How to Breathe Underwater and The Things They Carried are books that are told through letters and mini stories. Tim O’Brien’s short story is told through letters from his comrades from his time in the Vietnam War. The letters express love‚ grief and remorse. On the other hand‚ Orringer’s stories are told through the point of young woman or girls who are struggling with decisions like religion‚ love‚ sexuality‚ and beauty. Both stories are neither light or uplifting‚ they ponder very serious emotional
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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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The Empathy Deficit was one of the more interesting texts we have read for class. The author‚ Keith O’Brien‚ strayed away from the more general topics in technology. For example‚ how social media is changing the way we think or how Google is making us stupid. He opens the article with a fact of how young adults today use technology to have endless and instant connections. He also addresses how we are interested in face-to-face communication. This portrays a feeling that he believes there is nothing
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Metafiction in Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges Borges’ use of metafiction in the compiled short stories of “Ficciones”‚ shows a different type of narrative technique. The author interpolates ideas or stories within his stories to provide a critique of his own work in order to analyze the basic structures of narrative fiction. In Borges’ short stories “The Circular Ruins” and“The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim”‚ Borges critiques his own style of writing by creating a fictional story within his fictional
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Tim O’ Brian and Nathaniel Hawthorn are very profound writers and authors. Tim O’ Brian is best known for his fiction novels and stories he writes. Nathaniel Hawthorn is also an American novelist who writes short stories. They both have short stories that deals with the effect of loneliness of people. By comparing and contrasting “On The Rainy River” by Tim O’ Brian and “The Minster’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorn‚ one can see that loneliness has an profound role in humans. The theme is one way
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In the novel The Things They Carried‚ author Tim O’Brien builds the emotion that various soldiers had during the Vietnam war specifically Rat Kiley’s emotion. The feeling of pain‚ grief‚ sorrowness‚ joy‚ and unity. O’Brien uses diction‚ anecdote‚ symbolism and imagery to better establish the tone and build the relationship between the members of the unit. O’Brien goes in depth to each war story he presents using these rhetorical devices to better explain the story to the reader. Firstly O’Brien
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In the beginning of this chapter‚ the platoon of soldiers run across an abandoned pagoda. I had to google what a pagoda was because I was unfamiliar with it. A pagoda is a Hindu or Buddhist temple or sacred building. In this pagoda‚ they found monks. This chapter was confusing to me at first because it was hard to find a reason for this chapter to be placed in this book. These monks aided to the soldiers; I assumed they did this because of their caring nature. I’m not sure if the monks quite understood
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“Queen Emma And The Vikings”‚ is a historical fiction written by Harriet O’Brien in 2005‚ but in the time period of the 900’s. Harriet O’Brien has a journalist based in London. She has written for the independent and Conde Nast Traveler‚ among other publications. She resigned after going freelance to travel more. She mainly covers the UK‚ Europe and Asia‚ where she grew up. This is her second book. The first book she wrote is called‚ “Forgotten Land”. This book intrigued me because it offered the
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claim they feel survivor’s guilt for not being able help others or maybe even witnessed them take their last breaths not because they couldn’t help but because they would be putting their self at risk if they did. Many people‚ especially soldiers say thing along the lines of‚ “if only they could have done something differently so that person could go home and
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“On the rainy river” is a short story that wonderfully depicts the showing of the time in 1968 where men were sent letters in the mail that drafted them into the war with a mentality that men are stronger and cannot show fear or emotion. These men had a feeling of shame and unmanly which imposed them to sexism towards the women in the society. A 21-year-old man by the name of Tom O’Brien was drafted into the American War in Vietnam merely one month after graduating from college. Tom speaks of his
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