Coralia Eller Berry Period 3 January 8‚ 2013 A Comparison of Loss Have you ever felt as if the rug has been pulled out from under you? Everything you knew to be true (you were standing in your favorite room of your house‚ comfortable and unguarded) was suddenly gone; when you land‚ everything you see is different. Would you feel a loss? Within the works of The Things They Carried‚ Girl‚ Interrupted‚ and “Letter from Marion Kempner”‚ the characters experience loss in several ways. The
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The constant exposure to life and death throughout the Vietnam War altered several American soldiers perspective on society. In the novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ author Tim O’Brien uses characters such as Rat Kiley‚ Tim O’Brien‚ and Norman Bowker to prove this point. While all the characters have very different personalities‚ skills‚ and future goals‚ each one of them are moved by the war similarly. However‚ Vietnam also has a specific effect on each soldier causing them to feel a certain way.
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examines why “The Role Of The Ideal (Female) Reader” in “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien because this “war fiction is usually less concerned with women than with ritual and test “make you a man” (Smiley). Pamela Smiley begins disusing about Rat Kiley writing to Curt Lemon’s sister to tell her how worthy friends they both are. She describes how the author desired the women to connect with the soldiers emotions‚ as having the opinion of an older lady at the conclusion of the story‚ elaborates the
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it. A few moments later Lee Strunk crawled out of the tunnel. He came up grinning‚ filthy but alive. Lieutenant Cross nodded and closed his eyes while the others clapped Strunk on the back and made jokes about rising from the dead. Worms‚ Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave. Fuckin’
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probably hit me the hardest was “How to Tell A True War Story” (O’Brien‚ 74-76). In this portion of the story Rat Kiley and Kurt Lemon are two friends who were playing catch in the hopes to get some quick smiles and laughs in the middle of all this turmoil called Vietnam. Curt wasn’t paying attention to where he was walking and he stepped on a booby-trapped 105 round. He was dead instantly. In Rat Kiley’s anger he picked this harmless animal to mutilate senselessly. It was a senseless act because slaughtering
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How to Tell a True War Story The Irony of Truth in Tim O’Brien’s "How to Tell a True War Story" "This is true." (O’Brien‚ 420) with this simple statement which also represents a first‚ three-word introductory paragraph to Tim O’Brien’s short story‚ "How to Tell a True War Story"‚ the author reveals the main problem of what will follow. "Truth" when looked up in a dictionary‚ we would probably find definitions similar to sincerity and honesty on the one hand‚ and correctness‚ accuracy or reality
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right” continues to wake him up at night This points to the idea that recalling‚ retelling‚ and reliving his experiences is therapeutic for O’brien. As he gets upset at a woman who “doesn’t listen” his manipulative behavior is parallel to that of Rat Kiley’s while torturing the
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guilt many young men faced when going into the war and how most young men were pressured into the joining army. • In the chapter “The Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong‚” Mark Fossie brings his girlfriend over to Vietnam to his base where‚ according to Rat Kiley‚ “…partly [because of] terror. Partly [because of] rapture…” (O’Brien 105) she becomes obsessed with the thrill of killing‚ symbolizing the transformation of soldiers who are warped into murderers. • In the chapter “In the Field‚” three soldiers
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AP English: Major Works Data Sheet |Title: The Things They Carried |Biographical information about the author | |Author: Tim O’Brien |Tim O’Brien was born in Austin‚ Minnesota on October 1‚ 1946. He was born to a| |Date of Publication: January 1‚1990 |family of three which moved to Worthington‚ Minnesota when
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