of a story an example of this is Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried". As the story goes on it shows not only the literal meaning of what they carried but also symbolically the burdens that they had mentally. In the literal sense O’Brien talks about what different members of a platoon in Vietnam carried. This helps him to move to a more symbolic sense at the end of the story. He starts by talking about necessities and slowly moves on to what they carried to remind them that there was a world
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7 June 2013 In A.S. Byatt’s The Thing in the Forest‚ it seems as though Primrose has moved on from the childhood trauma to which she and Penny were exposed. The two girls grow up in very dissimilar ways: Penny finding ways to mask her trauma‚ and Primrose extroverting herself to cope with it. The text suggests that extroversion is a healthier coping method than masking. Byatt’s characters Penny and Primrose have many similarities‚ yet their differences are what shape the way they will deal with
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After reading Wen Zhenghe’s “Superfluous Things” and Li Yu’s “ Notes Written in Moments of Idleness”‚ it is difficult to find out the fundamental differences in furniture and interior design between the Ming and Qing dynasties. This happens only because Wen and Li belong to a similar generation: Wen (1585-1645) was a great Ming dynasty scholar and painter‚ who was born is Suzhou; Li (1610-1680) lived in the late-Ming and early-Qing dynasties and born in Jiangsu‚ which is close to Suzhou. That’s why
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Nicolina Mannino English 11 Period 2 May 29‚ 2014 The Things They Carried “War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.” O’Brien would say the Vietnam War was a negative experience for those involved because soldiers struggled with the loss of others‚ coping with those losses and witnessed graphic death scenes at the ages of 18-23. The Things They Carried is a book written by Tim O’Brien that contains semi-autobiographical stories about
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story The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross leads a band of his men through the hills and swamps of Vietnam while dealing with the psychological agony of both his love for Martha and the safety of his men. In wartime however‚ it is known that your fellow man is anything from safe. Much of the men have camaraderie‚ but know that at any moment the person sitting next to them could be killed. This is where the theme of classification in personality when it comes what they carried
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The Things They Carried What seems like a true account of his time in war‚ Tim O ’Brien makes The Things They Carried a generalization of his own experiences in Vietnam. Through the actions of soldiers we can begin to explore the effect war has on the human condition and the toll it plays on their minds. O ’Brien makes shame and physical and emotional burdens motivation. He also plays around with the idea of ambiguous truth and how to tell true war stories. That the difference between the "happening
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reality of war; which is a major theme throughout the novel. The words that Tim O’Brien used to describe the war were mind boggling. It made me realize anything can happen at any minute and anything can change at any moment. It’s hard to imagine what the soldiers must have felt so young in such a terrifying and unforgiving war. To constantly live in fear of death is unimaginable. The descriptive language of this passage helped clarify how the soldiers felt and perceived the war; by expanding my
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Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam novel The Things They Carried was written in many respects to reflect real events and while we soon come to the realization that the actual event is in the end irrelevant‚ these events still provide a vital backdrop for the reader to initially absorb then realize that they don’t actually matter. The Things They Carried is not a text book nor in any respects is it an accurate historical account‚ it is a collection of memories‚ feelings and actions and with O’Brien staying clear
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I will not be talking in details‚ because most of the thing will be pretty much the same as last my 2 times above. Yesterday we had really full group. Between 9.30 and 10a.m children had their free play time. All of them were playing with blocks but different styles. At 10a.m children had breakfast time. They finished around 10.30. After that we had circle time. Children were introduced 2 new letters “r” and “m”. We repeated the letters what children already know. At 11 we did playdough with children
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It was the worst thing to happen in American history. It showed that if we were to be attacked again‚ we could only depend on each other and no other nations to help us. It made us united as one powerful nation who can stand up from the ruins of thousands of pounds of metal and fight so that we won’t have to be in ruins again. After that day our country became something no one had seen before‚ we became united as one. That day was so tragic and unforgettable we had become closer‚ more spiritual‚
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