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    to weapons soldiers brought mundane things like candy‚ cigarettes‚ and letters from their loved ones‚ O’Brien emphasizes their humanity. And in specifying the exact weight of several of the items‚ including food‚ weapons‚ and gear‚ he gives us a very tangible idea of what it was like to struggle under such weight. But the soldiers carry more than just physical burdens—in many cases‚ they are weighed down by emotional baggage. Jimmy Cross thinks that he carried the idea

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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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    Angel Caisapanta Professor Wells English 1102 14 February‚ 2011 “The Things They Carried” In the short story “The Things They Carried‚” written by Tim O’Brien‚ there is a lot of symbolism in each specific object that was mentioned. According to Dictionary.com‚ a symbolism is the practice of representing things by symbols‚ or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. A symbol is something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something

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    In life there are choices people would have to make every day: To go in or out‚ to leave or stay‚ to move on or remain in the past‚ to keep or to erase‚ to live or die – these type of choices are the things Tim O’Brien carried when his daughter‚ Kathleen‚ asked why he writes about Vietnam and later suggested that he should forget about the war. Exploring the secret passageways of fragmented memories of O’Brien‚ not only struck with his intricately crafted mind of the past‚ but the feeling of being

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    O’Brien’s The Things They Carried describes the many different things soldiers carried during the war. Of course they would carry items they would need to survive but not only that‚ they would also carry personal items. Some of the things the soldiers would carry were a little odd but would mean something to them. Ranging from Henry Dobbins’ girlfriend’s pantyhose to Mitchell Sanders’ condoms‚ the unit was filled with bizarre articles that held sentimental feeling. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross‚ however

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    this impressionable era (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)‚ Williams wrote a play called A Streetcar Named Desire‚ which was ultimately considered a trademark modernist work. O’Brien‚ however was well known for his controversial novel‚ The Things they Carried‚ which was classified as “postmodern” after the Vietnam War. Interestingly enough‚ a closer look at the conceptual value of modernism and postmodernism can provide us with a deeper understanding of the novels and the movement that was at hand

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    different kinds of friends who play different roles in our live: "convenience friends‚" "special-interest friends‚ cross-generational friends‚" and "close friends". I previously believed that all friends were the same‚ but after analyzing the friendships I’ve had since childhood until now‚ I came to realize that‚ indeed some of my friends fit into three of these categories. . First there are the special interest friends. These people are your friends only because

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    The Things they Carried is seen as one of the most honest depictions of the Vietnam War that has ever been written. Tim O’Brien has a way of creating Vietnam around the reader. However‚ despite the clear depiction of war‚ this novel raises the question‚ “What is true?”. Through analyzing this novel‚ it is clear the author believes that the happening-truth of a story is far less important than the emotional-truth. One of the central chapters of the novel is titled‚ “The Man I Killed.” However‚ only

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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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    Cited: O ’Brien‚ Tim . The Things They Carried. New York‚ NY: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence‚ 1990. Print. “195: War Stories” This American Life. National Public Radio. 2001. Web. 28 September 2001. Transcript. Tom Paxton. Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation. 1965. Document.

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