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    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 truth behind war in different

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    The True Tragedy of Vietnam: A look into Tim O’Brien’s emotional anti-war message The Vietnam War was a war of great ambiguity. Flowered up with the illusive ideas of heroism and triumph‚ millions of America’s innocent youth were drafted to fight a war in Vietnam. The consequences for this war were grave and dire. Millions from both sides lost their lives for a seemingly unreasonable cause. In his novel "The Things They Carried"‚ Tim O’Brien changes the glorified way in which media and textbooks

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    like‚ but that awful song just keeps playing over and over and over‚ in your mind. Now imagine that song as your most horrific memories‚ and it never stops. This is how Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder makes most people feel. The author of The Things They CarriedTim O’Brien‚ is one of the men who was with the other soldiers‚ meaning that he experienced the events in the story first-hand. He himself also suffers from PTSD‚ and has chapters about his thoughts‚ feelings‚ and family intervention when he

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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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    Jeff Jackson Instructor Barbara Manuel English 112 3 March 2013 Shell Shock: A Bloodless Battlefield A storyteller of war‚ Tim O’Brien‚ author of The Things They Carried‚ keeps the reader mesmerized with PTSD stories of the Vietnam War. This novel represents a compound documentary written on accounts of the Vietnam War. Many of the stories in this book encompass various examples of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. There are graphical depictions

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    Heavy Baggage the Soldiers Endure in Tim O’Brien‚ The Things They Carried Often times‚ when we are asked‚ “What is a burden?” we often say that it is something that is difficult to bear‚ something that often leads to a great deal of anxiety and stress‚ and something that acts as the foundation of difficulty and trouble one may face. In the literary excerpt‚ “The Things They Carried‚” written by Tim O’Brien‚ the author illustrates the significance of burdens‚ and how the consequential emotional

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    essay is to compare and contrast the poem of Juan Delgado and the story of Tim O’Brien. The conflict identified in the story “The things they carried” by Tim O’Brien and “A Point West of San Bernardino” by Juan Delgado centers on the struggle people can go through while trying to live in the world. Which represents in some cases how we see the world and what we carry along with us‚ showing that humans there are many things that we carry with us that we don’t pay any attention to unless we are forced

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    At the beginning of the book The Things They Carried‚ author Tim O’Brien says‚ “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief‚ terror‚ love‚ longing - these were intangibles‚ but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity‚ they had tangible weight” (Tim O’Brien). Soldiers in the Vietnam war carried home with them memories of ghosts‚ ghosts of people they killed‚ villages burned‚ and their own brethren dying in horrifying ways. Tim O’Brien tells about some of the people

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    Carley Argentieri Literature 101 Quinn Rough Draft The Things They Carried By: Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a series of short stories that focuses on the lives of a platoon of soldiers during the Vietnam War‚ the items they carry; both mandatory and not‚ and how they deal with the hardships while serving. Of course the items that these military men are required to carry are extremely important to their survival‚ I have chosen to focus more on the smaller more personal

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    Evan Wann 5/20/13 Things They Carried Essay For my essay I chose to do it on Henry Dobbins. Henry Dobbins was a soldier in the Alpha Company that had carried physically his girlfriend’s pantyhose around his neck‚ extra rations‚ M-60‚ ammunition and Black flag insecticide. Henry Dobbins figuratively carries the weight of memory and guilt. Henry Dobbins shows that he is feeling guilt and maturing as the book goes on in the chapter “Style”. Throughout the book Henry Dobbins was seen “wrapping his

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