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Things They Carried Main Character
860 wordsReflections on "The Things They Carried" Analyzing the storys craftsmanship Tim OBrien wrote a story that is known as "The Things They Carried. " It is a carefully crafted, detailed account of a Lieutenant and his men, the time period being right in the middle of the Vietnam war. In most war stories the author spends most of his or her time describing actions and events to the reader, trying to really put the reader "right there" in the middle of everything that is happening. However, OBrien dri...
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Chocolate Chip Cookies Baking Chip Cookies Baking Oils
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Don Juan As Byron Introspective
1,189 wordsThe works of George Gordon, Lord Byron have long been controversial, nearly as controversial as his lifestyle. Gordon Byron was born with a clubfoot and his sensitivity to it haunted his life and his works. Despite being a very handsome child, a fragile self-esteem made Byron extremely sensitive to criticism, of himself or of his poetry and he tended to make enemies rather quickly. The young Byron was often unhappy and lonely any many of his works seem to be a sort of introspective therapy. Thro...
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Book Was Written Catcher In The Rye
1,969 wordsIn 1964, J. D. Salinger composed a novel titled The Catcher in the Rye that became quite controversial and was banned from several schools because of inappropriate content. The story is pretty dramatic, but it has many comical incidents. The book is trying to project the idea that you can run from your problems as much as you want; however it is inevitable that you face them. You cant run forever! If this were a scary movie, the evil laughter would start now. Our main character Holden Caulfield ...
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Of Jimmy Cross In The Things They Carried
570 wordsTim O'Brien's story, "The Things They Carried, " is open ending. Thus, the ending becomes a new beginning. Jimmy Cross undergoes a transformation, in which he matures from infantry to a lieutenant. Tim O'Brien provides his audience with a very descriptive image of both the physical and mental "things" the characters in the story carried. He gives the reader insight as to how the characters are physically and mentally dealing with the turmoil of the war. However, in the end of the story - Jimmy C...
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Things They Carried
1,718 words... h-as-catch can. At various times, in various situations, they carried M- 14 's and CAR- 15 's and Swedish K's and grease guns and captured AK- 47 s and Chi Com's and RPG's and Simon carbines and black-market Uzi's and. 38 -caliber Smith & Wesson handguns and 66 mm LAW's and shotguns and silencers and blackjacks and bayonets and C- 4 plastic explosives. Lee Strunk carried a slingshot; a weapon of last resort, he called it. Mitchell Sanders carried brass knuckles. Kiowa carried his grandfa...
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1,743 words... es of ammunition. You want my opinion, Mitchell Sanders said, there's a definite moral here. He put his hand oil the dead boy's wrist. He was quiet for a time, as if counting a pulse, then he patted the stomach, almost affectionately, and used Kiowa's hunting hatchet to remove the thumb. Henry Dobbins asked what the moral was. Moral? You know- Moral. Sanders wrapped the thumb in toilet paper and handed it across to Norman Bowker. There was no blood. Smiling, he kicked the boy's head, watched...
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1,745 words... light. For a few moments, perhaps, they would fall silent, lighting a joint and tracking its passage from man to man, inhaling, holding in the humiliation. Scary stuff, one of them might say. But then someone else would grin or flick his eyebrows and say, Roger-dodger, almost cut me a new asshole, almost. There were numerous such poses. Some carried themselves with a sort of wistful resignation, others with pride or stiff soldierly discipline or good humor or macho zeal. They were afraid of ...
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Things They Carried Ted Lavender
1,030 wordsWar is a very interesting subject. Some say that it is inevitably unavoidable while some say that there is absolutely no reason for such a thing. However, there is one aspect of war that remains constant. The battles, in some way, change all of the people who are involved. Soldiers who become emotionally involved in a war risk altering their minds for the rest of their life. These alterations can either help or hinder the person. A good place to find examples of such events is in literature. The...
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948 wordsThe artist, Edouard Manet created his piece The Railway in 1873. Manet used many different contrasting features in his work of art. We can see that Manet clearly was intrigued by feminine fashion (which, as Baudelaire had pointed out, was the opposite kind of beauty from the classical and eternal hence it was a modern beauty and Manet was the beginner of modern painting. Looking at spare canvases of Manet's paintings, one may meditate on the relation of Manet's still lives to the cultural norms ...
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Things They Carried York Times Book Review
1,484 wordsThe Things They Carried Tim OBrien wrote an interesting story about soldiers of the Vietnam War, called The Things They Carried. The main theme of the story is the weight of the objects that American soldiers had to carry on them during their passes through the enemy territory. These things included not only the armor and burdensome objects but also their confusions, grief and heavy emotions of desire. The central point of the story groups around the death of Ted Lavender, who was one of the sol...
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Happened To The Author Wonderful Summer Poem
737 wordsAnalysis of the poems The title of the first poems is Moths, and it suggests some kind of the summer theme in the poem. The speaker seems to be a male person, who has had a great summer, but now all that is left to him are his memories. We may presume that the author of the poem is a very romantic person. The way he describes moon, lavender and fuchsia tells that this person perceives nature as something special and that the sensations nature gives to him are very important to him. The author do...
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Things They Carried Ted Lavender
1,339 wordsThe Things They Carried In his story The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien describes a group of soldiers marching through Vietnam. He does this by describing the items that each of them carries with him during the march. The things that the soldiers carry with them are both tangible and intangible items and what these things are depends upon the individual soldier. They carry the basic necessities for survival (if one can consider such things as chocolate a necessity) and the bare minimum to make...
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Song Tra Bong Things They Carried
2,285 wordsIn Timothy Obrien's novel, The Things They Carried, a number of insightful themes are forwarded by the author. One theme in particular interests me the most; the subject area is how people handle their emotions through the avoidance or distortion of reality. Specifically, throughout the novel a number of characters respond to the emotionally charged realities they are confronted with in one of two major ways, distortion or escapism. This pattern, shown throughout the novel, surveys one manner in...
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Shrubs And Bushes Mediterranean Vegetation Low
587 wordsMediterranean Vegetation Mediterranean vegetation This is an essay about vegetation typical of a Mediterranean climate. In this essay you will find out about how plants survive and multiply in a dry heat and the different types that exist. I will also compare Mediterranean vegetation with that of a colder climate. The regions that we will be looking at are those that border the Mediterranean sea. These are, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Albania,...
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Ted Lavender
726 wordsPaper 3 Tim Obrien's The Things They Carried is a chronicle of the events that take place in the life of one army squad. OBrien narrates these events as they are lived by Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. Jimmy Cross not only carries his necessities but also the burden of being responsible for his mens lives. The story begins describing the non-love letters Jimmy Cross receives from the woman with whom he is madly in love. He realizes that his love is not reciprocated but is nonetheless hopeful that one d...
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Things They Carried Deal With Death
1,121 wordsThe 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 authors style of writing, his meaning of the title The Things They Carried and the way the author and his characters deal with death. This story was written with a vari...
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Don Juan Lord Byron
3,362 wordsGeorge Gordon Byron a Natural Born Poet Their are many different opinions on the written works of George Gordon Byron which could include one very big question. Was he a natural born poet or simply a product of abuse and mental illness. His writings may have been more a way to ease his pa and suffering rather than a natural talent. Perhaps his writings were a form of self therapy? Throughout his writings and life history there is much evidence to suggest that his poetry was being greatly influen...
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