The Things They Carried Do you have a best friend? Or someone you love? In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien he writes about the surrealism of war in “How to Tell a True War Story” and “The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bang.” In the first story the character‚ Rat‚ had a best friend and someone he loved‚ who was killed. It is believable because of the details. However‚ the second story has details that are too fantastic to believe. The author wants us to make up our own minds about these
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United State of America. With her pink sweater and culottes‚ she is the All-American girl with an American Dream. “Mary Anne and Fossie had been sweethearts since grammar school and since sixth grade on they had known for a fact that someday they would get married‚ live in a house near Lake Erie‚ and have three children‚ That was the plan” (95). The chapter “Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong” examines the transformation that occurs when this innocent girl is lifted out of the Cleveland suburbs and plunked
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Lake” by T.C. Boyle and “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” by Tim O’Brien. To begin‚ “Greasy Lake” demonstrates just how malicious a person can be. Boyle uses the characterization of the narrator to show how evil is hidden in every person. The narrator is characterized as greasy‚ bad and reckless. For example‚ when the narrator and his friends arrive at greasy lake they start a fight with a greasy character that is there with his girlfriend. While fighting the greasy character the narrator beats him
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Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ there are an abundance of themes that he uses to alter the aspects of the story. Whether it is the way he integrates metamorphosis into the characters’ lives‚ the loyalty and companionship between all of the men‚ or simply the way a war story is told. The character that seemed to be the boldest in this story was Mary Anne Bell. She went through so much change and transformation in one small excerpt of the novel. It seemed as though she lost her innocence and took on a new identity
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people. There is an innocence that is forever lost. An innocence that can never be gained back. Change is inevitable. Change‚ in Mary Anne Bell’s case‚ is here to stay. It has its way of affecting each and every person it encounters. In the book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ he incorporates an innocent city girl into the wild jungle of war in Vietnam; Mary Anne Bell. Because Mark Fossie decides to take a drastic measure and fly his girlfriend to Vietnam during one of the most brutal wars
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makes us who we are this‚ being an unchangeable part of our history we can only see how it affected the people around it. In the poem Ball Turret Gunner and the Sweetheart of the song‚ the main characters both come to realization that you are disposable and they you can be easily replaced. In the poem the ball turret gunner‚ the main character tells a story in the third person about how he got all this training and he was told how he would be protected and then on his first time out he was ripped to
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“people never change‚” can be disproven as people change differently in various environments. The chapter “Sweet Heart of the Song Tra Bong” in‚ The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien‚ shows how Mary Anne Bell is affected by the tough conditions of war. Mark Fossie‚ the boyfriend of Mary Anne‚ tells her to fly out to Vietnam so that they can be together. Once she arrives‚ Mary Anne quickly reveals her curiosity by taking an interest in activities to help the squad such as cooking‚ caring for the injured
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thing? No‚ it’s not‚ it’s completely normal to have emotions‚ everyone has emotions. Mary Anne Bell symbolizes how women are capable of being part of a war and finding interest in subjects in which society would consider “Only meant for men”. Tim O’Brien is not a feminist‚ I believe that he is making an argument discussing how women should be treated equally as men‚ no gender labels nor excuses. O’Brien says‚ “If Mary was a man it wouldn’t be a big deal”. No matter what gender soldiers are they lose
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<center><b>Difference Between Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong & A Soldier’s Sweetheart</b></center> <br> <br>Once a successful novel hits the market‚ producers are inclined to adapt the story into a movie. Since imagination‚ symbolism‚ and character psyches are explored in a novel‚ the movies tend to lack the luster of the original text. Using their imagination‚ readers are able to conjure up characters and scenes that are unique. This is the case with Tim O’Brien’s‚ "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong." This is a story
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Mary Anne Warren argued that fetus is a human being but not a person‚ which only persons have full moral rights. What is human being? What is person? Is it right for a woman to carry out abortion? In this essay‚ we will pinpoint at commenting her criteria on personhood. It is useful to look beyond for us to decide whether other beings like aliens are a person or not. If we want to be sure of behaving morally towards these beings‚ we have to somehow decide whether they are people‚ and hence
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