In the short‚ story “How to Tell a True War Story” Tim O’Brien‚ the author‚ confuses the reader with his unique idea on how to tell a real story. Despite the fact‚ that O’Brien was drafted to go to the Vietnam War in 1969 he uses his friends and partners’ stories throughout his war years‚ to tell the world that everything about war is mistaken. Throughout his collection‚ The Thing They Carried (1990) he emphases that fear is what motivate soldiers to go to war. Indeed‚ fear drove him; he went to
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Postmodernism in The Matrix Postmodern writing evolved around WWII in response to Modernism that dominated the 19th c. The two writing styles share many characteristics‚ but the defeated modernist wallows in his realizations whereas the postmodernist offers a light or hope in conclusion. There is still a sense of foreboding for the postmodernist concerning science and technology. However‚ they are able to forge past their distrust‚ accept it as a logical progression‚ and begin to embrace some
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making the page numbers irrelevant. Please modify page numbers to coincide with your text. Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried" presents the central idea that amongst society‚ it is normal to react to atypical situations in an atypical way. Jimmy Cross‚ O’Brien’s protagonist‚ was developed to exemplify this atypical reaction. Cross allows the reader to believe and appreciate "the things they carried" as well as creating an extended metaphor. O’Brien begins his work describing the care that
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at a certain year. Events of history which create this period. Four Events. 1.) Mula industriyal na produksyon patungong Teknolohikal na Produksyon. (The industrial age.) Before the industrial age‚ there was a single technique‚ making a single thing coming from a person. Industrial age comes from the factories‚ assembly lines and the like. But if we go forward‚ to the factories today where most factories just run based off a very easy job‚ like pushing a button. Shift from Industrial -> Teknolohikal
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As an individual’s‚ we carried something in our lives that meant something that could be a small object or something inside us. In “The Things They Carried‚” many outlook on the things the soldiers carried or dealt. It shows us the many reasons why and how the soldiers possessed these things individually and how it was important for them. This doesn’t happen only in the war but in a daily day‚ we carry something special that has meaning. It could be any small object that tells something about us
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The twentieth century has been marked as a time of great suffering and advancement in human history. One product of this dynamic time is the theory of postmodernism. According to Thomas McEvilley‚ postmodernism happened in America after people started to realize that history was cruel and that people were not really progressing much. This directly discredited the pre-existing theory of modernism which took its ideology from the three pillars: progress‚ hierarchy of cultures‚ universals. McEvilley
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American Dream The Things They Carried - Log 1 The American Dream is the desire to succeed. Success can be achieved through hard work‚ and with hard work and success the American Dream can lead to happiness as well. The American Dream is attainable by all. It does not depend on social class‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ sexuality or anything that makes the person an individual. It relies on the ability to work hard and to strive for change. In the novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ each character transforms
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Psychoanalytic Criticism of The Things They Carried Within the book The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien said‚ “A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct‚ nor encourage virtue‚ nor suggest models of proper human behavior‚ nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral‚ do not believe it.” O’Brien is a Vietnam veteran who does not consider himself a hero. This is interesting because while growing up in the United States of America‚ people have learned
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hatred towards the Viet Cong sniper‚ and you don’t have undying support the American soldiers. It’s different from all the other cliché‚ patriotic war movies. Like Tim O’Brien writes “A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct‚ nor encourage virtue‚ nor suggest models of proper human behavior‚ nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral‚ do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted‚ or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude
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to know that things weren’t always like this‚ infact all of this happened in the last 100 years or so. In the last 100 years our Technology‚ War‚ and Society has drastically changed. First of all War back then was very different from what now‚ our tactics‚ weapons‚ and even experiences were not as cruel as they are now. Back then people use to love telling their own war story how brave they were but about 100 years ago all of that changed. In the article The Things They Carried the author was
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