Tim O’Brien’s use of imagery in “The Man I Killed” can be compared to that purpose of imagery. In “The Man I Killed” character O’Brien explicitly describes the images that cross his mind as he stares down at the man he might have killed. He goes from describing the man’s injuries with graphic detail to then immediately taking note of a “butterfly making its way along
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In “The Things They Carried‚” a short story by Tim O’Brien‚ the reader is able to see‚ in great detail‚ each of the characters ways of dealing with the atrocities of the Vietnam War by what they choose to carry; how symbolically they use these objects as a means for remembrance of what they have left behind‚ to escape what they deal with each day‚ and for some‚ a false sense of security and/or control over the violence and death that surrounds them. Each soldier in the story “humps” an object
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The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien uses narratives to evoke various thoughts within the reader. Yet Mary Anne Bell’s story is a cautionary tale of the influence the battlefield has on a person. One of the medics‚ Mark Fossie‚ decides to bring his high school sweetheart right into the war‚ not comprehending the cost of his action. The war turns innocent‚ naïve soldiers into brutal‚ desensitized killers; Mary Anne being no exception. Her tale illustrates how the war physically and mentally alters
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soldiers of World War I bare is utterly incomprehensible to the common man. Through all the chaos‚ the soldiers never quite knew what they were doing‚ they were drafted‚ and from that point on for the next four years came the nonstop misery and false hope of the war ending. The soldiers of the war never had a hatred for the opposing side‚ it was forced murder; they saw each other with pity from time to time which the authors Erich Maria Remarque‚ August Stramm‚ and Tim O’ Brien exemplify
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Soldiers looked for ways to communicate their experience to those who were not soldiers. O”Brien‚ Komunyakka‚ and Owen are soldiers who each wrote a text describing soldiers at war from their personal point of view. O”Brien writes to get others to understand the physical‚ mental‚ and emotional things soldiers carried during war. Komunyakka writes to get others to understand how the soldiers must face death and reality at the same time while also having emotions as any other human does. Owen writes
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people receive stories‚ some true and false. According to Tim O’Brien‚ a true war story does not generalize nor indulge in abstraction or analysis (O’Brien 84). In the stories “This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen” and “Dulce et Decorum est” the authors illustrates nightmarish actions between soldiers in squads and prisoner in concentration camps. The atrocities they illustrate through the use of imagery and choice in words‚ according to Tim O’Brien‚ are a true war story and without them the story
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is true or not. Throughout the story the narrator says how many war stories are not true so I do not know what to believe. The author‚ Tim O’Brien‚ says that nothing can be believed to be true‚ which makes the story ironic. He says‚ “In war you lose your sense of the definite‚ hence your sense of truth itself‚ and therefore it’s safe to say that in a true war story nothing much is ever very true” (95). I would think that this story is not true after that being said.
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thing. It has confounding effects on everyone involved. Some people take it well‚ while others have such horrible experiences that it scares them for life and affects them even after the war when they return home. Ernest Hemingway’s Soldier’s Home and Tim O’Brien’s How to Tell a True War Story are two great examples of literature that express’ what any particular soldier can go through upon returning home. Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome is a very common sickness that soldiers come down with after returning
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Truth and non-truth are several aspects emphasized in Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried. Throughout the novel‚ O’Brien “[blurs] the lines between fiction and nonfiction” (Smith)‚ and explores how using fiction to convey the war affects the readers more as they learn about the soldiers. By using juxtaposition and by incorporating fictional parts in the novel‚ O’Brien shows how truth is less important in war stories than non-truth since non-truth makes the reader look at war stories at a
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The Vietnam War was a place of death‚ destruction‚ and confusion. Not only was the war a failure‚ but many soldiers were forced to fight. This lead to many negative effects that I must bring to your attention in this paper. The negative effects on soldiers during and after the war were depression‚ regret‚ desensitization‚ insanity‚ and the loss of friends. One of the major and most common effects of the war was depression. It can lead to many things. Most of the time it leads to an unhappy lifestyle
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