Adam Peppel IAH 204 4/11/2011 “It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war‚” Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Both Kien and Jimmy Cross‚ used their love back home as a way to escape from the horrors of war. Even though they were from different sides of the world‚ Kien and Cross shared similar experiences during the war. Both found themselves fighting with the same motivation‚ using their love to keep them alive and to survive until the end of war. For one of them
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The Meaning of the Things They Carried Tim O’Brien is a veteran of the Vietnam War and he fought with the United States in that controversial war. Tim O’Brien was drafted into the Vietnam War in 1968. He served as an infantryman‚ and obtained the rank of sergeant and won a Purple Heart after being wounded by shrapnel. He was discharged from the Vietnam War in 1970. I believe that O’Brien’s own past experiences he encountered in the Vietnam War gave him inspiration to write “The Things They Carried
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814725425 “Material Allies” In the short story The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross leads a band of his men through the hills and swamps of Vietnam while dealing with the psychological agony of both his love for Martha and the safety of his men. In wartime however‚ it is known that your fellow man is anything from safe. Much of the men have camaraderie‚ but know that at any moment the person sitting next to them could be killed. This is where the theme of classification
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in school or in extra curricular activities. The Chicana/o children in stories like‚ Eleven‚ The Scholarship Jacket‚ and Pocho all deal with stereotypes that hurt or discriminate against them. In the story‚ The Scholarship Jacket by Marta Salina‚ Martha is a hardworking girl who is
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back home‚ Martha. He stresses over and over to himself about how perfect she is‚ and mentions repeatedly that she’s a virgin and that he is head over heels in love with her. As the story goes on‚ you begin to realize that Jimmy is more in love with the idea of Martha‚ than Martha herself. He is in love with the criteria that she presents. It’s clear that he is embellishing some of her qualities just so that he has something to look forward to. Jimmy is using his “love” for Martha as gravitational
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Thirty six year old and mother of two‚ Martha Hester‚ lurches violently forward with another gag reflex kicking in as she retches into the what-was white toilet bowl. The pain is almost unbearable‚ her body now completely paralysed by waves of spams that leave her insides churning in on themselves over and over again at an almighty force. Even if she wanted to‚ there is no turning back now. Through blurred‚ teary and disoriented eyes‚ Martha reaches for the nearly empty pharmaceutical vial‚ pours
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Swot Analysis of Trap-Ease Executive Summary: Trap-Ease America has the patent to a revolutionary new mouse trap. Trap-Ease America expected the revolutionary mouse trap to sell like hot cakes unfortunately things have not progressed as predicted so far. A few major problems can be identified with the overall business strategy of Trap-Ease America. First of all‚ the President of the company happens to be the only sales person as well for the product. Secondly‚ there seems to be a wrong selection
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In the poem “Ballard of the Landlord”‚ Hughes uses the literary device tone. At the beginning of the poem‚ the character’s tone was calm and a little bit sarcastic while trying to tell his landlord his home needed to be fixed up. He says‚ “when you come up yourself / It’s a wonder you don’t fall down” (7-8). The tone of this is being sarcastic but he is not being aggressive; he is just trying to get his point across to his landlord. After the landlord says he still has to pay the rent money‚ he then
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In “The Things They Carried”‚ by Tim O’Brien‚ the author uses symbolism in order to show the soldiers emotional and physical burdens they carry. For example‚ Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from this woman he loved named Martha‚ everywhere he went in his backpack. Also‚ another example of the symbolism‚ Kiowa‚ another soldier from the story‚ carried around a New Testament that his father gave to him. And the final example of symbolism is when soldier Ted Lavender died‚ Jimmy Cross was emotionally
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to Sarah and why was she so cold and hard to her? In The Heretic’s Daughter‚ Andrew get smallpox and is close to death. Also Martha‚ Sarah’s mom is killed during the witch trials because she wants to put an end to them. Sarah’s mother is hanged for being "witch of Andover". Martha‚ for example can be defiant‚ mentally strong‚ and she has a loving side toward Sarah. Martha sometimes can be stubborn and defiant. In one of her quotes from chapter 1 she says “I’d rather eat stones” (Chapter 1 p.12).
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