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    the reader can frequently see that the author has expressed his or her own personal life into these short stories. Tim O’Brien is an American author who has shared his experiences of the Vietnam War through many of his famous works such as “If I Die in a Combat zone‚ Box Me Up and Ship Me Home”‚ “Going After Cacciato”‚ and the work 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

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    through everyday situations. We know if we do not live up to the standards of society and the ones we have set for ourselves‚ our minds become scared that other people will think of our self image as cowardly. In the novel The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien uses the reflection of soldiers past memories to show cowardly self thought and concern of not being worthy in defective situations. These examples

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    A true writers writer‚ Tim O’Brien discusses the connection between truth and storytelling in his novel “The Things They Carried”. He uses stories to dabble on the fine line of what actually happened and what seemed to happen. O’Brien uses his stories not to relay details of a certain event‚ but rather to express the teeming emotions felt and attempt to keep lost ones alive. A universal aspect of O’Brien’s stories is death. He speaks of his dead comrades to keep them alive‚ similar to how the

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    The Things They Carried By Tim O’Brien Describe your speaker. What do you know about him/her? What do you NOT know about him/her? What makes your speaker an effective story teller? What character in the novel do you believe to be the least effective? Why? How does the speaker relate to this character? I know that the speaker is conscious of what he writes about‚ meaning that he knows he writes only about the Vietnam War and that it has consumed his writing career yet can’t help

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    The Things They Carried‚ By Tim O’Brien Tim O’Brien’s novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ provides an incredible realization of what life was like for an American soldier who fought in Vietnam from perspectives before‚ during‚ and after the war. The story’s power draws you in. It makes the events in the story seem real and provides the reader with a sense of what it feels like to be one of the soldiers. O’Brien’s talent as a writer made a fictional story more than believable to the reader. When reading

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    The Things They Carried is a memoir of twenty-two stories about the author‚ Tim O’Brien and his half truth memories of his time as a soldier in the Vietnam War. O’Brien admits in the novel often blurring the line between the real story and the absurd fallacy the names of the characters in the book are those of his comrades the entire collect serves as a self-contained work because it is so loyal to its themes and characters. "The Things They Carried:" This story introduces the reader to O’Brien’s

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    surroundings and push people that are close to them away. Norman Bowker‚ the main character in the short story “Speaking of Courage” by Tim O’Brien‚ lost his close friend in Vietnam‚ faced the realities of war‚ and believes no one will understand the torment he went through since they did not experience what he did‚ as a result‚ he feels detached from his home town. Tim O’Brien describes Bowker’s detachment from his home through the descriptions

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    it to the fullest‚ and expect it at any time. Every person on this planet will die at one time but it is what we do during our life that will keep our life living forever in the people we affected. The poems‚ "A Psalm of Life" and " The Tide Rises the Tide Falls‚" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow‚ are about life and death. Both tell us of the inevitable fact that we are

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    century. That is indeed a grim distinction in a span that included two world wars‚ the assassinations of two presidents and the resignation of another‚ the Great Depression‚ the Cold War‚ racial unrest‚ and the drug and crime waves.”(Donald M. Goldstein) Tim O’Brien‚ the author of the book‚ The Things They Carried‚ goes into his memory to his time serving in The Vietnam War. It explains his experiences with his fellow teammates and everything they went through. Being a nonlinear book‚ it gives you an almost

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    veterans. Although the Vietnam War ended forty years ago‚ veterans are constantly haunted by the atrocious memories. The thought of war triggers their emotions and creates worry due to the encounters on the battlefield. In particular‚ a veteran named Tim O’Brien publishes The Things They Carried to demonstrate the realities of war. Through a compilation of stories‚ O’Brien inserts himself into the book as a character‚ narrator‚ and writer to depict how the war changed his life. He illustrates the

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