“The Details of Military Life in Vietnam in Tim O’Brien’s ‘The Things They Carried’” “The Things They Carried” is a story based on the experiences of young American soldiers fighting during the Vietnam War. The story begins giving you insight into the thoughts of the soldiers‚ describing to you what they humped along with them through their walk in the deep jungle of Vietnam. Some of those things were necessities “P-38 can openers‚ pocket knives‚ heat tabs‚ wristwatches‚ dog tags‚ mosquito
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People carry all kinds of things on the daily basis. From little things like car keys to a traumatic memory from the past. The soldiers who fought in the vietnam war had to go through many incredibly horrifying experiences and it was those exact events that make “The Things They carried” by Tim O’Brien such a marvellous vivid book. Tim O’Brien uses imagery‚ figurative language and repetition to get a ridiculous emotional connection with the reader. He uses story-telling to clear his conscious about
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Araby Notes and Questions "Araby" "Araby‚" like much of Joyce’s work‚ is a fictionalized‚ autobiographical story. On May 14‚1894‚ a five-day charity bazaar called Araby opened in Dublin. The name alludes to Arabia where open-air shops and rows of peddler carts lined the streets in an exciting cacophony. For children living in Dublin‚ Arabia enjoyed a mythical‚ mysterious aura. It was a far away place rich with exotic treasures‚ much different from damp and dreary Dublin. Joyce was twelve
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but with imagery that make a story easier to picture it when reading it. When an author writes a story they need to use facts to make a good story‚ but they need to add things to make the readers picture what is happening‚ they make them think deeper about the story. An example of when this happens in The Things They Carried is when O’Brien is talking about Curt Lemons death‚ “I can see him turning looking back at Rat Kiley‚ then he laughed and took that curious half step from the shade into sunlight
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A reoccurring theme throughout the book is expressed by the title. What else does the novel aim to represent? Discuss The Things They Carried is an anthology written by Tim O’Brien‚ which outlines and showcases the harsh realities of war. In The Things They Carried‚ O’Brien often focuses on how the men in his stories‚ even if they volunteered to fight‚ joined the army because of the unspoken pressure to fulfil their obligations as citizens and soldiers. These social obligations range from that of
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The excerpt of “The Things They Carried” inspired me to write about minimalism and the burden that excessive amounts of possessions can create and how ultimately it can weigh down an individual’s happiness. It inspired me to write about this topic by listing off all the things the soldiers in the story had to carry and how much each thing weighed. It made me think about how unhappy carrying the heavy equipment might have made each soldier and how unhappy I was with the things weighing me down. To
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Compare and Contrast: Beach or Mountain Vacations Jennifer Burmester English 121 Alisa Moore October 3‚ 2010 Beach or Mountain Vacationing People take vacations all the time. There are many choices to choose from. I think that two of the most common places are either the beach or the mountains. Both places offer a ton of activities. The activities in the mountains cannot offer the same activities as the beach as well as the beach not offer the same as the mountain. There are
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purposes. In The Things They Carried‚ a novel about war stories in Vietnam‚ Tim O’Brien uses many recurring details to support the central theme of death and its impact on the characters and the way they execute things from there on. The impact of the many deaths in the novel involves modifying command‚ haunting of dead body details‚ and a want to change something from the past. The first body to drop in the novel is that of Ted Lavender. Ted Lavender was a petrified soldier‚ one that carried 34 rounds
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Compare and Contrast Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration Opposites in photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Is that photosynthesis is taking in carbon dioxide and water by absorbing energy from the sun and then release oxygen and storing glucose. In cellular respiration glucose and oxygen enters and they are converted into carbon dioxide‚ water and ATP energy. But they work alike because they both have electron transport chains and similarly ATP.
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Dialectical Journals of The Things They Carried Idea/Stylistic aspect | Quotation | Response | Truth | “Among the men in Alpha Company‚ Rat had a reputation for exaggeration and overstatement‚ a compulsion to rev up the facts…it was normal procedure to discount sixty or seventy percent of anything he had to say.” | The narrator‚ in making a seemingly offhanded comment about Rat’s tendency to lie‚ reveals another major point of the novel: the truth of a particular story is differing from person
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