and knocking on wood surfaces to ensure continued prosperity or avoid tragedy are examples of commonplace superstitions that have permeated society since ancient times. Superstition has had different meanings in different cultures and epochs. One thing binding these meanings together is that they are usually negative and superstition is a concept defined principally by its self-declared opponents. A second is that superstition is defined as the opposite of something praiseworthy and usually true
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oneself‚ have always been omnipresent. From cracking O’Brien to etching a painful scar in my mind‚ pressure from expectations has always led people to make significant decisions‚ yet not all of these decisions are necessarily good. In The Things They Carried‚ O’Brien is faced with the major decision of whether he should partake in the Vietnam War. While making the decision‚ O’Brien mentions how “All those eyes on me- the town‚ the whole universe- and I couldn’t risk the embarrassment. It was as
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the soldiers in The Things They Carried? The Things They Carried is a book set in Massachusetts but the core of the book is based in Vietnam. A group of Soldiers go to war and Tim O’Brien decides to document the true effects of war but beneath his words‚ there were a lot of factors and double meaning to them. The motif ‘Shame” played a huge part in every character in this book as it was a trait they all shared in common Shame in this context is not necessarily a bad thing as with the power of
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In The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien uses many such techniques to provide more depth to his book. Four literary techniques used by Tim O’Brien are symbolism‚ pathetic fallacy‚ irony‚ and juxtaposition. One literary technique prominent in The Things They Carried‚ particularly in the story by the same name‚ is symbolism. Throughout this story‚ O’Brien mentions all the things that the soldiers carry with them‚ both physical and emotional. However‚ the physical items that the men carried is more
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In Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” the raw realities of the cruel and unforgiving Vietnam War are authentically depicted. Just in the first five paragraphs sex‚ narcotics‚ and death‚ largely controversial topics in this country‚ are reasonably apparent. One character‚ Lieutenant Jimmy Cross‚ may be physically present but conveys every sign of distraction. He seems to be in a more copacetic quarter of his mind. In this quarter he finds elation and comfort when he thinks of the (so he thinks
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Analysis of “God Sees the Truth‚ but Waits” by Leo Tolstoy Analyzed by Latif Amin Biography: Leo Tolstoy was born in Tula Province‚ Russia‚ on September 9‚ 1828. His mother died when he was only two years old. After Tolstoy’s father died in1837‚ he was cared by his relatives. He attended Kazan University for three years but he never could complete it because of joining to Russian army on active duty. However‚ being a soldier could not stop his desire to write literary plays and during his duty
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Exercise 1 The Things They Carried EXCERPT ① 1. How is the term common secret typical of the phrasing of this whole passage? How is run or freeze or hide also typical of the excerpt’s phrasing? In which sentences does O’Brien’s phrasing seem especially clear‚ direct‚ and simple‚ and why is such phrasing so effective? How would you describe the tone of this passage? How might the tone easily have been quite different? For instance‚ how could it have been highly emotional and melodramatic? Why
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Dialectical Journals of The Things They Carried Idea/Stylistic aspect | Quotation | Response | Truth | “Among the men in Alpha Company‚ Rat had a reputation for exaggeration and overstatement‚ a compulsion to rev up the facts…it was normal procedure to discount sixty or seventy percent of anything he had to say.” | The narrator‚ in making a seemingly offhanded comment about Rat’s tendency to lie‚ reveals another major point of the novel: the truth of a particular story is differing from person
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Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried” is set in Vietnam during the Vietnam War‚ and describes a soldier’s burden by listing what they carried and portraying scenes in a war. Critics have debated over the classification of O’Brien’s story. The major dispute is over whether “The Things They Carried” is appropriately classified as war literature. Although Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried” is fictitious‚ it is war literature since it conveys the physical and emotional
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