Soldiers looked for ways to communicate their experience to those who were not soldiers. O”Brien‚ Komunyakka‚ and Owen are soldiers who each wrote a text describing soldiers at war from their personal point of view. O”Brien writes to get others to understand the physical‚ mental‚ and emotional things soldiers carried during war. Komunyakka writes to get others to understand how the soldiers must face death and reality at the same time while also having emotions as any other human does. Owen writes
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nonstop misery and false hope of the war ending. The soldiers of the war never had a hatred for the opposing side‚ it was forced murder; they saw each other with pity from time to time which the authors Erich Maria Remarque‚ August Stramm‚ and Tim O’ Brien exemplify
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people receive stories‚ some true and false. According to Tim O’Brien‚ a true war story does not generalize nor indulge in abstraction or analysis (O’Brien 84). In the stories “This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen” and “Dulce et Decorum est” the authors illustrates nightmarish actions between soldiers in squads and prisoner in concentration camps. The atrocities they illustrate through the use of imagery and choice in words‚ according to Tim O’Brien‚ are a true war story and without them the story
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may think the line is sarcasm and not believe the information being said. The readers will question if the story is true or not. Throughout the story the narrator says how many war stories are not true so I do not know what to believe. The author‚ Tim O’Brien‚ says that nothing can be believed to be true‚ which makes the story ironic. He says‚ “In war you lose your sense of the definite‚ hence your sense of truth itself‚ and therefore it’s safe to say that in a true war story nothing much is ever
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thing. It has confounding effects on everyone involved. Some people take it well‚ while others have such horrible experiences that it scares them for life and affects them even after the war when they return home. Ernest Hemingway’s Soldier’s Home and Tim O’Brien’s How to Tell a True War Story are two great examples of literature that express’ what any particular soldier can go through upon returning home. Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome is a very common sickness that soldiers come down with after returning
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Leading the Rainy River Throughout our lives‚ we have read about many amazing people who led others‚ whether to victory or defeat. In the year so far‚ we have read several short stories based on the idea of leadership. We were introduced to several influential characters and what they did that showed leadership. Each one of these people showed a different aspect of a good leader‚ from decision making to bravery. To be a good leader‚ you have to have a few characteristics. First‚ you must have a
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Truth and non-truth are several aspects emphasized in Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried. Throughout the novel‚ O’Brien “[blurs] the lines between fiction and nonfiction” (Smith)‚ and explores how using fiction to convey the war affects the readers more as they learn about the soldiers. By using juxtaposition and by incorporating fictional parts in the novel‚ O’Brien shows how truth is less important in war stories than non-truth since non-truth makes the reader look at war stories at a
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listen. Tim O’Brien also suffered from depression after the war. The causes of his depression were he went through the war‚ saw many people die‚ and saw the true brutality of the war. Many others lived a life of regret after the war. The most common reasons are seeing people die or killing people. Although‚ for Norman it was different. His regret was for the fact that he didn’t win the Silver Star. He just wanted to prove himself to his father. For example‚ Tim O’Brien also had
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The Things [We] Carry An Essay Project for 11th grade: A Response to The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Tim O’Brien‚ in his short story “The Things They Carried‚” writes about what soldiers in Vietnam carried‚ literally and figuratively. He discusses what they “humped‚” the tangible things and the intangible ones too. For example‚ all the men carried flak jackets which had a real defined weight but also they carried fear and “all the emotional baggage of men who might die” (21). We can touch
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Key Question #11 The Rainy River questions and answers 1. I was surprised at how much I actually enjoyed this story. Not only did it give some fascinating insight into the mind of a man forced to go to war‚ but he explained his argument with such eloquence and passion that I found myself thoroughly intrigued. The way he describes having to face the draft and the terrifying obstacles that seemed to crop up out of nowhere‚ really makes me think and try to put myself in his position. I would not know
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