In the story “The Man I Killed” the author Tim O’ Brien is the character in the story but the story does not use first person. This is because the story is not revolved around him but revolved on the man he has just killed in the Vietnam war. The character in this story focuses on the dead man’s physicality and the story he has fabricated for him. The character in this story seems to be in shock because he does not speak or stop looking at the dead soldier‚ “Kiowa shook his head. There was some silence
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In the story “The Man Killed” By Tim O’Brien‚ the narrator stares in silence at the man he has just murdered. He imagines all sorts of things and describes every part of him‚ from the blood running out of his wounds to his dainty long fingers. He‚ then starts telling us about his life and visualizes his past‚ present and future. The narrator envisions this man of My Khe as a scholar‚ not a fighter; he believes he is someone who went to war only to fulfill his patriotic duty. During this whole
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Carried” by Tim O’Brien is a short story in which he talks about his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam. The idea it gives you of why the story is named like that is quite literal. O’Brien talks mainly about what they carried and brought home after the war like their ‘post traumatic stress disorder’‚ all the memories of guilt and fear‚ and some other physical objects like matches‚ morphines‚ rifles‚ and candy. For example‚ when Tim O’Brien goes on telling two stories‚ “The Man I Killed” and “Ambush”he
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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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“The Man I Killed” Guilt takes over ones mind and conquers the body because someone thinks constantly about a memory that previously occured. In Tim O’Brien’s‚ “The Man I Killed”‚ he starts with a list of physical features of the man he killed with a grenade in My Khe. He was imagining what the man’s life must have been like. O’Brien thinks of stories and personalities about the man he murdered in the war. He describes his feelings and says‚ “Nothing nobody could do… stop staring” (O’Brien 1).
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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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he didn’t want to stop because he knew as soon as he would stop he would be afraid‚ and get very emotional. He didn’t want to die like Billy did‚ he didn’t want to die to the thought of him dying. Berlin’s reasoning for joining the army I
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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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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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