English III (B) The Leader Without Leadership During the war‚ there must be a leader who is responsible for the whole team and is able to lead a group of people. In the novel‚ The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien shows many different kinds of leaders during the Vietnam War. Jimmy Cross is one of the leaders in the book. He represents the failure as being a lieutenant of Alpha Company. As being a failure‚ he often gets distracts on a girl named Martha‚ who is his unrequested college
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shame and loneliness. In The Things They Carried it is clear that most of the soldiers in the war do not come back with a sense of pride or honor. Most come back wishing they had never gone at all. Tim O’Brien reveals that because Vietnam precipitated such traumatic experiences‚ his storytelling is a great way to cope with his shame and loneliness‚ emphasizing that the war experience is not one of patriotism and heroism‚ but one of loneliness and guilt. The "things" part of the title represents
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As an individual’s‚ we carried something in our lives that meant something that could be a small object or something inside us. In “The Things They Carried‚” many outlook on the things the soldiers carried or dealt. It shows us the many reasons why and how the soldiers possessed these things individually and how it was important for them. This doesn’t happen only in the war but in a daily day‚ we carry something special that has meaning. It could be any small object that tells something about us
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They Things They Carried English 111 2pm Tim O’Brien authored the novel “The Things They Carried” a novel filled with short stories about the Vietnam War. The first passage in the collection lists the numerous things the solders in O’Brien’s platoon carried. Varying from weapons‚ to thoughts of loved ones back home. Distorting the line between the tangible and intangible‚ O’Brien writes about the things like bibles‚ pantyhose‚ moccasins‚ and pictures. Things the men carried tangibly‚ but are
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Chad Ehrlich History Tim O’Brien Essay Tim O’Brien’s‚ The Things They Carried‚ contained different memoirs that truly bring the actions of war to life for the reader. Obrien’s book expresses the real feelings a solider faces while getting ready to go into war‚ in war‚ and post war. Through his vivid descriptions the reader is able to emphasize with the emotional burdens and stresses solders must go through while on duty. We are able to observe the different coping mechanisms solders must endure
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Many people tend to overlook the great obstacles and combats that our soldiers put themselves into in order to keep us safe‚but have they looked deeper into the minds of each soldier and the story they carry. In the book The Things They Carried Tim O`Brien helps convey the true characteristics of Lieutenant Jimmy Cross throughout not only the Vietnam War but through the mental battle he suffers everyday dealing with the sorrows he carries. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross‚ was the leader of
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appropriate quotes. Joseph Conrad and Francis Ford Coppola both provide through different conventions a distinctive insight into the Interior. Joseph Conrad author of “Heart of Darkness”‚ and Francis Coppola’s appropriation of “Heart of Darkness”‚ “Apocalypse Now” use their respective protagonists Marlow and Willard placing them in a didactic journey into the unknown interior that proves to be the heart of man‚ the “Heart of Darkness”. Through the metaphysical journey that both Marlow and Benjamin Willard
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In the book titled‚ The Things They Carried‚ the author‚ Tim O ’ Brien‚ depicts a world where traumatic memories and crushing emotional baggage are far heavier than any combat pack or assortment of weapons that has ever burdened the back of a soldier. The author‚ O ’Brien‚ explores the physical and emotional burdens that the soldiers of the Vietnam War "hump" or carry with them. The author portrays the things the soldiers carry throughout the story as both literally tangible items and figuratively
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“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien Due Friday‚ October 31‚ 2014 @ 11:59 p.m. on Schoology Questions for Discussion and Style & Structure or aguilar.english@gmail.com. *Please type your answers. Complete sentences and thoughts is always expected. Questions for Discussion 1. The story begins with a paragraph about Jimmy Cross and his relationship with Martha. What does Martha represent to Cross? Why might it be significant that Cross obsesses about whether or not she is a virgin? How
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PHI 101 September 3‚ 2012 Journal 1 This week our assignment was to read some fictional literature called “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. At first I thought this was going to be another boring assignment for another class but this book caught my interest quickly because even though it was considered fictional Tim O’Brien really did go to war; the Vietnam War to be more specific and he told his stories od what it was like to be drafted and all the horrific processes of being a young
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