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Courage in "The Things They Carried", 2004.
A discussion of the theme of courage in Tim O' Brien's "The Things They Carried."
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses Tim O' Brien's "The Things They Carried" simultaneously as an exploration of American involvement in the war in Vietnam and as an examination of a single soldier's feelings about himself. It focuses on the theme of coming to terms with different kinds of courage.
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"One of the most important lessons that we each acquire as we grow up is the fact that there are a number of different ways of being brave and that few of us has as great a measure of courage along any of the vectors of bravery as we would like to believe .."
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Tim O'Brien's, "The Things They Carried", 2002.
This paper discusses the different themes found in Tim O'Brien's book, "The Things They Carried."
2,155 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper examines Tim O'Brien's, "The Things They Carried," which is a compilation of several short stories or vignettes, about the experiences of the men who fought in the Vietnam War. The author uses commentary from two other literary sources who have analyzed the materials that were covered in O'Brien's book. The author discusses how O'Brien's background influenced the structure and content of the book. Some of the themes found in the different stories include courage, loneliness and memories and how the men carry all of these, along with their supplies, with them througout the war. This writer feels that it was the stories and the intimacy of the sharing of these feelings that helped many of these men survive the war, relatively intact.
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"Characterization is one of the most important parts of this novel, and O'Brien manages to create vivid characters that are sympathetic and very real at the same time. How can a man named Rat be sympathetic? It is partly because of the thread of storytelling that is the backbone of the novel. "For Rat Kiley. . . facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe" (O'Brien 101). Much of O'Brien's novel reads like the folktales of old, passed down orally from generation to generation. Rat Kiley is clearly a born storyteller, for he makes his listeners think and think hard while he spins his tales."
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Analysis of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children", 2002.
This paper provides a discussion of Bertolt Brecht?s "Mother Courage and Her Children", focusing in particular on adversity, courage and survival.
1,320 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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An analysis of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children", this book report delves into the themes of motherly love, sacrifice, survival, courage and heroism. A close analysis of the book, the relations between the characters, and the messages that author Brecht is sending the reader, this report in particular emphasizes the strength and admirable qualities of the main protagonists.
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"Nothing tests our mettle better than adversity, and there is no adversity greater and more trying than war. This appears to underlie Bertolt Brecht?s Mother Courage and Her Children, which is sharply and precisely set against the Thirty Years? War in certain parts of Sweden in 1624 and thereafter. Mother Courage?s valor and grit in nurturing her children and sustaining them by keeping her selling business hefty or surviving have been told and re-told, but the undertones never wear out and continue to reverberate how this brave mother- woman- person?s instinct to survive leads her to be more than herself in each stroke of tragedy. I view Brecht as proposing that the survival instinct will move a person to go quite far and do quite everything ? and anything in any way -- for those he or she loves and for himself or herself, or perish. I view Brecht?s characters Mother Courage and son Eilif as standing firmly for this life as if it is all there is, and with Swiss Cheese and Kattrin doing something else out-of-time and out-of-this-world but more heroic and more memorable."
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Stephen Crane?s ?The Red Badge of Courage?, 2004.
This paper discusses Stephen Crane?s ?The Red Badge of Courage?, the story of the life of one Union soldier during the Civil War.
1,005 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 35.95
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This paper explains that the reader of Stephen Crane?s ?The Red Badge of Courage?, initially notes the theme of courage in the opening scene, when the reader sees Henry regarding the warriors he learned about in school as personifications of courage. The author points out that, throughout the novel, the ability of Crane to describe courage in real, raw terms is particularly striking, especially in the way it evokes the understanding and sympathy of the reader. The paper stresses that, in addition to the strength of Crane?s language in evoking the feeling of courage, the author?s ability to describe the conditions of war with striking realism only serves to underscore the depth of courage it requires from its combatants.
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"In addition to Henry?s courage in the face of fear (for he most definitely is afraid after his first day of fighting), there are several other characters in the novel that exhibit courage in different ways. For example, Hasbrouck is not only the personification of bravery in his ability to ?lead his men into battle,? but also in his care of his men. In addition, Henry?s friend, Jim, is almost stoic in his ability to face the reality (and high probability) of death on the battlefield. Even Henry?s mother shows (perhaps the most difficult kind of courage), when she sends Henry to war in spite of her fear, and places her faith in the will of ?the Lord"."
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?The Things They Carried?, 2005.
A short review of Tim O'Brien's novel "The Things They Carried".
