Metafiction is a literary device that makes a reader question what is reality and what is fiction. Tim O’Brien uses metafiction‚ in his chapter “How to Tell a True War Story”‚ to tell the reader how one can pick out a true war story as he is telling a war story. He uses this technique to emphasize how real the stories were to keep himself sane and get his bottled-up emotions off his chest. In the chapter “Notes”‚ O’Brien tells the reader a story about a man named Norman Bowker. Bowker committed
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Wartime stories are often hard to tell in a narrative non-fiction piece due to the difficulties faced in said wartime conditions. Author Tim O’Brien attempts to address these issues in his novel The Things They Carried‚ which is a recollection of his war stories which are set in Vietnam. O’Brien’s method of circumventing the problems posed by relying on using imagination and invention to accurately display the truth‚ as he sees it. The concept of such can be seen in three chapters of the novel‚
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“The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.” This quote from a British preacher Charles Spurgeon accurately con-veys Flannery O’Connor’s works that are considered mere dramatizations of her stated religious views. O’Connor’s stories such as “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Revelation” have au-thoritative narrators who analyze corrupt characters’ theological errors. She often focuses on characters’ grotesque path toward redemption
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In 1965‚ "Revelation" is as short story by Flannery O’Connor. The story is narrated in third person. Flannery O’Connor convey racism‚ judgment‚ religion‚ and symbolic (theme) in the writing of this short story. Mrs. Turpin (main protagonist) who is a 47-year-old big size woman that weigh one hundred and eighty‚ own a yellow farm house‚ land‚ have hogs and consider herself to be a respectable‚ hard-working church-going Christian. Mrs. Turpin and husband Claud arrives at the doctor’s office. The waiting
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O’Connor is a satirical writer who uses the stereotypes of Southern communities to bring out the reality of many towns in the South. Most of her stories are written in the times in which she was alive‚ so mostly the 40’s in Southern America. Her short stories give the grim and cruel aspects of Southern people that not many people think about the South. O’Connor to express her utter disgust of Southern façade’s in “Good Country People” uses symbols‚ themes‚ and use of diction in her title to dismiss
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The part I liked most about O Brother‚ Where Art Thou in relation to the Odyssey is the way George Clooney’s character brings out the silver tongue aspect of Odysseus’ act. He uses jargon and ’big words’ that befuddle and charm anyone he directs his words toward. For example‚ in one of the first scenes of the movie‚ Everett tries to befuddle the other escapees into electing him as their leader by throwing difficult words at them. To be honest‚ I was surprised they understood him enough to understand
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In the novel The Things They Carried the young soldiers are afraid of seeming weak. O’ Brien didn’t want to go to war. He was even considering fleeing to Canada. O’ Brien eventually decided to go because he was afraid of seeming like a coward to his family and town. He went to war out of fear of appearing weak to his peers. He believed it would be shameful if he didn’t go to the war. The soldiers in the novel were cautious to show any sign of fear. They were in an unpredictable and strange environment
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themselves with dignity‚ poise‚ and a kind of moral; a moral that has been tainted throughout life going against their own ideals of what is right and acceptable. For if a person’s life continuously seems to be filled with morals‚ without a moral less action‚ do not believe them. ‘Morals’ is defined as a person’s standard of behaviors or beliefs of what is and what is not acceptable for them to do. Whether in a situation of which a person’s life is in jeopardy‚ the way they were raised‚ hardships‚ or
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Goa. Goa /ˈɡoʊ.ə/ is India’s smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in West India in the region known as the Konkan‚ it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north‚ and by Karnataka to the east and south‚ while the Arabian Sea forms its western coast. Goa is India’s richest state with a GDP per capita two and a half times that of the country as a whole. It was ranked the best placed state by the Eleventh Finance Commission for its infrastructure and ranked on
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Prompt: "You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don’t care for obscenity‚ you don’t care for the truth; and if you don’t care for the truth‚ watch how you vote. Send guys to war‚ they come home talking dirty" (O’Brien 69). Drawing on your reading‚ knowledge‚ and experience‚ write a carefully reasoned essay defending‚ challenging‚ or qualifying O’Brien’s view of the relationship between truth and obscenity. Obscenity in Truth Truth and obscenity have a direct
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