Category: The Things They Carried
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Narration, Setting, and Terms in The Things They Carried
Central Idea of the Story The central idea of the story is to determine why different people carry items that they do. The narrator notes physical objects and metaphysical ideas that the soldiers bring with them. For instance, Lt. Cross carries a tangible picture of Martha and his ephemeral feelings for her at the same…
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The Short Story The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien
The short story The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien explores the emotional and psychological struggles which soldiers go through in the battlefield. This is evident from first person voice narration OBrien, who relates the daily experiences of the soldiers in his Alpha Company in the jungles of Vietnam. Even though the speaker does not…
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The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien
The Things They Carried is a book that consists of fictional stories about soldiers experience during the war in Vietnam. The writer reflects on his participation in the military conflict by using a fictional hero Tim OBrien. Through storytelling, the author manages to explore his own feelings to convey the message he finds essential.…
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The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien: Bright Characters With Uneasy Fates
Introduction Wars are conflicts blown out of proportion, leading to thousands, if not millions, of innocent deaths. Tim OBrien wrote stories about the simple people who happened to be at the heart of the Vietnam conflict. It is hard to tell which events in his book The Things They Carried are purely fictional or based…
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Andrews Choice in Briens The Things They Carried
A war is something that may change human life considerably: it is not an army, where young people just learn to serve and complete certain duties; it is not a game, where everything is according to the already established rules; and it is not a movie, where a director may stop the action to perform…
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Emotional Trauma in The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien
My topic is the emotional trauma described in The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien. My main point is that the physical belongings of the soldiers depicted in the book represent their emotional states and priorities. I argue that the author depicts each item to reveal exact traumas American soldiers had to endure. I discuss…
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Lieutenant Cross in OBriens The Things They Carried
Introduction All of the pieces of literature contain a specific thought the author intended to make readers pay attention to, a lesson that can be learned based on one or another characters conduct. The book entitled The Things They Carried, written by American novelist Tim OBrien is composed of stories focused on Vietnam War. The…
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The Things They Carried Stories by Tim OBrien
Table of Contents Introduction Main text The difference Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Books are written to deliver ideas, whether they fictional or based on real facts. There are cases when delivering the idea requires that the author recreates the truth even if it is based on real facts in order to have the readers relive…
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The Things They Carried: What Did They Carry?
Tim OBriens short story, The Things They Carried, begins as a highly literal enumeration of objects soldiers in Vietnam carry, each thing valued not only for its utility but also according to its weight because every object has to be humped and therefore each soldier eliminates whatever is not needed, even dropping some of them…
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The Novel The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien
Table of Contents Who is Cameron Sullivan? Sullivans Initiation Sullivans Vietnam Conflict Sullivans Post War Period Work Cited Who is Cameron Sullivan? Cameron Sullivan was one of the many returnees from the Vietnam conflict. Like many other former soldiers, Sullivan returned with what he and some other soldiers derisively referred to as spoils of war.…