Carried, is a novel written by Tim O'Brien that examines the lives of multiple foot soldiers before, after, and during the Vietnam War. Among that, it also delves deeper into the surreal and ambiguous nature of war, and the physical and mental trials that eventually leads to alienation and the questioning of the soldiers role in the war. This paragraph revolves around the crushed potential of a soldier, who had a promising life ahead of him but was drafted for war. O'Brien writes, " His life was now
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“The Things They Carried” written by Tim O’Brien is a book based on the life of the author who was a soldier in the Vietnam war. The book can be said to be unchronological since there is a mixture of the past and the present, life after and during the war. O’Brien talks about the experiences he went through as well as some of the ones his friends went through. Even though the novel was written based on the Vietnam War, there are multiple times where the author states that the novel is fiction. In
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excerpt from Tim O’Brien’s “On the Rainy River”, the author communicates his internal conflictions about the war. The rhetor of this excerpt uses both syntax and imagery in order to justify his decision and earn ethical acceptance from the audience. O’Brien includes imagery as a method to support and propel his purpose. The audience has perceived O’Brien as a wimp for considering fleeing to Canada to avoid the war, but his use of imagery proves just how appealing Canada is. As O’Brien gazes across
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The Things They Carried is a variety of short stories all put into one book by Tim O'Brien. The stories in this book tell what life was like during the Vietnam War for many of the young soldiers, and their thoughts and feelings when they returned to the United States. Tim O’Brien earned a Purple Heart when he got hit with shrapnel in a grenade attack in Vietnam (NEA, 2007). During the book one of the main characters talked about goes by the name as Kiowa. Kiowa was a Native American and also a Baptist
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PTSD in Ambush by Tim O'Brien “Ambush” by Tim O'Brien explains how the main character suffers from PTSD. This text talks his flashbacks from the war he was in that is causing PTSD. It also talks about his feelings about killing someone in the war and how he feels about telling his daughter he did so. When he is remembering events from the war he remembers two things. He remembers exactly how the young man looked and the way his gun was pointing. He remembers thinking to himself “why should I kill
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Throughout the novel, Tim O'Brien uses many rhetorical devices, representing irony in the chapter “Church”. When I was reading the chapter, I didn't really notice the pieces of irony in the chapter. In the chapter “Church”, Tim O'Brien makes a very ironic statement on the monks behalf. “The two monks were working on the m60”. This quote is significant because it shows the the two monks ( which are supposed to be people of peace and love ), cleaning a m60. An m60 is a heavy machine gun that is created
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to the stories we tell. We all assume that if the story we are telling isn’t intense enough that no one will listen. Tim O'Brien makes his stories from war more exaggerated so people will listen. The story of Kiowa drowning is a true war story because O’brien switched things around to show the truth. While the story was also a lie because of the switched facts and lies. O’Brien tells so many lies that it is hard for him to tell lies from the truth. It’s hard to tell what truly happened from what
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Carried by Tim O’Brien ENG 1300 W5A2 Andrea Carr South University Online The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien “The Things They Carried” is one of several short stories written by Tim O’Brien that brilliantly portrays a squad of young American soldiers in the Vietnam War. Each of the short stories builds on the last but in The Things They Carried the author places focus on how immature boys cope and their transformation into young men and responsible leaders. O’Brien is not a
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who fled America were draft resistors, not draft dodgers. The novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a collection of stories about American soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War. The narrator, Tim O’Brien, was in a platoon of soldiers based in Vietnam and survived through the war.
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Before the United States became militarily involved in defending the sovereignty of South Vietnam, it had to, as one historian recently put it, "invent" the country and the political issues at stake there. The Vietnam War was in many ways a wild and terrible work of fiction written by some dangerous and frightening story tellers. First the United States decided what constituted good and evil, right and wrong, civilized and uncivilized, freedom and oppression for Vietnam, according to American standards;
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