"That must have been a really big fall‚ I swear you could have said that I am in a con... concorporatio." "Oh dulcis Rosa‚" he runs his hand through my hair‚ my head instinctively leans into his hand. "You must have hit your head pretty hard gražus‚ it’s okay you will be okay." All of a sudden my eyes are fighting their way back to the darkness and silence of the night. My body tries to fight the urge but my eyes have a mind of their own‚ and they drift in the darkness. When I finally succumb to
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and War Stories Almost everyone has lied at one point in their lives. Some lies may be big and others small but they still tell the lie. Most people only lie to make their stories sound better. For example‚ war veterans love to tell their stories and the stories they tell are usually exciting and wouldn’t need to lie when they are telling their stories or at least one would believe they are not lying about the stories they are telling. According to Tim O’Brien in one of his many stories he clearly
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How do you decide what is true and what is false? In war the line blurs even more. We hear war stories and wonder about the truth of these stories. We love to believe the stories of heroism and bravery. Now how do we know that these stories are real and not created propaganda? The Things They Carried by Tim O?Brien is a fiction book that shines some light on war stories. This complex book focuses on a complex war. The Vietnam War was complex for the reasons surrounding it. Some of the reasons were;
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Told from a third person’s perspective “How to Tell a True War Story” seems to focus on the death of a friend and good times they had together during the Vietnam War. It begins with an absolute statement that the story is true then a letter is sent to a relative of the deceased that receives no reply. It goes on to tell us the story of war and all the complexities it holds. The author points out numerous times that real war stories have no moral or life lesson like those in novels or movies even
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Reaction Paper 3: South Africa is one on the most controversial countries in the world. It is located in the southern part‚ at the bottom of the continent of Africa as its name indicates. The country is known to shelter a diversity of languages and cultures. The country went through many violent events opposing the white minority dominating over all other races. Fortunately‚ a man named Nelson Mandela will change the course of history and impact Africa and the world in a great way. The role of
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life and many others‚ or will you not tell and lose them all together. What would you do‚ would you tell or not to tell? The author of this text is Mary Kate Frank and she has many reasons and explanations to support why you should tell. Although there are some readers of ´´To Tell or Not To Tell´´ that have argued that you will be called a tattletale if you tell an adult that something bad is going to happen‚ closer examination shows that if you don’t tell an adult or call 911‚ someone could get
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The main idea for my short story began with a very simplistic and basic colour idea which led to the slow development of two main characters named Red and Blue. The idea flourished from the very basic idea to a slightly more complex one when the idea that Red would be colourless and unidentified in his world. Red was clear and transparent and weakly searching for a colour and was not able to feel complete until he met Blue. With Blue he grew to have slight tinges of colour‚ and it made him feel strong
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How to Tell a True War Story The Irony of Truth in Tim O’Brien’s "How to Tell a True War Story" "This is true." (O’Brien‚ 420) with this simple statement which also represents a first‚ three-word introductory paragraph to Tim O’Brien’s short story‚ "How to Tell a True War Story"‚ the author reveals the main problem of what will follow. "Truth" when looked up in a dictionary‚ we would probably find definitions similar to sincerity and honesty on the one hand‚ and correctness‚ accuracy or reality
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manipulate the reader from seeing the actual truth. The author talks to the audience in a way that connects with them through the words and stories told in these essays. The use of diction has the power to persuade the audience to a specific side of believability. In How to Tell A True War Story Tim O’Brien goes on about all the indications of what a true war story is. “Its difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.” When Lemon got blown up it seemed that he was lifted up by the
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the Christmas song. Even the first line is almost verbatim‚ I just changed ‘frightful’ to ‘raining’. I’m not much of a poet but I never really knew how to start a story. I definitely wasn’t going to start with “Once upon a time…” because this isn’t an old fairytale love story. This is better‚ this is real-life shit. This is the story of Innaz and that was the first time I ever noticed her. I entered what was supposed to be a small class of illiterates. Illiterate in Arabic‚ that is. It started
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