non-linear novel by Tim O’ Brien that consists of the themes trauma and insecurity. The protagonist of the text‚ John Wade is driven into insanity due to his fear of losing the love of his life‚ Kathy. Throughout the novel‚ john Wade’s secrets are exposed to the world‚ this being the reason that ended his career as a politician‚ which was the final push towards his madness. Wade was not only affected by his shattering moment in his career‚ but his childhood and experiences of war in Vietnam left
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was evident in‚ In the Lake of the Woods. The main character‚ John Wade‚ believed he was a magician from early childhood and throughout his development into adulthood. He was the ultimate magician both personally and in his perception of his vocations of soldier and politician. Many points-of view were incorporated into the story. A continuous element throughout this story is the mystery of the narrator‚ the character of Kathy‚ and the evidence provided or presented as hypothesis by numerous characters
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Minnesota. John Wade and his wife Kathy move to a cabin on the lake shortly after he is handed a landslide loss in a senatorial primary race. In the race‚ the main character‚ John Wade‚ was revealed to have participated in a massacre at the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War. It was also revealed that Wade later altered his military documents to show that he was never involved in the incident; this is the reason behind the landslide loss. After a week at the remote cabin‚ Wade’s wife‚ Kathy‚ and the
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The First World War broke out because of a system of two major European Alliances. These started a war due to Germany’s ruthlessness‚ and caused a European war. Then the nations’ colonies joined in‚ and eventually all of the world’s major powers had joined in‚ causing the First World War. Before the main events of the war‚ two main alliances had been formed. Germany had defeated France in the Franco-Prussian war in 1871. 3 000 French soldiers were killed‚ 14 000 wounded‚ and about 100 000 captured
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1.4 UKCCA Party Project assignment brief Sharmeen Ahmed‚ Marketing & Events Officer at the UKCCA has asked you for help with organising a Christmas party event to attract students into the centre. She wants you to come up with an idea for an attractive theme for the party and to present projections for the costs and projected profit for the event. Learning Objectives This project will help you: * To understand the importance of profit and cash flow and be able to apply the concepts
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Lake of the Woods is centered around the mysterious disappearance of Kathy Wade. Mysterious is the key word‚ as throughout the novel O’Brien plays with the fine line between ambiguity and reality. Kathy’s husband John Wade‚ the main character‚ is a Vietnam veteran and former politician whose participation in the infamous Mai Lai Massacre caused his fall from grace. Following a landslide defeat in the congressional elections‚ Kathy and John retreat to solitude in an isolated cabin in the Minnesota
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his whole nature " Eleanor K. Wade IS THIS AN ADEQUATE EXPLANATION FOR WHAT HAPPENS TO JOHN WADE? John Wade left America a human being‚ yet came back a human killer. His months in Vietnam were filled with bloodshed and human atrocity‚ and from this‚ no man could feasibly return the same person. Yet beneath what John endured throughout the war‚ he suffered many unkindness’ and tragedies that shaped him into adulthood. It was not only the war that made John Wade‚ but it was John Wade’s existence;
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“The goal‚ I suppose‚ any fiction writer has‚ no matter what your subject‚ is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human”(Tim O’Brien). This quote‚ said by Tim‚ helps illustrate the emotional connection O’Brien is trying to make with the reader. He intends to touch the reader’s heart with his words‚ not just make a profit off his work
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false memory experiments. In the article Wade‚ Garry‚ and Pezdek work to show that Porter and Shaw were incorrect in their findings‚ and that the results of their tests actually aligned more with the ones others had done previously. One of the biggest flaws the authors of the article found with Porter and Shaw’s results was that when testing their subjects‚ they didn’t distinguish between false beliefs—just believing when someone tells you something happened in your past—and false memories—fabricating
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the Lake of the Woods‚ O’Brien channels between his life in the present at the lake with his wife‚ and his life in the past‚ recalling memories from the war in Vietnam. The novel begins with a preview into the love life and marriage of John and Kathy Wade. While the novel progresses‚ their relationship begins to deteriorate and as the narrator jumps from his past to his present‚ the impact of his time in Vietnam becomes more apparent as a primary factor in the failure of their marriage. Throughout
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