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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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Ministry Of Truth 1 And 2
3,017 wordsSummary Chapter 1 and 2 We are introduced to Winston Smith the main character of the story. Works at Ministry of truth. Ministry of truth is one of four government buildings in destroyed London, the main city of Airstrip One, a province of Oceania. Year is 1984 and three countries are at war, Oceania, Eurasia and East asia. Oceania is run by the party whose leader is Big Brother. Winston is sick of his life in the ruined city and decides to keep a diary. This is against the law in Oceania. He fe...
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Things They Carried Black And White
3,678 wordsSummary of Symbolism Presented by Vietnam/War In reading Philip Caputo's book, A Rumor of War, I discovered that he strongly presented a similar idea to that of Tim OBrien in his book, The Things They Carried. This is the idea that war can not bring or cause good, it only produces varying amounts of evil. Philip Caputo volunteered for the Marines because he was looking for a way to prove himself, and he saw the Marines as an honorable way to do so. He also originally saw the war as glorious. How...
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James Joyce Irish Language
1,235 wordsDeep down in the woods Observer: What is In the Forest about? Edna OBrien: Ostensibly its about a triple murder in a forest, but I believe that the novelist is the psychic and moral historian of his or her society. So its about that part of Ireland I happen to know very well. Its about that part of Ireland, and the darkness that still prevails. Obs: Was there a specific moment of inspiration, like a news story? OBrien: News stories are anathema to fiction. I was researching a previous book and I...
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Things They Carried Convey The Idea
1,515 wordsTim Obrien's The Things They Carried is not a novel about the Vietnam War. It is a story about the soldiers and their experiences and emotions that are brought about from the war. OBrien makes several statements about war through these dynamic characters. He shows the violent nature of soldiers under the pressures of war, he makes an effective antiwar statement, and he comments on the reversal of a social deviation into the norm. By skillfully employing the stylistic technique of specific, consc...
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Young Woman Young Man
1,969 wordsThe country girls home truths In the Forest Edna OBrien 208 pp, Weidenfeld A friend tells this story about Edna OBrien; he was perhaps 10 at the time. His father, a writer of some renown, had a cabin in the woods, a holiday home for his large family. Guests sometimes came and shared the cosy if cramped quarters, including a bathroom at the far end of a kitchen where the writer and his family liked to sit at the table for leisurely meals and animated talk. During one such meal my friend recalls t...
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