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    connected to an office with eight other people. Anne Frank wrote a diary that contains internal and external conflict.Anne Frank internal conflict is that she’s maturing and she has no privacy to do anything‚ and family. Anne Frank also has the external conflict she is being haunted for being a jew. Anne Frank’s biggest internal conflict is that she is maturing and has little to no privacy.She is now questioning things that are more important to humanity. Where the family is hiding‚ there is no privacy

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    single man. How can we really know what the truth is? In Tim O’Brien “the things they carried’ what really defines a war story being true? Its never moral‚ the uncertainty‚ or is it the horror and honor? The things that happen in war are never moral. War has a dirty bloody‚ gorier‚ and violent side to it. Well that’s what war is? "War is nuts war is fun‚ war is thrilling‚ and war is drudgery war makes you a

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    Wharton p.131-176 Internal and external conflict Archer Newland faces a huge internal conflict with having to marry May and being in love with Ellen at the same time. This conflict is never resolved because all around Newland his friends including Ellen‚ have made everything so confusing to him that he ends up feeling lonely all over again. Newland doesn’t want to be scandalous because it wouldn’t be proper to show his true feelings towards Ellen. However Newland hints them in many ways. When

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    Doyle by Avi‚ so far‚ Charlotte is facing many external and internal conflicts. Those conflicts will most likely help her while on her journey to America. One example of an internal conflict is when Charlotte faced was confused on who to trust on the ship while sailing. Captain Jaggery‚ who’s in a ‘higher’ class‚ or Zachariah‚ her ‘final friend’‚ on page twenty-four and page forty-four. Secondly‚ Charlotte confronted external conflicts as well‚ such as the fact that she was the only girl on the

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    Greg Bennett 3/18/13 Required close Analytic Reading Authors Stylistic Choices: Enhancing Analysis Using Rhetorical Grammar The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien 1. What is the narrator’s tone in the opening sentence? Describe how the use of the word butterfly affects the reader’s understanding of the description that follows. The narrator’s tone in the opening sentence is of peace and or prosperity. The narrator tricks the reader by using the noun butterfly to show beauty‚ calmness

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    that guy Mark Fossie who shipped his girl over to Vietnam to spend time with him‚ I couldn’t believe it. He says he saw the whole thing‚ and that he was there when everything happened‚ but I doubt it; Rat is the type of guy who would lie to get his story more interesting. But anyhow‚ I agreed for him to tell me the story even though I was very sceptical about the whole thing. It almost seemed like he was fooling me. So I crossed my arms‚ and let him amuse me with his anecdote. Although

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    curiosity of which portions of the book are actually based on O’ Brien’s life. This quote looks at the “fictional” Tim O’Brien’s view of war stories. He says that memory doesn’t always serve a person well when telling war stories‚ as there are some things that didn’t actually happen‚ they merely seem to. The same affect occurs when the reader is unclear as to what actually happened to real Tim O’Brien‚ and what was simply fabricated for entertainment purposes. The novel becomes even more like a war

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    convinced himself that his thoughts of Martha distracted him to a point where he led his own men astray‚ resulting in Lavender’s sudden death. Cross doesn’t want men to perish because of his own incompetence and recklessness‚ so he sacrifices the one thing loved – Martha‚ for the sake of his troops. Cross emerges from a man obsessed about returning home to his beloved Martha‚ to a man who sacrificed his own desires for the well being of others. “He would accept the blame for what had happened to Ted

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    Kimberly LaChaine Period 2 January 3‚ 2017 The Effects of War The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien represents the epitome of dehumanization that war inflicts on people. Each character is involved in a short story that makes up the entire novel; their different traits make up not only their personality but their entire persona and how their social role contributed to the overall message. The characters participation in the war leads to many tragic fates such as absurdity‚ trauma

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    The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien will be used to explain violence in literature.Violence can show many different things in literature‚ for example‚ how cruel people can be. It can be towards a friend‚ an enemy or even oneself. Not all violence is intentional‚ one may not have a choice when harming one’s life. In the novel The Things They Carried‚ there are many examples of violence that contribute to the reader’s’ emotions. Violence in literature can involve many things such

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