Going After Cacciato‚ an epic novel written by Tim O’Brien‚ is about a platoon of men going away without leave (AWOL) searching for a young man named Cacciato in the imagination of a man of the platoon named Paul Berlin. In Going After Cacciato the "tea party‚" between the AWOL platoon and Li Van Hgoc contributes greatly to the novel by adding to the confusion and teaching the reader how to deal with the war and the ’noise.’ The first thing that this "tea party" does is that it introduces the
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Going After Cacciato Tim O’Brien Online Information For the online version of BookRags’ Going After Cacciato Premium Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-going-after-cacciato/ Copyright Information ©2000-2007 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction
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War requires unity behind a cause and a war without a cause leads to chaos. In Going After Cacciato‚ Paul Berlin‚ a soldier is faced with the harsh reality of war in Vietnam and imagines his journey to Paris‚ a place that stands for peace and hope. The author‚ Tim O’Brien‚ depicts Paul Berlin’s ambivalent views—whether to stand by his obligation to serve his country‚ even when it leads to destruction or to follow his own values to gain a sense of his true intention of gaining a sense of tranquility
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In “Sonny’s Blues‚” the narrator tells his relationship story with his drug-addicted brother‚ Sonny. Sonny is a musician who is unable to escape the ghetto‚ and a character suffered from his heroin addiction. In the absence of their parents (after their parents’ death)‚ the narrator tries to be a father figure to Sonny‚ but the father figure narrator is not able to save his brother‚ Sonny from the heroin addiction. The drug kills‚ Sonny‚ but according to the narrator‚ his sufferings were what that
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Fear and Duty in Going After Cacciato Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato might be set during the Vietnam war‚ but at its core it is a novel about fear. The main character‚ soldier Paul Berlin‚ is completely motivated‚ controlled‚ and surrounded by fear. When Paul Berlin first arrives at the war he feels annoyed by the derision he receives from his superiors but at the same time admits that “...the war scared him silly‚ but this was something he hoped to bring under control” (O’Brein 38). This statement
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Form Jordon Hemingway Period 6 Going After Cacciato (Fiction) By Tim O’Brien Author: Born October 1st‚ 1946‚ O’Brien grew up in Minnesota. He graduated with a BA in political science in 1968 from Macalester College. Although against the war in Vietnam‚ O’Brien signed up anyway and was assigned to 3rd Platoon‚ A co.‚ 5th Battalion‚ 46th Infantry. His time spent in Vietnam gave him all the experiences necessary to write Going After Cacciato. After the war‚ O’Brien started schooling at
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considering an angel led the three wise men to baby Jesus‚ but other people may see angels as a bad omen. If they see one‚ they may think of death or the end of the world. Lieutenant Sidney Martin is portrayed as a morally ambiguous character in Going After Cacciato‚ as
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In Going After Cacciato‚ Tim O’Brien uniquely combines the gritty reality of combat with a dreamlike‚ or surrealistic‚ state. Surrealism is a mean of uniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy joins in the everyday rational world. From the beginning of the novel‚ the surrealistic experiences obviously occurred‚ but as the story continued‚ the story went passed surrealism and almost became delusional. The main protagonist‚ Paul Berlin‚
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Style and Tone Essay Style is the way in which something is written‚ as opposed to the meaning of what is written. The writer uses a certain style and tone to craft the story. Style refers to the writer’s choice of diction‚ sentence structure‚ tone and organization. No One’s Mystery by Elizabeth Tallent shows style and tone throughout the whole story‚ which shows reality vs. fantasy and being in love with someone you shouldn’t. Diction refers to the class of words than an author decides is
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Writing styles & Tone There are many different types of tone and writing styles that need to be explored with communication with others on-line because we don’t know our classmates or our instructor on a personal level; we don’t know the different personality types we would be dealing with. We would want to remember that email doesn’t have a face and what may seem like helpful comments can actually carry negative connotations. When communicating with others it would need to be natural
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