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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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Things They Carried Convey The Idea
1,508 wordsCritical Review: Tim Obrien's The Things They Carried Tim 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 skillfull...
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