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Tim Obrien The Things They Carry
877 wordsThe Heavy Burden After reading Tim Obrien's The Things They Carried, it helped me better explore and understand the emotions and experiences of the soldiers surrounded by the Vietnam War. The main character of the story is the leader of the platoon First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. OBrien created protagonist, Jimmy Cross, to represent all other men in his platoon. The author assigns the most importance to Cross with the aspects of his personal life because it allows the reader to see the intensity o...
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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 Bonnie And Clyde
1,716 wordsFirst Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of fight pretending. He would imagine romantic camping trips into ...
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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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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Ted Lavender
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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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Ted Lavender
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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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 Place In The World
1,822 wordsThe Things They Carried by Tim OBrien: Adult in Adolescence For the young men that fought in the Vietnam War, seeing the death and chaos of intense jungle warfare was more than they could handle. Coming to grips with the actions they had to carryout during this war was physiologically challenging for all of them. Even after the war was long done with, the veterans of the Vietnam war were still suffering, but on another level. Many war veterans had chosen to forget their days of war and move on w...
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Things They Carried Jimmy Cross
1,251 wordsThe Things They Carried What is it that really helps troops survive war? It is said that faith in humanity and religion are known to fizzle amongst times of wars; therefore almost every man will tell you it was the hope of coming back to loved ones and family. Ask any man that has been to war what it was like, what was going on inside his head, what he felt when he smelled death, what he felt when he caused death. The answer, inevitably, will be one that could never be put to words, an answer th...
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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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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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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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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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