Symbolism: An artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas‚ emotions‚ and states of mind.Example: “…hard to find any real emotion. It simply wasn’t there. After that long night in the rain‚ I’d seemed to grow cold inside‚ all the illusions gone‚ all the old ambitions and hopes for myself sucked away into the mud.” “…Unwrap the letters‚ hold them with the tips of his fingers‚ and spend the last hour of light pretending. He
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A. Park The Things They Carried The symbols in Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” are essential to understanding the soldiers and their lives during the Vietnam War. At the opening of the story‚ Lieutenant Jimmy Cross would dig into his foxhole and read the letters while imagining romance with Martha; however‚ at the end of the story after the death of Ted Lavender‚ he “crouched at the bottom of his foxhole and burned Martha’s letters” (402). The inner feelings of Cross would be mistakenly
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coping mechanisms used by the members of the Alpha Company in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried supports the research on the various successful and destructive ways that soldiers use to cope during a war‚ and ultimately how the book was a mechanism for O’Brien to save himself.
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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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CHARACTER in The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien The narrator - Ultimately‚ The Things They Carried is more about its narrator than anybody else‚ and although it feels at times like a book about war‚ it is ultimately a book about the narrator’s coming to terms with his past. Although the narrator is frequently called "Tim‚" or "O’Brien‚" the author and the narrator are not entirely the same person. Unlike O’Brien’s work If I Die in a Combat Zone (Box Me Up and Ship Me Home)‚ The Things They Carried
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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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The Things They Carried in “The Things They Carried‚” by Tim O’Brien In “The Things They Carried‚” by Tim O’Brien the theme of “carrying” both physical and emotional objects by the main characters can be found in the novel. While these men carry the same standard physical army gear‚ they differentiate with personal tangible and intangible items. From Lieutenant Cross’s responsibility of his men‚ to Henry Dobbin’s girlfriend’s pantyhose for its magic‚ each man faced the war with these things attached
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The historic fiction book “The things they Carried” is a marvelous book that melds a bunch of short stories together to create a unique flowing narrative. The many characters throughout the book give life to the harsh land of Vietnam‚ adding color to the palette of brown‚ fatigue green‚ and constant rain/blue. Characters like Kiowa‚ who brought compassion to Alpha Company‚ Rat Kiley‚ who brought sanity to Alpha Company before he went mad himself‚ Mitchell Sanders‚ who brought a form of moral code
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In the story‚ “The Things They Carried” the author describes the many tangible and intangible things the Lieutenant and soldiers carried in war. As a highschooler‚ I too‚ carry tangible and intangible things with me. Just like the characters in the story‚ these things weigh me down‚ either physically or mentally‚ distracting me from the pressures from school‚ but I learn to deal with them and keep moving forward. Some of the tangible things I carry in my backpack on a daily basis are my notebooks
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The story of “The Things They Carried” took place during the Vietnam War. The author‚ Tim O’Brien describes each character by the things they carried. All of them carried necessary things which could help them go through the war – some were common‚ some were different‚ and depending on the soldier. Lieutenant Cross carried photographs of Martha‚ the girl with whom he fell in love. Due to an unclear relationship and a great distance‚ the more Lieutenant Cross thinks about Martha‚ the more he suffers
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