1. Cross feels that Lavender is killed because Cross himself was too busy daydreaming about Martha that he was unable to protect his men. Since Cross’s mind was in a distant place‚ he was unable to lead his team efficiently. Cross believes that if his mind was focused on the war he would have been able to protect Lavender. 2. At the end of the story Cross realizes that he needs to be a leader that is worthy of his men. There cannot be anymore daydreaming‚ and lack of focus since he is in a war.
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Not like in the movies where the dead guy rolls around and does fancy spins and goes ass over teakettle-not like that. Kiowa said. The bastard just flat fuck fell. Boom down. Nothing else.” “What stories can do‚ I guess‚ is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again. ’Daddy‚ tell the truth‚ ’Kathleen can say‚ ’did you ever kill anybody? ’ And I can say‚ honest‚ ’Of course not
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globally for women’s workplace participation. Japanese women make less than 29% less than Japanese men‚ seventy-two cents to dollar. Luckily‚ Japan is already starting to reinvent its social and political climate. The government has launched a campaign to increase the amount of women in the workforce by encouraging paternity leave. Since many women don’t return to work after they have children‚ increasing the rates of paternity leave gives more women a chance to go back to work. By law‚ companies are
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Enveloping action plays an essential role in how a reader perceives the plot within a story. As defined in The Glossary of Literary Terms‚ enveloping action is‚ “The general setting of a story including its sense of historical period or culture. This term- popularized by the New York Critics‚ also covers how characters interact with events and social currents going on in the larger world around them” (Literary Terms‚ 910). Instead of observing at what lies solely on the surface‚ enveloping action
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Women in the field of sports always has been undervalued and has struggled enough to be recognized in them‚ which some remain today. On the one hand‚ women formerly regarded as housewife and mother without having any kind of participation as a sporty woman in society. Starting with the old Greece‚ at that time the woman was banned to participate in any kind of sport and if she was married to being a spectator‚ due to the man was involved with the torso bare and that for married women was punishment
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Vazquez ENC 1102 T-TH 12:30 – 1:45 11 February 2013 “Coping through what they carried ” Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” was set in the time of the Vietnam War‚ and portrayed that each of the soldiers had something they carried. These things that each of the men carried represented them and how they coped when they were in the war. They needed these things as a necessity. Sometimes the things would get in the way of their thoughts and cause them to be distracted from their duties
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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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The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien uses narratives to evoke various thoughts within the reader. Yet Mary Anne Bell’s story is a cautionary tale of the influence the battlefield has on a person. One of the medics‚ Mark Fossie‚ decides to bring his high school sweetheart right into the war‚ not comprehending the cost of his action. The war turns innocent‚ naïve soldiers into brutal‚ desensitized killers; Mary Anne being no exception. Her tale illustrates how the war physically and mentally alters
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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 portray war‚ telling gruesome stories illustrating the irreparable damage war inflicts on the lives of young soldiers. The "things" the characters carry both concrete and emotional. Woefully‚ the ladder catapults the men into a lifetime of struggling to cope with the crushing
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In the first chapter of The Things They Carried‚ “The Thing They Carried”‚ Tim O’Brien uses the motif of intangible weights the men carry and how they have the strength to alter one’s performance and emotional state at war. The intangible weight of Martha’s love is like a barbell Jimmy Cross can never seem to let go of. Continuously carrying extra weight‚ Cross expresses how he "love[d] Martha more than his men" (6)‚ which results in the death of one of his men soldiers Ted Lavender. Cross’s love
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