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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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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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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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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A Secret Hero At the beginning‚ Tim O’Brien’s story‚ “On the Rainy River”‚ suggests to be about a story never told. He never told his story to anyone‚ not his wife‚ not his siblings‚ or his parents. The author‚ Tim O’Brien uses condemnation of the Vietnam War‚ his decision to run‚ and expatriation versus the war to illustrate the conflicts he faced in his life. The conflicts make the reader think about how the decision would reflect his life in every way. Tim O’Brien’s conflicts begin when he
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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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2013 On The Rainy River prompt In Tim O’Brien’s “On the Rainy River”‚ Tim is presented with a conflict that would change his life depending on which choice he makes. Tim narrates the story in a mix of present day and flashbacks‚ being that the voice of the younger Tim O’Brien is less mature and less morally complex than present day Tim. In the summer of 1968‚ Tim‚ a recent college graduate‚ receives a draft notice to fight in The Vietnam War. This is where the conflict begins. Tim O’Brien‚ while
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as true as any actual war story. Furthermore‚ many of the characters and experiences found in these stories have been created from composites of real people and places. Essentially‚ the stories are first-hand accounts of things that never happened. Tim O’Brien uses this fictional world to negate death‚ to emphasize meaningful events and character traits‚ and to enrich the stories with feelings as oppose to factual details.
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narrator and protagonist is Tim O’Brien. This is due to the fact that the entire story is written in first person except for the first chapter. This can be misleading to the reader about who the story is truly about. It is also confusing because the beginning of the book gives the impression that the narrator’s job was to merely tell stories of different soldiers. Only when one reads further into the book does Tim’s integral role become apparent. In order to understand how Tim is the protagonist‚ one
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