905 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper examines how a primary theme of "The Things They Carried" is baggage and burdens - both physical and mental in nature. It looks at how the things that the characters carry in the story function in both a literal and figurative nature. While all of the characters carry heavy physical loads during the war, they also carry heavy emotional loads, such as love, sadness, longing, and of course, fear. It also discusses how the physical loads that the characters carry throughout the story have certain significance to the emotional baggage that each character carries.
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"The characters in "The Things They Carried" possessed emotional baggage from the start of the war, as was evident in the letters that Jimmy Cross carried, and the New Testament that Kiowa carried, which connected to their pre-war lives. However, with war came emotional baggage that occurred during the war, on top of the previous burdens that the characters may have experienced. Jimmy Cross was a leader of a group of men at war, however when Tim Lavender, a young, scared soldier who embodied the fear that all of the soldiers shared, died, Jimmy Cross felt a great amount of responsibility for it. Cross felt that his longing for love and his obsession with Martha's letters got in the way of him being able to do his job correctly, and the fact that Lavender's death was preventable (which also displayed how expendable lives are in war), made Cross change forever. "
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"The Things They Carried" by Tim Obrien, 2003.
This paper analyzes the Vietnam War novel "The Things They Carried" by Pulitzer Prize winning Tim Obrien.
1,315 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper reviews the Vietnam War novel "The Things They Carried" by Tim Obrien, which analyzes the emotional baggage carried by the grunts. The paper points out that, in addition to physical objects, the soldiers carried madness, delusions, hallucinations, grudges. The author feel that whether the stories comprising the novel are literally true is irrelevant, because the emotions behind them are true.
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"The baggage the soldiers discarded and acquired in country is as significant as the baggage they brought with them. Once again, in ?The Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong??the greenies are the antithesis of John Wayne?s Green Berets. Those green berets were clean-shaven men. Men who slept in pajamas, on mattresses. Men who adopted dirty faced orphans with puppies and baseball caps. Men who protected the indigenous elderly, weak and infirm. Men who died almost soundlessly , bloodlessly, and always valiantly and never stupidly. Those recruiting poster green berets carried with them every western value ascribed to a fighting man by their countrymen from truth, justice and the American Way to baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet."
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Courage in Film, 2006.
Compares the theme of courage in "Erin Brokovich" and "Kill Bill".
956 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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The true story of Erin Brockovich shows the triumph of the single mom over huge corporate interests as an astounding example of human moral courage. Similarly, the story of The Bride in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 action film "Kill Bill" is entirely fictitious but demonstrates in exaggerated cinematographic form the value of physical courage. This paper examines the theme of courage and shows how it is portrayed throughout both movies.
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"Were it not for her rigorous traditional training sessions, The Bride would not have had the courage to take on a whole army of enemies as she did throughout the film. Her physical endurance during the training sessions enabled her to endure the remarkable amounts of pain she encountered through her battles. Kill Bill illustrates how physical and mental courage converge to strengthen character. The Bride's rewards were not fully realized until the sequel to Tarantino's movie, when the protagonist confronts Bill and reunites with her child."
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?The Things They Carried?, 2005.
A look at the concept of burdens in "The Things They Carried" by Tom O' Brien.
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Weight is an important metaphor in "The Things they carried". This paper explains that at the outset of the short story, by Tim O'Brien, the reader is given an account of the burden each soldier is carrying. With this physical burden the themes of his story began to grow. It discusses how with this effective metaphor O' Brien is able to mold the reader's understanding of the mental burdens being carried by the men in his story, for it is the mental burden which far outweighs the physical to men on the battlefield.
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"The mental burden defines a soldier's experience, and the mental burden exacts the most exhausting suffering on all soldiers. Soldiers learn early in their careers that physical burdens and physical suffering can be endured no matter the weight carried or the pain felt. As a soldier serves, his tolerance for these types of burdens grows and eventually becomes a sensation rarely reflected upon. The physical burden of equipment can be put down and physical pain endured is weakness leaving. It is the burdens which can not be relinquished that ware a soldier down. It is the mental weight of their experiences that cannot be let easily go. It is the description of these burdens that are most profound in the theme of the story and reveal the psychological experience of war. Soldiers carry much more than their equipment into battle. "
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"The Things They Carried", 2002.
An analysis of Tim O?Brien?s "The Things They Carried", short stories on the Vietnam War.
1,052 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 36.95
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The paper introduces "The Things They Carried" by Tim O?Brien, a collection of stories all involving the heavy emotional burden soldiers carry into the Vietnam War. It discusses how the book reads more like the memories of an old man, not ordered by chronology, but rather by the experiences of pain, tragedy and death that overcome a person in the moment. This paper explores O?Brien?s description of the soldiers? lives before, during and after the Vietnam War, as well as examines the real things that these soldiers carried with them into battle.
