or being talked about. O’Brien would be talking about some war story or someone ‚ and in reality it was really Rat Kiley‚Curt Lemon or Azar talking. In addition some of the reading was hard to comprehend such as when the soldiers were telling their war stories ‚ and if it was real or not also how things happened during the war. A part of the book that had my emotion mixed was when Rat Kiley stepped over a Vietnamese baby well in battle and called it “crunchy munchy.”
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also one of the storytellers. Rat likes to add inaccurate information to his stories so they seem the best even if some of his stories aren’t true. Tim is the narrator and the protagonist and he still likes Rat because even though his stories are not fully true‚ he has good medical skills and helps people who need medical attention. O’Brien writes that Lemon’s sister didn’t send a letter back to say thank you for thinking of me. Instead she doesn’t write back and Rat is offended because she was trying
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person behind it. But the grotesque part‚ he said‚ was her jewelry. At the girl’s throat was a necklace of human tongues (O’Brien 105).” Most likely‚ Rat Kiley creates this story to show that women and war do not
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An Israeli female soldier fell apart to her traumatic death incident of her comrade on Monday‚ November 23‚ 2015. In the West bank in Nabulus city at a petrol station‚ a Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier in the stomach. To her‚ it seemed as if her whole world was deteriorating. However‚ to another soldier reporting that it was a horrible misfortune‚ but it was common that many Israelis had been getting killed recently‚ showed that it was easier for him to deal with this heartbreak unlike the
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stories. The Protagonists in both stories are soldiers of war but they fought in different wars. In Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” Harold‚ was a soldier returning from the First World War in Germany. In O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” Bob (Rat) Kiley was a soldier in Vietnam during the Vietnamese War. Both plots and settings are completely different‚ for “A Soldier’s Home” is set within the town of Oklahoma after the war is already over. Its basic plot follows the transition phase for Harold
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The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a semi-autobiographical novel based on O’Brien’s experience in the Vietnam War. In the book‚ O’brien tells about the events leading up to him being drafted‚ war stories‚ and some narratives about his comrades. He says that he did not join the war because of morals‚ but because he was scared not to. Throughout the book‚ the characters have been coping with death/mortality‚ social obligations/pressures‚ guilt/shame‚ and moral conflicts. O’Brien shares his thoughts
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"She was a girl‚ that’s all. I mean‚ if it was a guy‚ everybody’d say‚ Hey‚ no big deal‚ he got caught up in the Nam shit‚ he got seduced by the Greenies. See what I mean? You go these blinders on about women‚" Rat Kiley points out on page 107. No one can escape the grips of war intact; they will always lose some part of themselves. Nevertheless‚ Mary Anne discovers herself among intensity of the battle. She divulges on page 111‚ "I know exactly who I am. You can’t
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movie. In the movie‚ Rat Kiley who is telling the story seems gentler. In the book they make it seem like everything Rat says is exaggerated‚ but the movie does not stress that fact. "Among the men in Alpha Company‚ Rat had a reputation for exaggeration and overstatement‚ a compulsion to rev up the facts‚ and for most of us it was normal procedure to discount sixty or seventy percent of anything he had to say" (O’Brien 89). Also‚ the movie emphasizes the fact that Rat Kiley fell in love with Mary
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They both know what it’s like to think you’re about to die. But Tim is also terrified of the power he has over Jorgenson. Chapter 21 Rat Kiley is literally driven crazy by the war. The entire country seems full of ghosts--every sound the men hear is haunted--and when they are travelling solely by night; they can hardly tell if their own bodies still exist. Rat cannot handle this. He sees visions of himself as dead. He views the other men as just so many anatomical parts. He loses his sense of reality
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of view change to vividly describe Curt Lemmon’s death. Curt Lemmon was like a brother to Rat Kiley‚ and the two of them went and did everything together. A week after Curt Lemmon died by stepping on a rigged mortar round‚ Rat Kiley wrote a letter to his sister explaining how much he loved Curt and how much of a hero he was. But after two months‚ Rat Kiley did not receive a reply from Lemmon’s sister. Kiley simply brushed the lack of acknowledgement from Lemmon’s sister off and called her a “dumb
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