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    or educational level because it could be a wide range of individuals that take notice of the writing for different purposes. The audience may know about the topic discussed in the article if they are familiar with the offer but on the other hand someone like me that is not familiar with this specific author and writing style I do not know anything about his work or the article read. Some may not support war so they may be more apt to not continue reading after a short introduction of the topic. Others

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    Ideal (Female) Reader In Tim O’brien’s The Things They Carried: Why Should Real Women Play?." Massachusetts Review 43.4 (2002): 602. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Mar. 2013. Summary: In this article‚ the author examines why “The Role Of The Ideal (Female) Reader” in “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien because this “war fiction is usually less concerned with women than with ritual and test “make you a man” (Smiley). Pamela Smiley begins disusing about Rat Kiley writing to Curt Lemon’s sister

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    “The Things They Carried” By Tim O’ Brien This short story is about a young lieutenant that learns the hard way that war can cause serious consequences. While reading this story I got really bored with the way the author names every single thing they carried. I honestly didn’t see the importance of knowing exactly what they were carrying. It was kind of just annoying to me until I read the story all the way through and I realized how important it really was to name all the things the soldiers

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    Writing Prompt 1 In the book “The Things They Carried” the author shows how the soldiers use materialistic objects to work in the harsh environment while also carrying burdens because of death‚ isolation and shock. The author uses different levels of ambiguity when using the word carried. In the book the word carries spans from physically carrying objects to mentally carrying burdens. Also the character of the soldiers that are introduced in the first chapter are unraveled throughout the book as

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    10/10/2012 ENG 112-Cox Essay Prompt 2 What Were The Things They Carried An author commonly uses literary devices in their text to both interest the audience‚ and to create a bigger depth to their work. In “The Things They Carried”‚ there are a few different elements Tim O’Brien uses to captivate his audience. Imagery‚ symbolism‚ and theme were a few of the devices he chose to use in this work. Throughout the story‚ he explains what the men carried‚ and by doing so‚ created a depth to this story that

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    “The Things They Carried: The American Experience” In the story "The Things They Carried‚" Tim O ’Brien talks a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War. He does this by describing the items that each of them carries with him during the march. The things that the soldiers carry with them are both physical and mental items and what these things are depends upon the soldier. They carry the basic "necessities" for survival and the bare minimum to make life as civilized as possible. But they also carry

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    The Things They Carried‚ written by Tim O’brien is a novel‚ which depicts the Vietnamese war‚ specifically experiences of the soldiers during and after the war. Youth is portrayed in the novel as a significant factor‚ which influences not only the idea represented in the novel but also the author himself. Although this is no explicitly stated throughout the book‚ there are a couple of characters that are more significant to Tim O’brien than others. These characters are Linda and Kathleen. By analyzing

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    In “The Things They Carried”‚ Tim O’Brien’s characters suffer this reality time and time again in the Vietnam War. A war that costed the life of thousands of American servicemen. Men who suffered horrific conditions and watched their close friends die in devastating combat and treacherous terrain. It could be easy to call the men who fought in The Vietnam War the most mentally and physically damaged combat veterans in United States history. O’Brien captures this in “The Things They Carried”‚ a book

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    In “The Things They Carried”‚ by Tim O’Brien‚ the author uses symbolism in order to show the soldiers emotional and physical burdens they carry. For example‚ Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from this woman he loved named Martha‚ everywhere he went in his backpack. Also‚ another example of the symbolism‚ Kiowa‚ another soldier from the story‚ carried around a New Testament that his father gave to him. And the final example of symbolism is when soldier Ted Lavender died‚ Jimmy Cross was emotionally

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    Adam Torres 9-9-13 C-1/2 Journal Notes can be defined‚ as pieces of literature that allow a person to better understand what is at hand. Therefore‚ in the book “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien‚ it is no coincidence as to why he entitled chapter sixteen “Notes”. O’Brien uses this chapter as a note to help broaden the readers understanding of the books purpose‚ and more specifically‚ what O’Brien is really trying to convey instead of a mere war story. It is for this reason that I have

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