composed of multiple stories of soldiers during the Vietnam War. These stories give an insight into the physical and emotional burden experienced by the soldiers in the war, however in the concluding chapter “The Lives of the Dead,” it takes a different direction. Instead of focusing on the realities of combat, this chapter focuses on the childhood memory of the narrator and author O’Brien, showing us his first love, Linda, and how she had a tragic death. This departure from the war narrative is not
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return home from World War I and the problems he faces when dealing with his homecoming and transition back towards a normal life. After the fighting overseas commenced, it took Krebs a year to finally leave Europe and return to his family in Oklahoma. Once home, he found it hard to talk about all he had seen in his tour of duty overseas, which should be attributed to the fact that he saw action in some of the bloodiest, most crucial battles towards the culmination of the war. Therefore, Krebs difficulty
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The Vietnam War was an extremely controversial and divided time in American History. From the government lying to the public, media favoring an anti-war viewpoint, to the graphic images and stories of what was occurring an ocean away, many people were affected by the war and lives were changed from it. Many are still alive today to tell their stories. Two different people were interviewed, one who experienced the war from the eyes of an teenager at home, and the other an Air Force veteran that served
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Chris Kyle, an american war hero whos tour lasted between 1999-2009, four tours in total. Although he isnt a well washed authour, his words flow together smoothly to get his point across. If you find his writing a little crude, you will also find it bluntyly honest. Kyles controverisial tone and attitude give the right first person outlook on how war really is. His story starts with his upbringginggs; family philosopishes, personal goals, aspirations and all. He tells about his priorities and
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David Nguyen’s presentation was well ordered and structured to where the listeners could understand the short story without reading it. He did “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson talking about author background, story background, cultural context, themes, and symbolism to help everyone understand the story better. He maintained eye contact with the audience so that they understood that he was prepared and knew the topic he was presenting. Overall, he received a five for his preparedness and organizations
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In Englander’s literary work, “Free Fruit for Young Widows” (2010), he tells a story of two men, Shimmy Gezer and Private Tendler who later becomes Professor Tendler, who both survived the Holocaust as young boys. In the years after the Holocaust, we find these two young men as members of the Israeli Army in the same platoon. During this scene of the story, Englander (2010), introduces the two main characters, Shimmy and Tendler, and profoundly brings to the reader’s
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of language, consisting of many spoken words. A word can occur in a speech, sentence, statement, story, or news. Words give us the ability to communicate. Words have played an important role in our world today. Whether a word is spoken or written, words have the power to change our world. As you improve your critical thinking, reading, and writing skills by looking at the stories, you will understand how words play a major impact. Try and use your words and respond and think critically. You might
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It’s Not Just Physical: The Things They Carried Through Vietnam Soldiers of the Vietnam War marched miles and miles through the humid broiling forests of Vietnam. So the question every soldier asks themselves is, to hump or not to hump, though maybe not in those exact words. As Tim O’Brien so eloquently puts it in his novel, The Things They Carried, “To carry something was to hump it” (O’Brien 3). Already carrying twelve to eighteen pounds of necessities, an item must be of great significance for
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smartphones) play a major role in our everyday lives. It’s almost as if its become a part of us - a new limb, you might say. Believe it or not, though, it wasn’t always like that. In the essay “Time and Distance Overcome” (2008) Eula Biss tells the story of how the phone initially struggled in America, but finally succeeded and become a normal thing in every household. She uses ethos in the first paragraph by showing that she knows history and what went on at the time. This increases her credibility
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Within the three novels read this semester for class, a range of different gender roles played an important role for the central focus of the each of the main characters within each of the novels. Nakano Hitori’s Train Man follows the story between two young people in their 20s as seen through the eyes of the boy in the relationship as he posts to ask for advice and encouragement from an online message board. They meet on the Tokyo train, when the boy, Train Man, a self-proclaimed geek, acts out
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