prerequisite for sophomore English offerings further develops the analytical thinking and research skills underlying academic success through the study of literature. The student’s writing of genre-based essays‚ including researched papers‚ reinforces the thinking skills associated with interpretation‚ explication‚ evaluation‚ analysis‚ and synthesis. Essays‚ including a 1500-2000 word documented library research-based paper‚ are required. Three class hours per week. Credit: three semester hours.
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Commentary on Ambush by Tim O’Brien Contradiction in the mind‚ we struggle between decisions. Whether it is correct or not‚ it leaves an indelible memory. In Tim O’Brien’s confessional writing‚ Ambush‚ he creates a flashback and recalls his memory in Vietnam. With detail descriptions‚ Tim O’Brien expresses his guilt towards killing an innocent young man. Furthermore‚ reinforcing his opposition against war with the writing. In paragraph 2 and 3‚ Tim O’Brien has created a flashback to present his
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so completely that it joins with the world of dream and fantasy in an absolute reality. When surrealism is added in the nature of humankind‚ it has infinite endless amounts of meanings. Surrealism can impact one’s life through a variety of ways. For Tim O’Brien and many other people in war‚ war was very surreal for them. One of the most surreal moments O’Brien had during war was the death of Ted Lavender. “Right then‚ Ted Lavender was shot in the head on his way back from peeing. He lay with his mouth
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Tim O’ Brien: he is one of the main characters in the story and what he does is that he collects stories from individuals that had went to fight in the Vietnam War. He is a pacifist meaning he is against war and overall violence. He cares for his family and country more than himself. He was also part of the Vietnam War as a soldier in the Alpha Company and after the war‚ he decided to collect stories that would help him deal with his pain and the deaths of his companions. Also‚ he was the narrator
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In the beginning of the story he finds out that he has made a mistake in joining the army he’s scared out of his mind. He kept dreaming about times where he was safe or at home with his parents. He envisions the future of him being alive and having war buddies and talking about his war experiences with them. He wasn’t just scared of dying‚ he’s also scared of fear itself‚ ha‚ that’s ironic isn’t it. He wants to share with his parents all the details of his experiences but he doesn’t want to tell
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200‚00 people died in the vietnam war. Imagine watching people die in front of you‚ getting shot at and having to come home and return to “normal”. That is what Tim O’Brien had to go through. It took him 20 years to be able to come to terms with memories and write a novel. The novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a nonlinear book‚ which is a book that is told out of order. O’Brien made the novel this way because that is how memories work. He wanted a place to gather his thoughts and feelings
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Why did the Vietnam War really start? Why was the United States fighting? Did it have something to do with the Domino Theory? All of these were questions Tim O’Brien had in “On the Rainy River.” O’Brien was an average young adult who had a job and a family and who did not really care about the Vietnam War that was going on. On day‚ O’Brien received a draft notice and all his thoughts on the war changed‚ but not in a good way. He hated the war so much that he went up to the northern tip of Minnesota
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Cover Letter Mrs. Dawalt‚ The majority of the feedback I received addressed my formatting. I knew when I completed my first draft that that would be the case considering formatting definitely isn’t my forte. I feel like I have learned a lot more as to how to format well by writing this. I’ve gotten much better at inserting headers‚ footers‚ and page numbers. I knew how to do it before but I almost had to re-learn it every time. I only received one peer review. The main thing that was brought
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Tim O’Brien‚ an author and avid reader‚ grew up near the borders of Iowa and South Dakota in Worthington‚ Minnesota‚ a typical small town in Midwestern America. He was born on October 1‚ 1946‚ making Tim a member of the post-World War II baby boomer generation. As a scrappy 18 year old‚ O’Brien traveled to St. Paul and enrolled at Macalester College. Throughout his years in college‚ O’Brien came to oppose the war in Vietnam. He didn’t launch violent protests‚ as some radical activist groups had
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Metafiction is a literary device that makes a reader question what is reality and what is fiction. Tim O’Brien uses metafiction‚ in his chapter “How to Tell a True War Story”‚ to tell the reader how one can pick out a true war story as he is telling a war story. He uses this technique to emphasize how real the stories were to keep himself sane and get his bottled-up emotions off his chest. In the chapter “Notes”‚ O’Brien tells the reader a story about a man named Norman Bowker. Bowker committed
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