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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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Things They Carried Tim Obrien
1,106 wordsDecisions are an inevitable part of life. The effects of our decisions that we make will have a significant impact on our lives. In The Things They Carried, Tim OBrien was faced with a critical decision. My senior year of high school, I too was faced with a decision that would effect where I would go, what I would do, and who Id be with. Every senior in high school was faced with this same big Senior Decision of which college to choose. We all realized quickly that there were so many choices out...
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Made Them Feel Things They Carried
613 wordsThe fear of death and guilt play an important role Tim OBriens story The Things They Carried. The story deals with not only the physical risk of war, but also with the emotional effects if has on the young soldiers. Although death affects everyones behavior differently, death is the main driving force for behavioral changes in war. This awareness that the soldiers have that they could be killed anytime motivates then to act in a way they normally would not. By selecting details that reveal the d...
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War In The Modern World
1,135 wordsWar has fascinated the minds of the greats throughout history. Its concepts and understandings have been passed on to us through the few surviving works of those, whose lives were touched by war, in an ancient archive. Some saw war as an ordinary, inevitable phenomenon that has a place among natural order of human lives (Jacob Walter), while others interpreted it as devastating and terrible deviation from the natural order of things (W. T. Sherman). Over the course of our archival readings we ha...
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Things They Carried Jimmy Cross
705 wordsIn 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 life as livable as poss...
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Things They Carried Jimmy Cross
389 wordsThe Things They Carried: Possessions of Character The Things They Carried, by Tim OBrien, contains many references to possessions of character. Many things Lt. Cross carries were carried by all, including: military equipment, stationery, photographs, diseases, food, the land of Vietnam itself, their lives, and even more. OBrien highlights these along with special things that Lt. Jimmy Cross carries. He, thus, reveals something of what Cross values. Belongings reflect his character and thoughts. ...
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Things They Carried Rainy River
2,255 wordsDecisions are an inevitable part of life. The effects of our decisions that we make will have a significant impact on our lives. In The Things They Carried, Tim O? Brien was faced with a critical decision. My senior year of high school, I too was faced with a decision that would effect where I would go, what I would do, and who I? d be with. Every senior in high school was faced with this same big? Senior Decision? of which college to choose. We all realized quickly that there were so many choic...
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Didn T Care Things They Carried
1,334 wordsHow does death affect the behavior of people? Although death affects everyone? s behavior differently, knowledge of one? s imminent death is a main force behind behavioral changes. This knowledge causes emotions that motivate people to look for changes, that make them have to adjust. It makes them find different ways to cope with war. This is the reason that causes the characters in a book called, The Things They Carried, by Tim O? Brien to have to change due to their situation. They are in the ...
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