Tim O’Brien‚ author of The Things They Carried‚ applies multiple techniques in his memoir in order to produce the theme of horror in war. He utilizes word connotation‚ literary/rhetorical techniques‚ sentence structure‚ and overall structure in the memoir. In an excerpt on page 199‚ O’Brien employs the combination of anaphora‚ metaphor‚ and negative word connotation to illustrate the horror of the Vietnam War. O’Brien often uses anaphora to emphasize his points within the sentences. Additionally
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care for obscenity‚ you don’t care for the truth; and if you don’t care for the truth‚ watch how you vote. Send guys to war‚ they come home talking dirty" (O’Brien 69). Drawing on your reading‚ knowledge‚ and experience‚ write a carefully reasoned essay defending‚ challenging‚ or qualifying O’Brien’s view of the relationship between truth and obscenity. Obscenity in Truth Truth and obscenity have a direct correlation‚ even in everyday life. This is especially true for war stories
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Cinematic Techniques Writing The main idea or ideas of this paper is to show how Tim Burton used all of the cinematic techniques to create mood and tone. He uses all of these techniques to show fear or other feeling towards the subject that is happening. We watched three of his movies and he had shown many different angles of the camera and lighting. In the movie Bigfish Burton used close‚ medium‚ and long shots. Long shots were when he was jumping out of that plane or when he was fishing ing
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Tim O’Brien’s The Things they carried In-class writing assignment War has always been something that seemed pointless to me; it seemed like violence with no other purpose but to harm people. I felt sorry for the people who had to go to war‚ for the people who died‚ and for people who could never go back to normal after a war ended‚ because of the mental or physical impact it had on them. Howard told us his story‚ his opinion about war‚ and the book “The Things they carried”. He changed my way
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Tim O’Brien constructs a meticulous narrative in order to portray a true representation of war through his writing. It is well known however that truth always becomes a casualty through war resulting in a challenging approach for O’Brien. Although deemed a work of fiction‚ many of the stories within The Things They Carried reflect an almost autobiographical outlook through the characters combined with metafiction. O’Brien does well to create a distinction between the truth of the narrative and that
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Civil War General Sherman once said‚ “War is hell.” He was right. In the short story “The Things They Carried‚” Tim O’Brien shows us the hell that our soldiers suffered. The narrator shows us a captivating‚ and up-close story about our soldiers in the Vietnam War. While the title relates to the story about things carried‚ but the soldiers carry more than just the physical burdens-in many cases‚ they are weighed down by emotional baggage. The emotional baggage that lies heavy in their hearts
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The Things They Carried Essay By Moriel Peng In The Things They Carried‚ courage is found in everyone. Tim O’Brien explains how courage is not always an active act or heroism‚ how courage was sometimes just continuing on. There isn’t just one way to define courage. Courage manifests itself differently in all people. The definition of courage constantly changes throughout the book. Tim’s experience showed how the war brought out the courage in himself and those around him. Courage is a character
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In Tim Burton films‚ the use of cinematic techniques helps the audience feel a sense of unease contrasted with a sense of comfort and safety. Burton uses techniques such as lighting‚ camera angles and shots and framing to depict and highlight different emotions throughout his films. Burton’s job working at Disney helped him develop a thing for comfort and safety due to the children’s stories and scripts he worked on at Disney. He also has an interest in peculiar objects and characters. When both
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The Things They Carried” is a short story written by Tim O’Brien in 1990. This story is about several young American soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War. The main focus of O’Brien’s story was the burdens that the soldiers each carried individually. The soldiers did not just carry tangible burdens like weapons‚ gear‚ and other essentials. The greatest burdens the platoon had to carry throughout the war‚ were the ones that they struggled with internally. Not only were these burdens heavy‚ but they
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