Writing A Speech: 'The Things They Carried'

Dear Students,

It's a pleasure for me to be here today with you guys. When I started to put together this speech, I could recall rapidly the main reason why I became a writer, specially a fiction author. Many of the facts that are included in the novel are not certain or accurate; the novel “The things they carried” is a fiction novel, I did not study history nor education, I am just a writer. Many of my days are basically writing different stories, some shorter than others, and not all of them are published, this is what I do for living and I the hobby that I enjoy the most.

I wrote “The Things They Carried” a long time after the Vietnam war was over, therefore it was written from the perspective of a soldier that is reflecting on the
And, for me, at least, I needed to distance myself to allow my imagination to reorganize and to reinterpret the material that had been so close to me that it was hard to separate what would be important for the story and what wouldn’t, what the reader would need and the reader would not.
In the novel, I alternate between the ambitious and the conversational for effect. For example, we have this sentence:
“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of the fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.” (The Things They Carried. 39)
The combination of epic and beautiful sentences that you would definitely not hear on the street and sentences that would not be out of place in a high school hallway gives the impression that I am in love with language of all types, and will use whatever style he needs to make the content ring true.
I switch back and forth between narrative voices, making the question about what´s real and what isn´t even more confusing.

Thank you all for coming,
Tim
I am referring to a group of college students that are about to graduate, and I am briefly explaining why I used certain literary elements to emphasize and narrate specific events.

This is structured as a speech, since it is an oral presentation to the following; this implies hooks, and opening, body paragraphs and a closing that leaves the audience with positive memories. At the same time, I want to encourage this young men to sacrifice themselves for their country and their loved ones, to protect them and give them the peace that they deserve.

In order to highlight certain ideas of this speech I used direct quotes from the novel that O’Brien wrote in the novel, to make references and explain more about the book itself.
Also the speech will include the author's point of view of this event/memory with detail.
I used formal language, although communicative at the same time, I included hooks and rhetorical questions to let the audience question themselves and have different opinions. Also I included a proper analysis of the novel, showing the understanding of the techniques used by the author and his