The Spectacular Now The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp represents being yourself in many ways. Tharp uses the main character Sutter Keely because he is different than everyone else in his graduating class. Sutter is not focused on anything besides girls and he has nobody to lean on in his scattered family. He lives with his mom in Oklahoma‚ his father ran away when he was young‚ and his sister is married to a man who is disliked very much. Something else that makes Sutter different than the other
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Confirmation Packet – The Lord’s Prayer Due: April 24th 1. Prayer I our commitment to God and ourselves. Prayer is important because I am speaking to God on a personal basis. 2. Vocal Prayer is speaking to dog verbally like saying a prayer with everyone at church. Mediation is praying to god on a personal basis lie at night. Contemplative is praying with a community. 3. Adoration is praying at the Blessed Sacrament. Petition is praying for a special intention
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Tim O’brien’s the Things They Carried is a collection of fictional war stories based on his own time in vietnam. Each stories features a role in a continuous narrative‚ fractured pieces of one squads experiences in vietnam. O’Brien throughout the novel continuously shits narration‚ from person to person giving the reader insights into each soldier’s perspective. One of the most powerful perspectives came from a character named Tim O’Brien. Throughout the novel his perspective is consistently boyish
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soldiers who did return home came back to an America far different than the one they left behind and were subject to the hatred of anti-war protestors and many came back changed and haunted by the things they had seen and done in Vietnam. Some‚ like Tim O’Brien‚ found solace several years later by writing of their own accounts of what they witnessed while overseas. O’Brien did so in his collection
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Tim O’Brien‚ author of The Things They Carried‚ applies multiple techniques in his memoir in order to produce the theme of horror in war. He utilizes word connotation‚ literary/rhetorical techniques‚ sentence structure‚ and overall structure in the memoir. In an excerpt on page 199‚ O’Brien employs the combination of anaphora‚ metaphor‚ and negative word connotation to illustrate the horror of the Vietnam War. O’Brien often uses anaphora to emphasize his points within the sentences. Additionally
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The novel The Road is about the relationship between a boy and his father after the apocalypse. The boy and the man struggle every day just to get a piece of food in their stomach to be able to stay alive. Staying alive after the apocalypse destroyed the planet that was once known to be Earth would be a major challenge and numerous factors would come into play. Some of these factors would be a food source‚ shelter and even more importantly‚ your companions. Who you’re spending your time with in the
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Tim O’Brien constructs a meticulous narrative in order to portray a true representation of war through his writing. It is well known however that truth always becomes a casualty through war resulting in a challenging approach for O’Brien. Although deemed a work of fiction‚ many of the stories within The Things They Carried reflect an almost autobiographical outlook through the characters combined with metafiction. O’Brien does well to create a distinction between the truth of the narrative and that
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readers and also are the key tool for why Carters tales are so gripping‚ using familiar fairytales and then introducing these subversions makes one feel as if one is reading completely new stories. Angela Carter’s "The Bloody Chamber" and "The Tiger’s Bride" are both explorations of masks and stereotypes in society. They explore the many masks people can wear‚
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Tim O’Brien’s The Things they carried In-class writing assignment War has always been something that seemed pointless to me; it seemed like violence with no other purpose but to harm people. I felt sorry for the people who had to go to war‚ for the people who died‚ and for people who could never go back to normal after a war ended‚ because of the mental or physical impact it had on them. Howard told us his story‚ his opinion about war‚ and the book “The Things they carried”. He changed my way
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