Tim O’Brien walked through Vietnam as an infantryman during the Vietnam War. A war that took place 50 years ago now; a great majority of the population was not even born during the time of the war. It is easy to forget an event from such a long time ago‚ but O’Brien‚ it seems‚ can never forget. And he doesn’t want to forget. And he doesn’t want anyone else to forget. He wants the world to understand the war‚ and the toll it had. For that reason‚ he writes novels and stories chronicling the war‚ specifically
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There are many different controversies on the information in “The Things They Carried”. Some believe to tell a good story‚ there’s only facts and no truth‚ but some think that there needs to be all fictional elements and no facts to make a good story. A majority of people say that an excellent story starts with facts and adds in other elements like metaphors‚ symbolism‚ and imagery because visualizing the story helps the reader connect to the unfamiliar event. Using imagery is a smart way to engage
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Cassandra Reed S. Matthews Comp II 3 March 2014 The Things They Carried The Things They Carried by Tim O’ Brien is a collection of twenty-two short stories about the mental and physical endeavors that the American soldiers in the Vietnam War that comes together in one short novel. In this collection O’ Brien often blurs the lines between fiction and reality in order to push the reader to sympathize with the soldiers as they carry guilt‚ shame‚ cowardice‚ malice‚ and confusion. Many of the
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Essay: O’Brien’s The Things They Carried Throughout Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried true events and emotional truth were intertwined and often confused. War is confusing. It is clear that each person in the story interprets the truth differently. When telling a war story‚ the actual events‚ and the feeling the events create are not the same. The intensity of the emotion differs. Tim O’Brien chooses to express the truth in a war story by embellishing the events that occur. He
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The Arthur Tim o Brien was born on October 1st 1964 best know for his work of fiction stories The Things They Carried‚ a critically acclaimed collection of semi-autobiographical‚ interrelated short stories connects to the story because he was present in it. he participated in the Vietnam war . In this story he goes into deep detail about him killing someone in the war when his daughter asked has he ever killed someone in the beginning it goes into deep detail about his thoughts on if he should
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The Things They Carried – Discussion Research 1. “A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.” In his stories‚ Tim plays with the truth. He has been doing this since he was a young boy‚ wishing his girlfriend back to life. He realizes that if you try hard enough and are creative enough‚ you can bring the dead back to life in stories. It doesn’t matter whether the stories are exactly true--you can change the name‚ or location‚ or even parts
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Literature is a reflection of the truth. The Things They carried portrayed the Vietnam war accurately. O’Brien took us deep into the emotions of the veterans and it made the readers sympathize with them. O’Brien wrote about the raw emotions of the veterans and that made readers truly sympathize for the veterans. Veterans go through an unexplainable experience that average civilians can never understand. That makes it hard for veterans to talk about their experiences to an extent that someone will
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War The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien represents the epitome of dehumanization that war inflicts on people. Each character is involved in a short story that makes up the entire novel; their different traits make up not only their personality but their entire persona and how their social role contributed to the overall message. The characters participation in the war leads to many tragic fates such as absurdity‚ trauma‚ and suicide. In the novel‚ Mary Anne‚ Tim O’Brien‚ and Norman
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The book that I have recently read was “The things they carried”. The book was written by Tim O’Brien who was once a US soldier. The book is about the Vietnam War which was started around 1955. Tim himself was a soldier fighting in the war who had survived. He writes the story fictionally but the names of the characters are of real people. The book is a series of short stories and the situation in the story reflects horror of the war. There are three areas of conflicts that occur in the stories
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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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