Rebecca Porter Professor Ippolito Introduction to Literature February 9‚ 2014 An Analysis of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried‚ the narrator tells the story of a platoon of men serving in the military during the Vietnam War. The narrator of this story follows the men‚ led by Lieutenant Jimmy Cross through the treacherous‚ unknown terrain of Vietnam. As most of us know from stories told by Vietnam veterans‚ including my Uncle Ed who was a Navy Seal
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Fear is a problem because it affects everything; we think and say and do‚ all the decisions and the choices we make. For example human fear many things like fear of flying‚ heights‚ death and etc.. In his book the things they carried Tim O’Brien writes but the theme of fear because the soldiers in the Vietnam War were afraid of making the right decisions. Tim O’Brien and his platoon carry the fear of death and the fear of shame.fear is show in this is characters of Jimmy Cross‚ Norman Barker‚ and Time
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Angel Caisapanta Professor Wells English 1102 14 February‚ 2011 “The Things They Carried” In the short story “The Things They Carried‚” written by Tim O’Brien‚ there is a lot of symbolism in each specific object that was mentioned. According to Dictionary.com‚ a symbolism is the practice of representing things by symbols‚ or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. A symbol is something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something
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Course Date The Symbolism of Weight in “The Things They Carried” The title of Tim O ’Brien ’s collection of short stories employs the use of weight. However‚ this is both in the physical and psychological sense. This book‚ published in 1990‚ explores in depth the theme of weight in regards to physical objects such as rations and cigarettes‚ while delving deeper into the emotions of fear‚ reverence and admiration that “weigh” on these soldiers. O ’ Brien gives a considerable amount of space to amplify
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The Things They Carried The story. “The Things They Carried” was about a group of solders in the Viet Nam war. The story explained what the solders carried both physically‚ and emotionally. However what truly made this story so great was how the writer used the literary terms of symbol‚ setting‚ and theme to convey the meaning of the story. In the story‚ “The Things They Carried” symbolism had a big role in how the write gave life to the story. The literary definition of symbol is: An object
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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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like‚ but that awful song just keeps playing over and over and over‚ in your mind. Now imagine that song as your most horrific memories‚ and it never stops. This is how Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder makes most people feel. The author of The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien‚ is one of the men who was with the other soldiers‚ meaning that he experienced the events in the story first-hand. He himself also suffers from PTSD‚ and has chapters about his thoughts‚ feelings‚ and family intervention when he
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American women prevalent in rural Vietnam. The women in The Things They Carried‚ Martha‚ Linda‚ Kathleen‚ and the Unknown Girl‚ are all represented as variables of life. Martha represents love and danger‚ Linda is death and maturity‚ and the Unknown girl represents that life always moves forward. By using these women in the story‚ this represents‚ in whole‚ the better side of life‚ as well as the raw truth of war. In the story The Things They Carried‚ Lt. Jimmy Cross carries letters from a woman named Martha
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The author‚ Tim O’Brien‚ is deployed into the Vietnam war when he is a young man. Throughout the novel‚ the effects of the war on him are shown and they are profound‚ he has seen death and suffering; he has he seen death but he has also been the cause of it. He describes
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The Things They Carried‚ a novel by Tim O’Brien‚ is a collection of war stories told from a fictional Vietnam veteran’s perspective. O’Brien elucidates the physical and emotional barrier war creates between men and women to help demonstrate the frustration soldiers have with women in war. O’Brien illustrates the physical and emotional barrier Vietnam creates between men and women. The letters soldiers write to their girlfriends in the United States demonstrate the physical barrier between the two
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