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    lives for the sake of not being titled as cowards. Some get to fight another day‚ some don’t‚ others get captured and become prisoners or hostages. But one thing is certain‚ for those who have experienced war know first hand that it has the power to change you as a person. In the short stories “Guests of the Nation“ and “The Things They Carried‚” authors Frank O’Connor and Tim O’Brien share the same central idea of the horrible effects of war. Both stories are about a young male soldier who faces

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    Riham Hermiz T/TH 11-12:30 2/19/13 The Things They Carried There are a few things that I gathered from the story “The Things They Carried”. The boys were all young and inexperienced and it was clear they were drafted bodies for numerical gain. They carried both physical and emotional baggage‚ and it’s never clear which weighs more heavily on them. It seemed that to some of the boys‚ their emotional baggage weighed harsher on them than the physical baggage that they had to carry. Each boy

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    O’Brian’s “The Things They Carried”. My father fought in the Vietnam War‚ so my interest was in trying to understand the reason that we had such a strained relationship when I was growing up. I believe I have more of an understanding as to why he didn’t act like a grown up. He wanted those years that should have been his childhood back. In this short story the author showed the things they carried physically so that the reader could appreciate the significance of the things they carried emotionally

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    Comp Horvath T‚R 7/31/2013 Escape What is Real‚ Feel What is Right Casualties‚ drugs‚ terror‚ violence‚ volatility‚ and mental instability are all well too common for any war. For the Vietnam War‚ it exceeded all of these. In The Things They Carried‚ all of the soldiers were faced with these burdening issues on a day-to-day basis‚ fearing for their lives‚ their perceived loved ones‚ and their own emotional sanity. Because this war put on a great deal of stress on the soldiers‚ there was

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    The Way They Survived by The short story I chose to write my essay on is "The Things They Carried" by Tim O’Brien. The soldiers in the story had to deal with not only accepting the deaths of those they became close with‚ but also dealing with the knowledge that they took another human beings’ life. The author shows how they had to carry not only their equipment; but the emotions that came along with being in a war. The emotions I speak of are ones that come from knowing they were mere grunts-and

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    In the novel “The Things They Carried” written by Tim O’Brien‚ he discusses the weapons and equipment’s that each American soldier carried during the Vietnam War. The things that the soldiers carried with them are both tangible and intangible. What these items are depends upon each of the soldiers. They carried the basic necessities in order for survival and the bare minimum to make life as livable as possible. However‚ they also carried with them fear and memories. It is the intangible items like

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    The Things They Carried In “The Things They Carry” by Tim O’Brien‚ readers are taken on an in-depth emotional and physical journey with Alpha Company in Vietnam. O’Brien uses some basic but symbolic objects that soldiers carried in war to show an emotional connection with home. The emotional importance of the objects is specific to individual soldiers and carries a heavy burden on the emotional status of some soldiers. O’Brien puts heavy emphasis on personal objects and on the physical aspect

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    Spring Book Review In The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien tells the tale of not about war‚ but rather about war’s effect on one’s mentality. Ultimately‚ this novel is built on a foundation of the items that the soldiers of the Vietnam War carried. Whether it was the way Jimmy Cross uses the pebble to escape from his duties as a soldier or when Norman Bowker realizes that courage comes form within‚ not from receiving a Silver Star; O’Brien uses baggage as a symbol throughout the book to teach

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    story an example of this is Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried". As the story goes on it shows not only the literal meaning of what they carried but also symbolically the burdens that they had mentally. In the literal sense O’Brien talks about what different members of a platoon in Vietnam carried. This helps him to move to a more symbolic sense at the end of the story. He starts by talking about necessities and slowly moves on to what they carried to remind them that there was a world out side

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    Moffitt 4/16/2013 The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien continuously uses repetition of talking about the items the soldiers carry mentally and physically to show the burdens of war. Each item O’Brien talks about tells a little about each character and what fears they try to escape from. An example would be “Dave Jensen carried three pairs of socks and a can of Dr.Scholl’s foot powder as a precaution for trench foot.” (O’Brien pg.1) Jensen carried these things so you could be very clean and

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