Phil Costner English – Rough Draft In the novel‚ The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ he vividly depicts the situations of war-life in Vietnam using very interesting characters. Though some of the characters he uses are not actually real people‚ but just made up to serve as symbols in his story. In some cases these characters serve more to the story through their symbolism rather that their character. The three characters who embody this the most are Kiowa‚ Mary Anne Bell‚ and Kathleen.
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In several stories from The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien deals with the way that American soldiers of the Vietnam War related to being "in country‚" or out of their own country and halfway across the world. O’Brien creates the concept that Vietnam‚ and the war there‚ is of "another world" throughout his stories. None of the soldiers he writes about feel at home in Vietnam‚ and none of them successfully adapt emotionally to being so far from home. O’Brien subtly introduces the concept of
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In the novel The Things They Carried‚ author Tim O’Brien offers the “happy ending” described by Fay Weldon through his own “spiritual reassessment and moral reconciliation.” While the novel itself is not a series of happy memories or events‚ the telling of them allows the author to come to terms with the loss of his innocence and his own limitations. As the author closes‚ he finally concludes that while his war-time experiences change him from the person he once was‚ telling stories is the way he
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an example of a simile. Similes use like and as to make explicit comparisons between unlike things‚ such as eyes and stars. Metaphor Her eyes were pools of liquid light. Again‚ her eyes are literally human eyes. Figuratively‚ they are being compared to pools of liquid light. However‚ the comparison is implied‚ not stated. This is an example of a metaphor. Unlike similes‚ metaphors compare unlike things without explicitly stating the comparison with “like” or “as.” Personification Her eyes followed
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All Quiet on the Western Front: Assignment #3: Focus on Chapter 4 1. Paul feels alone in battle and his only friend and family seems to be mother earth. He finds comfort and protection with earth since he’s alone in battle and there’s nothing else protecting him except for earth’s materials like bushes and trees hiding him form the enemy. Like a mother would protect her son. I’m not sure if this has much to do with the Oedipus Complex but since Paul is loving the earth ever so passionately he
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Au contraire‚ in the West‚ the war was fought in France and Belgium where a feckless stalemate cost both sides heavily. Trench warfare quickly came to represent the Western front as both armies constructed elaborate trench networks‚ thus causing the deadlock for most of the duration of the war. The most common cause of battle casualties when in trenches was enemy artillery fire and to make matters worse; troops were not entirely safe from their artillery fire. The constant bombardment of artillery
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Hampshire. When he was finished reading the letters‚ he would read‚ “Love Martha.” He wished that her saying love meant that she loved him as much as he loved he loved her‚ but he knew that it did not mean what he pretended it to be. After reading all of the letters‚ “He would sometimes taste the envelope flaps‚ knowing that her tongue had been there” (O’Brien 2). This is only one of the many excessive thought he would do because he loved Martha so much. Instead of commanding his men to be on night
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Charlie was a molestation victim as a child‚ a fact he repressed until urged to enter into a sexual situation he could not deal with. While his breakdown provides the epilogue for the book and places him into a mental hospital‚ he comes out of the whole thing as a supposed fuller individual who is more self actualized than he would have been without realizing the sexual trauma of his youth or‚ more drastically‚
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Erich Maria Remarque demonstrates‚ through the character of Paul Baumer‚ how World War I obliterates almost an entire generation of men. In the novel‚ All Quiet on the Western Front‚ these men‚ including Paul‚ no longer have a place in normal life and are incapable of relating with former generations. This is the result of the early involvement with the war‚ which lead to what is called the “lost generation”. Youth can be defined as the early period of existence and growth. These important years
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Julian Bangash All Quiet on the Western Front‚ a soldier’s bloody account of World War I‚ was written by Erich Maria Remarque in 1929. It was first made into a movie in 1930‚ and then re-made in 1979 directed by Delbert Mann. All Quiet on the Western Front is the story of a young German named Paul Baumer who is drafted into the German Imperial Army along with many of his high school friends. They are sent to the battlefield on the German western front seeking glory and adventure only to discover
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