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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about yourself.” In the quote moore describes the power that storytelling has on people. He explains to us that just because there is lies in the story‚ that doesn’t mean that we cannot take something away from it. Similarly in the novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ the author‚ Tim O’Brien‚ uses stories to tell us about his time serving in the war in Vietnam. And even though most of these stories are not entirely true‚ that does not mean we cannot learn from them. Storytelling is a tool that allows soldiers
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Dialectical Journals of The Things They Carried Idea/Stylistic aspect | Quotation | Response | Truth | “Among the men in Alpha Company‚ Rat had a reputation for exaggeration and overstatement‚ a compulsion to rev up the facts…it was normal procedure to discount sixty or seventy percent of anything he had to say.” | The narrator‚ in making a seemingly offhanded comment about Rat’s tendency to lie‚ reveals another major point of the novel: the truth of a particular story is differing from person
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Connor Bickford Prof Guy ENC1102 A1 7 Mar 2013 Literary Analysis of “The Things They Carried” “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien depicts a platoon of soldiers serving in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was fought during the 1960/70’s in the country of Vietnam. It was an unusually brutal war and many veterans suffered for years after from their traumatic experiences. The author tells of all the things they carried from weapons to the emotional burden of wartime. Short memories are recalled
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are “Boys” by Rich Moody and “The Things they Carried” by Tim O’Brien. “Boys” doesn’t use any paragraphs‚ and is told through the repeated words “Boys enter the house…” (Moody). The piece true there story of two twin boys who grow up as normal‚ mischievous boys. As they grow up‚ they go through hardships and drift apart. It isn’t until they exit the house after the paramedics take their father’s body or are they “no longer boys” (Moody). “The Things they Carried” features the story of an American
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“The Things They Carried” In the short story “The Things They Carried”‚ Tim O’Brien wrote about the experience of war and the feelings young soldiers felt during their long days of travel. During the story he keeps referring back to the things the soldiers chose to carry in their packs. Some of these items included necessity items like grenades and ammunition‚ but they also carry sentimental items like love letters and pictures. These items help the reader better understand each person for
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Smiley‚ Pamela. "The Role Of The 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
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The role of ignorance in the novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ pertains around the idea of life and death and the way the soldiers become affected by certain events. Most notably‚ Azar is ignorant of his surroundings. He views Vietnam as a game‚ as he is always messing around and being immature. For example‚ “Azar shrugged. After a second he reached out and clapped [Tim] on the shoulder‚ not roughly but not gently either. ‘What’s real?’ he said. ‘Eight months in fantasyland‚ it tends to blur the line
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John Sumpter Priceless Objects In “The Things They Carried” Tim O’Brien brings fiction and autobiography together in this story about the Vietnam War. O’Brien also uses a very unique style in order to give the reader more understanding in the value of the objects the soldiers carry by using the repetition of the word and instead of using commas. Although this style may seem glorified from an artistic point of view‚ the audience might find themselves skipping ahead the long repetitious lists. Luckily
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Themes and Dialogue of O’Brien in The Things They Carried War has done many horrible things to many people throughout time all over the world. War experience filled with death‚ suspense‚ and constant fear has swept through millions and millions of people who are still scared by the horrific experience. To some so horrific that a normal life‚ post war‚ was almost unbearable. But some were able to take the experience and share it to the world. Tim O’Brien is a perfect example of this. O’Brien was
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