Merriam Webster dictionary‚ or by the opinion of an English Professor. Humanity is defined by the individual‚ and so the focus here is on the Kurt Vonnegut’s‚ and Tim O’Brien’s definition of humanity‚ which is characterized by human spirit‚ heart‚ and empathy. In Slaughterhouse-Five and The Things They Carried both Kurt Vonnegut and Tim O’Brien describe the destruction of humanity caused by war. However‚ Vonnegut highlights how powerless in war leads to decimation of humanity within a solider‚ while
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In the novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ the narrator is revealed to be obedient yet a sensitive character. We see Tim O’Brien as an obedient person in the chapter Ambush. He explains how it was just instinct for him to throw the grenade at the man. “I had already pulled the pin on a grenade. I had come up to a crouch. It was entirely automatic.” (page 126). This quote shows that when he saw the man‚ with a weapon‚ walking on the trail‚ he only did what he was trained to do which was to the man. However
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There are many ways in which the characters and the setting go together. By knowing where and when a story takes place‚ we are able to better understand what each character is going through. In the short story “The Things They Carried” written by Tim O’Brien‚ O’Brien does a great job describing what each character is feeling and going through‚ both emotionally and physically. In the story we are introduced to seventeen young American soldiers who are in the middle of the Vietnam War. “They are
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Writing Prompt 1 The book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien contains various literal and figurative meanings to the term carry. O’Brien includes different form implied to the word carry. In the beginning of the chapter he begins to list what each soldier carried with him literally. O’Brien also includes what each soldier carries with him figuratively‚ what weighs them down. Each item that they carry gives the reader insight of their personality and emotions. The chapter The Things
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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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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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