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    Tim O’Brien‚ in his collection of short stories called “The things they carried”‚ develops the theme of soldiers ‘carrying’ many burdens throughout their lives. Through his persona‚ also named Tim O’Brien‚ O’Brien contradicts the stereotypical reason as to why the men joined the war. Jimmy Cross explores the unwanted burden placed on a Lieutenant of the platoon member’s responsibility. Further O’Brien explores the affect of the Vietnam War on the soldiers on their wellbeing through Norman Bowker

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    Close Reading of “How Soon Hath Time” Milton’s sonnet “How Soon Hath Time” is a Petrarchian style poem written in iambic pentameter. It has a rhyme scheme of a‚ b‚ b‚ a‚ a‚ b‚ b‚ a‚ c‚ d‚ e‚ d‚ c‚ e. Each four line stanza makes up one complete sentence. This structure is ideally suitable to the iambic pentameter style of the sonnet. Structuring the four line stanzas this way also constructs a cohesive thought. After the first and second four line stanzas there is major punctuation in the

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    Literary Analysis of The Things They Carried: Metafiction             Tim O’Brien brings the characters and stories to life in The Things They Carried. He uses a writing style that brings stories to life by posing questions between the relationship of reality and fiction (Calloway 249). This is called metafiction and it exposes the truth through the literary experience. Tim O’Brien uses metafiction to make the characters and stories in The Things They Carried realistically evocative of the Vietnam

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    Xin Xiong‚ Jury Sabine von Mering Critical Reading‚ July 26‚ 2014 Civil Disobedience Martin Luther King writes “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in response to a letter from eight clergymen who argued against King’s acts of civil disobedience. In this letter‚ the author writes that “Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively” (724). This sentence indicates that time can be used to promote further development or cause more damages

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    There are many different controversies on the information in “The Things They Carried”. Some believe to tell a good story‚ there’s only facts and no truth‚ but some think that there needs to be all fictional elements and no facts to make a good story. A majority of people say that an excellent story starts with facts and adds in other elements like metaphors‚ symbolism‚ and imagery because visualizing the story helps the reader connect to the unfamiliar event. Using imagery is a smart way to engage

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    soldiers. It’s different from all the other cliché‚ patriotic war movies. Like Tim O’Brien writes “A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct‚ nor encourage virtue‚ nor suggest models of proper human behavior‚ nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral‚ do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted‚ or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste‚ then you have been made the victim of a very

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    UNMDP-FH Depto. de Lenguas Modernas Profesorado de Inglés English Literature Close Reading “The Sun Rising” By John Donne Student: SALADINO‚ Luciana Andrea Reg #: 15776/06 THE SUN RISING[1] by John Donne         BUSY old fool‚ unruly Sun‚         Why dost thou thus‚ Through windows‚ and through curtains‚ call on us ? Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run ?         Saucy pedantic wretch‚ go chide         Late school-boys and sour prentices‚     Go tell court-huntsmen that the

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    Duality: The Struggle of "weight" in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines the word "weight" as "a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried‚ conveyed‚ or transported." Tim O’Brien’s war story The Things They Carried‚ published in 1990‚ explores the theme of weight and its importance to men at war in considerable depth. The opening chapter of this book‚ which was originally written as a short story‚ is comprised of a collection of lists

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    The Things They Carried Ben Cornelius The story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is an enormously detailed fictional account of a wartime scenario in which jimmy Cross (the story’s main character) grows as a person‚ and the emotional and physical baggage of wartime are brought to light. The most obvious and prominent feature of O’Brien’s writing is a repetition of detail. O’brien also passively analyzes the effects of wartime on the underdeveloped psyche

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    "Boom-down‚ and you were dead‚ never partly dead.": An Examination of Responsibility in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried The Things They Carried‚ a collection of short stories written by Tim O’Brien and published in 1990‚ is a story which takes place during the Vietnam war. The Vietnam war was a battle originally between North and South Vietnam. The United States army was brought in on behalf of South Vietnam. The costs of the Vietnam war were extremely high with approximately three million

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