because he is the narrator and the main character. This chapter is on the field with the soldiers and explaining everything that they carry when they are in battle. It explains everything the soldiers have in their bags and what things they have that relate to war and things that relate to more sentimental reasons. This chapter goes over all the soldiers and gives you a brief feel of what kind of person they are. It also lets you know what they carry and what makes them unique. I believe that the
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The Things They Carried Report “The Things They Carried” was a story about soldiers caught in the confusion of the Vietnam War. There are a lot of apparent themes that are dealt with when writing a story about war‚ especially about death. I enjoyed reading this story; however there were some things about it that I was concerned about. I would like to discuss the author’s style of writing‚ his meaning of the title “The Things They Carried” and the way the author and his characters deal with death
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Alex Martin Comp II Short Story Essay “The Things They Carried” By Tim O’Brien The Significant of Objects “The Things They Carried” By Tim O’Brien was a short story based during the Vietnam war that was hard on a soldier named Jimmy Cross and his platoon called alpha company ‚ This story is about the physical objects they carried that had emotion and significant meanings. O’Brien uses physical objects that the soldiers to show the emotion burdens that resulted from being in and at the war
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Kelsey Cassebaum ENG102 September 19‚ 2014 In “The Things They Carried‚” Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is torn between being a good leader to his soldiers and his love for Martha‚ thus making him a truly dynamic character. A dynamic character is someone who undergoes an important‚ internal change because of action in the plot. For example‚ personality or attitude would be two that play a role in against Lieutenant. Jimmy cross shows us in the story just what a dynamic character is‚ and I am going to explain
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Professor Hagan English 8 April 16‚ 2012 The Things They Carried During the Vietnam War Jimmy Cross was tasked as the lieutenant in the Vietnam War in Tim Obrien’s The Things They Carried. He took responsibility full of challenges past warfare. The war was a very psychological war for the positioned soldiers in the army. The strange environment that included shady places‚ waiting corners‚ diseases and death other than the problems they carried from home. Every soldier there held on to something
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Leonard Cheah 814725425 “Material Allies” In the short story The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross leads a band of his men through the hills and swamps of Vietnam while dealing with the psychological agony of both his love for Martha and the safety of his men. In wartime however‚ it is known that your fellow man is anything from safe. Much of the men have camaraderie‚ but know that at any moment the person sitting next to them could be killed. This is where the
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In the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien the author tells about his experiences in the Vietnam war by telling various war stories. The quote‚ "It has been said of war that it is a world where the past has a strong grip on the present‚ where machines seemed sometimes to have more will power than me‚ where nice boys (girls) were attracted to them‚ where bodies ruptured and burned and stand‚ where the evil thing trying to kill you could look disconnecting human and where except in your imagination
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Intro: “They carried all they could bear‚ and then some‚ including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.” In The Things They Carried‚ O’Brien suggests that the soldiers do not just carry physical items but also emotional loads which burden them more so than anything the war conjures factually. The three soldiers that carry this theme the most throughout the story are Jimmy Cross‚ Norman Bowker‚ and the story version of Tim O’Brien. 1. Jimmy Cross‚ as the leader of
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Worth The Weight? “War is hell‚” a famous quote from General William Tecumseh Sherman. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ we perceive the hell that men in war undergo. This enticing story is about the personal‚ mental‚ and physical hardships of soldiers in the Vietnam War. The title is revealing to the story itself by describing the items the soldiers carried. The tangible items that they lugged around are listed to the reader‚ but we are also shown the emotional burdens that lay deep in
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The things they carried‚by Tim O’brien "Oh man‚ you fuckin’ trashed the fucker. You scrambled his sorry self‚ look at that‚ you did‚ you laid him out like fuckin’ Shredded Wheat." I chose to start off my essay with this particular exert from the book because I think that it very much represents the story in itself. Azar said this‚ after Tim (supposedly) killed a Vietnamese soldier with a hand grenade. It shows that in times of war‚ how callous men can become. However‚ callousness varies‚
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