the color of friendship. Rat Kiley uses imagination as an escape through his comic books just as Kiowa carries a New Testament bible‚ not only to read but also for the comforting smell of it. Mitchell Sanders fills his need by fantasizing sexual liaisons by carrying condoms and tiger fatigues‚ the same as Henry Dobbins has his girlfriends pantyhose “around his neck as a comforter‚” (396). Ted Lavender escapes through the use of tranquilizers and dope and Rat Kiley with brandy‚ both in hope of
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takes a heavy toll on the men. For instance‚ when the platoon was underneath the canopies of the trees taking a break from humping in the middle of the jungle and Curt Lemon and Rat Kiley began goofing off with a smoke bomb. The platoon was not under fire or in any threat at the time but for a mere moment Lemon and Kiley let their guard down which in return caused a lost soul. O’Brien himself was a ways away watching the two goofing around with the smoke bomb while he watch Lemon step into the sunlight
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The Weight of War “The Things They Carried‚” by Tim Obrien In the short story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien‚ the experience of the Vietnam War is described through the eyes of American soldiers. The things the soldiers carry are both literal and figurative. While they all carry heavy physical loads‚ they also carry heavy emotional loads‚ composed of grief‚ fear‚ love and longing. Each man’s physical burden underscores his emotional burden. The purpose of this story is to bring
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The Rose of the World Why do we blame Helen’s beauty for the Trojan War or Eve’s curious nature for Adam’s choice to eat the apple‚ thus beginning the mortal human civilization? Throughout history men have found it convenient to hold women responsible for their own weaknesses and intolerance. The apathy of anti-feminist and conservative movements showcases the reality of the Stockholm syndrome and medieval serfdom. Men have been the captors and the masters of the women for time in antiquity‚ but
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Mr. Nenopoulos CAI September 2‚ 2014 The Things They Carried In the following book The Things They Carried by Tim O Brien‚ the title of this novel suits the story well because of many reasons. This book is written about the American soldiers that served in the Vietnam War. In the beginning of this book O Brien instantly gives us a huge nudge as to why this book titled this by telling us what each soldier carried on their backs during this war. He explains how heavy the equipment they have to carry
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Roshan Shaik Ms. Levanduski La III Honors 12/24/15 The Role of Women in War Although women play somewhat of a secondary role in Tim O’Brien’s T he Things They Carried ‚ it is a significant one. Women are looked at as something that the men can look forward to when the war as over‚ serving as hope for many of the male soldiers in vietnam. Female characters such as Martha‚ Mary Anne Bell‚ and Henry Dobbins girlfriend all affect the men of the Alpha Company—although in two of the cases
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the harsh times that they had to experience. Curt Lemon stepped on a landmine and died‚ body parts flying into trees and everything. At the beginning of the chapter Kiley writes to Lemon’s sister. He writes about all of the good times they had and poured his heart out into the letter. “And then the letter gets very sad in serious. Rat pours his heart out. He says he loves the guy. He says the guy was his best friend in the world” (O’Brien 65). This chapter is all about the love between two soldiers
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The Things They Carried Essay In the book The Things They Carried guilt plays a huge role in how the men react and carry themselves. How does the guilt affect the men and how they carry themselves? In the book‚ the men in Alpha Company felt guilt for many things. Some felt guilty from killing while others from letting people get killed. In a way everyone feels guilty from something different‚ but yet they are feeling the same. Some of the men take the guilt in different ways some write
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ounces of premium dope‚ which was a necessity for him.”(O’Brien 3) he also carried horse tranquilizers to help him get by all the traumatizing experiences. Another soldier named Rat Kiley from O’Brien’s book uses the things he carries to help other soldiers forget their reality instead of his. The story says‚ “As a medic‚ Rat Kiley carried a canvas satchel filled with morphine and plasma and malaria tablets and surgical tape and comic books and all the things a medic must carry‚ including M&M’s for
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symbolic of the emotional load the soldiers carry during the Vietnam War. O’brien tries to tell us that the mental burden carried by the soldiers far outweigh the physical load‚ and he authenticated that through his war stories about Norman Bowker‚ Rat Kiley‚ Jimmy Cross‚ Kiowa‚ Curt Lemon‚ and many more. He successfully paints the image that the physical load each man carried just underscores their emotional
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