What makes a real man? A very traditional idea of it is that men are strong‚ be responsible the protectors‚ the providers and aggressive. In our society‚ we always hear people says men must fight for their lovers and nation‚ men should take care of the family‚ and man should living for competition. In the essay "Giving up the gun" by Andre Dubus and "How to tell a true war story" by O’Brien‚ authors indicate that manhood must be earned through moral character‚ Patriotism and hard work.. In the essay
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most importantly weapons. Each soldier was locked and loaded with a specific war item. For example‚ Henry Dobbins‚ being the big guy‚ automatically made him the gunner‚ which led him to carry the 26 pounds of machinery called the M-60. The medic‚ Rat Kiley‚ was in charge of carrying the medical gear‚ including morphine‚ plasma‚ malaria tablets and surgical tape. The radio and telephone operator‚ Mitchell Sanders was in
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Death is something that is inevitable‚ It’s not something humans and life in general can’t run away from. It is especially something soldiers cannot walk away from. In “The Things They Carried”‚ Tim O’Brien’s characters suffer this reality time and time again in the Vietnam War. A war that costed the life of thousands of American servicemen. Men who suffered horrific conditions and watched their close friends die in devastating combat and treacherous terrain. It could be easy to call the men who
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¨Rat¨ Kiley is telling the guys a story about a guy in his old unit‚ Mark Fossie‚ that sent a letter to his girlfriend and had her come out to the jungle with him. The story starts off kind of plausible‚ right up until Rat tries to tell everyone that the girlfriend‚ Mary Anne‚ ended up becoming a green beret and went out on missions with no weapon. ¨Ambush. All
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Anne loses the morality she is supposed to carry as a civilized young woman. She abandoned the roles that she has been forced to carry and loses the morality forced on her by society. She learned how to adjust to the land quickly‚ as shown when Rat Kiley spoke about what it was like when you first got to Vietnam versus when you got adjusted. He states that “when we first got here - all of us - we were real young and innocent‚ full of romantic bullshit‚ but we learned pretty damn quick. And so did
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with the uses of Tim not wanting to go to war‚ when Mary Bell changes‚ and Rat Kiley’s greif. First‚ one instance in which Tim O’Brien utilizes the theme of fear first by using the character Tim. Tim described his situation as “I was drafted into a wharf I hated”(O’Brien pg38). Tim did not have fond opinions
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The theme that war changes a person is evident throughout almost every short story in the book The Things They Carried. Some are changed for the better‚ and some‚ not so much. Tim O’Brien used the characters he has built up to show the effects of war on different people. Out of the many themes included in this book‚ this is a very important one. Any situation will change you if you keep at it long enough‚ and that is just what happens to each and every person involved in a war. In the very first
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The Things They Carried Rhetorical Analysis Essay In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ O’Brien uses many short stories to describe his experience in Vietnam. The story that captured many aspects of writing was “How to Tell a True War Story” because it acts as a guide to writing a true story. O’Brien uses many different rhetorical strategies‚ narrative techniques‚ and establishes a theme in this story to help develop his characters and story line. Tim O’Brien uses several rhetorical strategies
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respectable reputation‚ One of the central themes in The Things They Carried‚ is that fear of ruining one’s reputation served as motivation to the soldiers during the Vietnam War. Tim O’Brien conveys this theme using anecdotes about Curt Lemon‚ Rat Kiley‚ and himself as examples. Curt Lemon’s experience with the dentist during the war shows that his fear of losing his honorable reputation motivated him to take a risk that he normally would not take. Throughout his time as a soldier‚ Curt Lemon
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truth in a war story does not matter; only the emotions that the story is trying to relay matters. In the beginning of the passage O’Brien starts with a story about the death of a soldier‚ Curt Lemon. Lemon was playing around with his best friend‚ Rat Kiley‚ when he stepped on a hidden mine and was blown away. After the death of Lemon O’Brien brings up the idea that in a war story it is nearly impossible to separate “what happened from what seemed to happen” (128). When Lemon died everyone there witnessed
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