"The things they carried" In "the things they carried" Tim O’Brien defines a fine line between fiction and non-fiction in the form of story telling and the memories he has accumulated from his participation in the Vietnam war the way they "seemed" rather than "what happened" because that’s how you tell "a true war story" and that’s how the book effectively engages the reader throughout the whole book because nothing is ordinary‚ not even the way the book is put together‚ you just can’t anticipate
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Elizabeth Caldwell Prof. Moffitt 4/16/2013 The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien continuously uses repetition of talking about the items the soldiers carry mentally and physically to show the burdens of war. Each item O’Brien talks about tells a little about each character and what fears they try to escape from. An example would be “Dave Jensen carried three pairs of socks and a can of Dr.Scholl’s foot powder as a precaution for trench foot.” (O’Brien pg.1) Jensen carried these things so
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Happiness is a choice... or is it? The answer isn’t that simple. Everyday people go through hardships and suffer from internal wars that make it impossible to just choose happiness. This makes it important for people to practice different coping mechanisms for people to understand and internalize their emotions. Tim O’Brien expands upon this idea of coping with hardships in his novel The Things They Carried. With the setting taking place on the battlefield of the vietnam war‚ the way these men cope
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Death is something that is inevitable‚ It’s not something humans and life in general can’t run away from. It is especially something soldiers cannot walk away from. In “The Things They Carried”‚ Tim O’Brien’s characters suffer this reality time and time again in the Vietnam War. A war that costed the life of thousands of American servicemen. Men who suffered horrific conditions and watched their close friends die in devastating combat and treacherous terrain. It could be easy to call the men who
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In Tim O’Brien’s novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ the author uses explicit details to illustrate what the experience was like for the American soldiers during the Vietnam War. O’Brien is a writer and Vietnam War veteran and in his novel‚ he delivers memories of his service in Vietnam and brings them to life. The Vietnam War began in 1955 and was a long‚ costly armed conflict against communism. A large majority of soldiers in the war served because of the draft. By 1968‚ the number of American soldiers
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Confronting war is an immense crisis man can face. War is an armed conflict between nations or groups‚ with the need to have men engage. Encountering war can cause a drift between people and their relationships. Conflict mostly impacts relationships with oneself because there is a bigger force than one’s value that draft men into the army. The negativity of war on an individual is specified in the poem‚ “The Friendship Only Lasted a Few Seconds‚” by Lily Lee Adams‚ about a nurse treating a dying
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personalities‚ Tim O’ Brien uses these “things” to show detachment from reality of the soldiers. “The Things They Carried” took place in Vietnam from November 1‚ 1955 to April 30‚ 1975. Vietnam was America’s first war that involved complete guerilla warfare combat. America’s soldiers had never experienced fighting in such difficult altered conditions. The war was never popular because there were implications that Johnson sought to deceive the American public of its intentions. Most males drafted for
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Advancement of Warfare 25 November 2012 During the 19th century the nature of warfare was reaching a turning point. It all began in the 1940s with the nuclear revolution and began advancing as quickly as the seasons ever since. By the time World War II approached‚ America had a whole new outlook on how to fight their battles. While the generals and commanders of the United States army were preparing for future warfare‚ Orson Scott Card was busy predicting the future of warfare in his award winning
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World War 1 Trench Warfare The Western Front during World War 1 stretched from the North Sea to the Swiss Frontier with France. Both sides dug themselves in ending any possible chance of a quick war; this caused a stalemate‚ which was to last for most of the war. Over 200‚000 men died in the trenches of WW1‚ most of who died in battle‚ but many died from disease and infections brought on by the unsanitary conditions. The Great War lasted from 1914-1918 simply because of the fighting in the trenches
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The Inhumane Weapons of Warfare Chemical warfare is a barbaric weapon of war that should be banned from any war situation. Chemical Warfare is using any chemical or chemical mix that can physically or mentally harm a human being. It has been killing people for over 2600 years and was created by Spartans. “They grabbed burning sulfur pitch and threw it over the walls of Athens attempting to fill the city with toxic gas.”[6] They tried this because they had a small army that was trying to take over
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