That is indeed a grim distinction in a span that included two world wars‚ the assassinations of two presidents and the resignation of another‚ the Great Depression‚ the Cold War‚ racial unrest‚ and the drug and crime waves.”(Donald M. Goldstein) Tim O’Brien‚ the author of the book‚ The Things They Carried‚ goes into his memory to his time serving in The Vietnam War. It explains his experiences
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In The Things They Carried‚ Tim O ’Brien uses a variety of stories to explain the life experiences that he and many of his fellow soldiers endured during a single year in Vietnam. He tells these stories in a way that we can connect to these experiences. We never spent time in Vietnam‚ but O ’Brien wants us to feel like we were there. O ’Brien uses what he calls "story-truth" to write these stories. The outcome or the people may be different but the feeling is real; that ’s the truth in the story
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story telling the reader that this particular story is true‚ letting the readers know that there is only one truth‚ despite their final reflection on the story. Moreover‚ he proved his point with his friend Bob “Rat” Kiley’s story. Kiley’s story does not have moral behind it; it mostly show how Kiley felt about his close friend Curt Lemon and the anger he felt when
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my life in the sewage field. 7. ______ I was killed while playing a game of catch with a grenade. Tim had to pick pieces of me out of a tree. 8. ______ Dave Jensen breaks my nose because I stole his jackknife. 9. ______ My real name is Bob. I was the platoon’s first medic. 10. ______ I snuck my girlfriend into Vietnam. She ended up leaving me for Green Berets. 11. ______ I wore my ex-girlfriend’s pantyhose on my neck as a good luck charm. They worked too! 12. ______ I used to
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“In great literature no sense of violence exists on its own sake”(College Board). The scenes from the novel‚ The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien will be used to explain violence in literature.Violence can show many different things in literature‚ for example‚ how cruel people can be. It can be towards a friend‚ an enemy or even oneself. Not all violence is intentional‚ one may not have a choice when harming one’s life. In the novel The Things They Carried‚ there are many examples of violence
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completely avoided. Curt Lemon and Rat Kiley were best friends‚ and Lemon died when they were fooling around‚ and not thinking about the dangers of the war. Lemon died a very gruesome death and Rat Kiley had a very difficult time dealing with it. He could not bear to see his best friend in shreds and dangling in the trees. He ended up shooting a baby buffalo to death. This radiates a sense of anger‚ shock‚ and sadness‚ much like Ted Lavender¡¦s death. Rat Kiley must have felt angry‚ because he
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In the novel The Things They Carried‚ author Tim O’Brien builds the emotion that various soldiers had during the Vietnam war specifically Rat Kiley’s emotion. The feeling of pain‚ grief‚ sorrowness‚ joy‚ and unity. O’Brien uses diction‚ anecdote‚ symbolism and imagery to better establish the tone and build the relationship between the members of the unit. O’Brien goes in depth to each war story he presents using these rhetorical devices to better explain the story to the reader. Firstly O’Brien
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situation like war man is forced to show strength and no signs of weakness‚ and what Lemon did took a lot of self applied pressure off him. Lemon’s acts were also shown as shameful and stupid by the way he played with grenades‚ “Curt Lemon and Rat Kiley were playing catch with smoke grenades.” (70) The game played with this grenade was called “Yellow Mother”‚ they would pull the pin of a smoke grenade and toss
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Kevin Scott English 120 Prof. Creeley 2/28/13 Time O’Brien: Depictions of Soldiers Tim O’Brien’s novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ consists of a series of interconnecting narratives that tell the stories of the soldiers in the Vietnam War. Each story depicts the soldiers in a different way. It can be inferred that O’Brien did this purposefully to illustrate to the reader the different sides of every soldier. O’Brien describes the soldiers in two main‚ ironically opposing ways; an honorable
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