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    Ozymandias Tone

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    As humans‚ we often think about power‚ but never think about how lonely you will be with it. The poem Ozymandias‚ written by Percy Shelley‚ is a poem about political power. Shelly uses a mocking tone to describe the desire of achievement of morality while criticizing the arrogance of Ozymandias for wanting dominance and demand praise. The setting is complex in this poem; despite that‚ there is a two people point of view illustrated in the situation. The traveler describes an antique land while Ozymandias

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    platoon and evenmore so when lives are at risk. Often time loyalty is shown in the form of‚ “no man left behind” or sustaining the memory of a fallen brother. The the realistic novel “ The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien‚ loyaty is embodied by the overall novel and the events within it. “The Things They Carried” a retelling of the Vietnam War centered around Lieutenant Jim Cross and his company. In the relling of these men’s lives‚ the ordeal they went through and their deaths‚ keeps the memories

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    Tim O’Brien’s novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ revolves around the frequent theme of courage however‚ his perception of courage is ignorant considering the actual meaning of courage. O’Brien uses courage as an antidote to the physical and moral weakness in the soldiers of Vietnam creating character obsession over his interchangeable perception of courage and weakness. Not going to war when drafted is perceived as weak‚ but O’Brien believes that going to war when one wants to flee is Canada is arguable

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    always remains‚ whose war are we fighting? In Tim O’Brien’s short story "The Things They Carried" there are many examples of the psychological loss of innocence of a young soldier. Similarly‚ in Louise Erdrich’s "The Red Convertible‚" the reader becomes acquainted with the effects of war after returning home. In both works the trauma that a young soldier experiences is made painfully real. In essence‚ each soldier "carried ghosts" (O’Brien 1107)‚ while painstakingly walking through the elephant grass

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    In “The Things They Carried‚” a short story by Tim O’Brien‚ the reader is able to see‚ in great detail‚ each of the characters ways of dealing with the atrocities of the Vietnam War by what they choose to carry; how symbolically they use these objects as a means for remembrance of what they have left behind‚ to escape what they deal with each day‚ and for some‚ a false sense of security and/or control over the violence and death that surrounds them. Each soldier in the story “humps” an object

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    Guilty Feelings At the beginning of the book The Things They Carried‚ author Tim O’Brien says‚ “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief‚ terror‚ love‚ longing - these were intangibles‚ but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity‚ they had tangible weight” (Tim O’Brien). Soldiers in the Vietnam war carried home with them memories of ghosts‚ ghosts of people they killed‚ villages burned‚ and their own brethren dying in horrifying ways. Tim O’Brien tells about

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    Cole Ruch ENC II D.Chapman April 22‚ 2013 Literary analysis #1- The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien This prolific and award winning story by Tim O’Brien‚ focuses on the hardships faced by soldiers during the Vietnam War. O’Brien chronicles the lives of several soldiers as they battle through the jungles of the Vietnam. They story gives the readers the ability to go through the solders inability to accept the reality they are facing. The title of the story plays an important function in

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    book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien contains various literal and figurative meanings to the term carry. O’Brien includes different form implied to the word carry. In the beginning of the chapter he begins to list what each soldier carried with him literally. O’Brien also includes what each soldier carries with him figuratively‚ what weighs them down. Each item that they carry gives the reader insight of their personality and emotions. The chapter The Things they carried gave the reader

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    To A Mouse Tone

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    Robert Burns‚ author and speaker of “To a Mouse”‚ reveals a deeper meaning of mankind and the relationship between him and a mouse. The poem begins with Burns plowing a field and finding a mouse after destroying its nest. The poem’s apologetic tone was introduced during a passage located directly after Burns finds the mouse and can be seen through Burns’ use of diction‚ rhythm‚ and vocab. The passage shows the audience a view of Burn’s perspective of not only his relationship with the mouse but with

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    studied here “The Things They Carried”. Author Tim O’Brien was thrown in the middle of the Vietnam War when he was drafted. During his tour of duty he experienced very gruesome and lonely things. O’Brien told the reader the things that these soldiers brought along with them

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