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    Literature is a reflection of the truth. The Things They carried portrayed the Vietnam war accurately. O’Brien took us deep into the emotions of the veterans and it made the readers sympathize with them. O’Brien wrote about the raw emotions of the veterans and that made readers truly sympathize for the veterans. Veterans go through an unexplainable experience that average civilians can never understand. That makes it hard for veterans to talk about their experiences to an extent that someone will

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    A time; a moment of examples of friendship/kindness that had a significant impact on a character/person or characters/people‚ as it helped someone through a difficult time. Was shown in the two books that i read‚ “Kaffir boy” and “The Things They Carried”. To begin with. Kaffir boy shows a wide spread of the friendship and kindness throughout the book considering how he is dealt with his family life‚ his surrounding in Johannesburg and how living in a 3rd world-poor country has affected him emotionally

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    The Things They Carried‚ a novel by Tim O’Brien‚ is a collection of war stories told from a fictional Vietnam veteran’s perspective. O’Brien elucidates the physical and emotional barrier war creates between men and women to help demonstrate the frustration soldiers have with women in war. O’Brien illustrates the physical and emotional barrier Vietnam creates between men and women. The letters soldiers write to their girlfriends in the United States demonstrate the physical barrier between the two

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    and unguarded) was suddenly gone; when you land‚ everything you see is different. Would you feel a loss? Within the works of The Things They Carried‚ Girl‚ Interrupted‚ and “Letter from Marion Kempner”‚ the characters experience loss in several ways. The central theme in these three works is a sense of loss. Tim O’Brien‚ the author of The Things They Carried‚ experienced many instances of this feeling‚ particularly with losing relationships and innocence. He writes about his friend Jimmy

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    For thousands of years‚ stories have been told. Either by word of mouth‚ or through books and movies. The Things They Carried has a recurring theme of storytelling. It appears in the book in more places than one. And each one of the appearances seems to say something different about how stories are told‚ or how they should be told. In the chapter ¨How To Tell A True War Story¨ for example‚ the narrator is talking about how a war story should be told and what it should consist of. He says on page

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    In my artwork‚ I have depicted the image of soldier using objects of war. The objects I have chosen are not only used in war‚ as cited in American Sniper‚ The Things They Carried‚ and Nick Niday‚ but they depict an image of the effects of war on the soldier. The technical components of my image includes the colors‚ the objects of war chosen‚ and position of the body. These technical components assist the overall message of my piece which was to visually represent how the objects of war and war itself

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    Ashley Guevara ENGL 2335-01 Professor Benavides December 9‚ 2013 O達rien痴 The Things They Carried: The Man underneath the Helmet The American Flag has always been representative of the United States of America and the freedom it stands for. One could even call it a symbol‚ not only of freedom‚ but of the American people. There are men and women who use this to motivate themselves as they are miles away from their families‚ fighting for the freedom this flag symbolizes. There are many symbols

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    The book that I have recently read was “The things they carried”. The book was written by Tim O’Brien who was once a US soldier. The book is about the Vietnam War which was started around 1955. Tim himself was a soldier fighting in the war who had survived. He writes the story fictionally but the names of the characters are of real people. The book is a series of short stories and the situation in the story reflects horror of the war. There are three areas of conflicts that occur in the stories

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    can never forget. And he doesn’t want to forget. And he doesn’t want anyone else to forget. He wants the world to understand the war‚ and the toll it had. For that reason‚ he writes novels and stories chronicling the war‚ specifically‚ The Things They Carried‚ a war novel which contains a collection of short stories he had previously published. Through O’Brien’s use of commentary‚ self reflection and exaggeration‚ the reader comes to understand the moral complexities

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    Serial Killer Profile CJ-490-001 Ted Bundy Bibliography 4/7/14 TED BUNDY In this profile I will be discussing Ted Bundy and his life‚ and what things may have lead him to commit such atrocities in his later years which would overall come to an end with him being placed on death row and executed. By doing this I will have to reflect on multiple portions of his life by reviewing his childhood‚ behavior patterns‚ childhood issues that lead to future problems as an adult‚ his social life‚ and

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