reminder to the soldiers that they are not safe. In this short story the narrator wanted to express the loneliness the soldiers felt and distressed because of the lives lost in this War was catastrophic. The narrator also uses his own personal experiences from Vietnam‚ thus allowing him to cope. Later on in the story you also see the slight psychological damages the soldiers will have. When referring to the items in the story the narrator uses them to symbolize‚ the characters‚ photos‚ and letters
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The beginning of chapter 1 starts out by a 24 year old First Lieutenant‚ Jimmy Cross‚ reading letters from a lady named Martha. Martha is an english major at a school called Mount Sebastian College and Jimmy describes her letters as being beautifully written. Jimmy is also in love with Martha‚ but she doesn’t feel the same way about him. The author then introduces us to the things that each soldier carries. Some soldiers are required to carry certain things based on their role and duty in the military
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Ashley Guevara ENGL 2335-01 Professor Benavides December 9‚ 2013 O達rien痴 The Things They Carried: The Man underneath the Helmet The American Flag has always been representative of the United States of America and the freedom it stands for. One could even call it a symbol‚ not only of freedom‚ but of the American people. There are men and women who use this to motivate themselves as they are miles away from their families‚ fighting for the freedom this flag symbolizes. There are many symbols
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that everything they carry are either very meaningful to themselves or a necessity.Everyone carries something. Jimmy cross carries his photos of Martha‚ The men carry can openers‚ Knives‚ Kool-Aid‚ and water‚ but almost everyone humps (carries) photos of girls‚ of family‚ and of friends.Although the men carry these things they also carry things based on superstition. Jimmy Cross carries photos of martha‚he also carries her letters that she sent him.Jimmy loves martha and hopes martha
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Tim O’Brien is a very gifted author‚ but he is also a veteran of the Vietnam War and fought with the United States in that controversial war. Tim O’Brien was drafted into the Vietnam War in 1968. He served as an infantryman‚ and obtained the rank of sergeant and won a Purple Heart after being wounded by shrapnel. He was discharged from the Vietnam War in 1970. I believe that O’Brien’s own images and past experiences he encountered in the Vietnam War gave him inspiration to write the story “The
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George Orwell and Jimmy Cross Character Comparison In the two short stories‚ Shooting an Elephant and the Things They Carried there are certain similarities and differences that George Orwell and Jimmy Cross hold. Each character in the short stories has there own different situation they are in‚ but they both are in a foreign land and they both have to take orders and do what there country is asking of them. However‚ even though each situation is different they both deal with some of the same
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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 not only the physical things that the soldiers
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Jimmy Cross never forgave himself for Ted’s death. His guilt was “something that would never go away” (page 26). His guilt transcends onto everyone who died‚ but his testimony of immense guilt stems from his mistake of being distracted by Martha. Readers can sense the pain that Cross carried. 6. Jimmy got a new picture of Martha playing volleyball (he burned the first copy in Vietnam) after he ran
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Tim O’Brien wrote The Things They Carry‚ an emotional story about soldiers leaving home to fight in the Vietnam War and the items they carried with them. O’Brien begins his story‚ when soldiers go into combat and overseas to serve our country include military issue equipment as well as personal items‚ which hold memories of fear or emotional value. O’Brien shows readers the weight soldiers carry while serving in the military. The love for family and country are important and how memories can be carried
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Essay on “The Things They Carried” In the story "The Things They Carried‚" by Tim O’Brien‚ discusses a group of American soldiers marching through Vietnam during the war. The narrator is describing the items that each of the soldiers carries with him during the march through Vietnam. The items that the soldiers carried with them are both symbolic and physical items and what these things are depends upon the individual soldier. They carry the basic necessities for survival and the bare minimum to
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