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"When the soldiers return home after the Vietnam War, life doesn?t get much better for them. Instead of a hero?s welcome they are met with ignorance and indifference, thereby making them feel alienated from routine life. A classic example of this is what Norman Bowker experiences upon his return. Norman found it difficult to think of life after the Vietnam War as relevant. Anyone who had not experienced the Vietnam War first-hand could not possibly understand its vulgarity or empathize with the soldiers who lived the war. Also, people back home were not interested in knowing about the Vietnam War. ?[The town] had no memory, therefore no guilt....It did not know shit about shit, and did not care to know.? (O?Brien, 1999, 143)."
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"Moral Courage", 2006.
A discussion of the book "Moral Courage".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper summarizes the 2003 book "Moral Courage". The paper discusses the book's assertion that leadership demands true moral courage, which the author defines as the willingness and ability to make ethical decisions in the face of conflicting forces and goals.
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"This book presents an aspect of ethical behavior and leadership, moral courage, needed to make brave, ethical decisions in the face of conflicting forces and goals...."
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"Red Badge of Courage", 2006.
This article studies the book "Red Badge of Courage" written by Stephen Crane regarding the Civil War.
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper looks at Stephen Crane's "Red Badge of Courage" which the writer considers to be one of the best books written about the Civil War. The writer looks at the realities of war and analyzes the main character Henry Fleming's thoughts and emotions regarding the war in his country, as he thinks only of the glory of being part of such an event. The writer exposes Henry's confused thoughts as his "red badge of courage," is only a wound that he receives by accident from a running soldier. The writer portrays that the book portrays the horror of war - any war - and shows that it is a sad story about the terrible things about war.
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"Like many young men, even those of today, the main character Henry Fleming learns of the war in his country and thinks only of the glory of being part of such an event. Although his mother clearly objects because she knows the horror of war, he enlists in the Union Army. It does not take long for Henry to realize that he does not know his own strengths and weaknesses. Will he be fearful if approached by the enemy? Will he be brave and a hero? Throughout the book, Henry's thoughts and emotions go back and forth between the wonders of war that he imagines and the reality in front of him where men "drop like sacks of laundry." "
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?The Things They Carried?, 2004.
A review of Tim O'Brien's Vietnam war novel, ?The Things They Carried?.
1,342 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper examines ?The Things They Carried? by Tim O' Brien, the story of 12 soldiers, members of the Third Platoon, Alpha Company, Fifth Battalion of the 16th Infantry, 198th Infantry Brigade of the American Division in the Vietnam War of 1969. It looks at how O?Brien relates his and his companions? desolate and fatal experiences during that war and how he uses those experiences to explore the complications of memory and trauma, the most lasting of the things he and his companions endured, and which have remained with him to this day. It examines how it lists the many things they carried into war that were more real and terrifying than bullets, guns, grenades, and disease, such as the deaths, injuries, and sicknesses, and the overall brokenness they had to face in fighting.
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"O?Brien gives major focus on the death of his closest friend, Kiowa throughout the book. It was a freak incident in that his own platoon killed him by mistake when it camped in a latrine on the banks of the song Tra Bong. It was plain to see why the author held Kiowa closest to his heart: Kiowa shared his sentiments about the cruelty of war. Kiowa was also a very compassionate and intelligent man, but precisely because of the kind of soul he was that O?Brien gave greater coverage of Kiowa?s very costly death than his life. It was a gutting loss he carried with great pain and could never get over with."
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Courage and Heroism in Literature, 2002.
A discussion of the themes of courage and heroism in four literary works.
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" Beowulf", "Don Quixote" by Miguel Cervantes, "Paradise Lost" by John Milton, and "The Prince" by Niccolo Machiavelli are discussed as examples of the themes of courage and heroism as seen in literary works. An analysis of the writer?s treatment of the story with heroism as its theme is given. A categorical explanation of the themes found in these literary works is provided for better understanding on how courage and heroism can vary between different literary works.
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"There are many literary works that focuses on heroism as its central theme. Examples of these works are Beowulf, Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, Paradise Lost by John Milton, and The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. All of these works focuses on heroism, but each writer treats heroism in various ways. Not all of the stories focuses on physical ability to fight bad, opposing forces. Beowulf is an epic that has bravery as its central theme, and the bravery that the writer talks about is based on the protagonist?s physical strength. Don Quixote, meanwhile, focuses on chivalry and internal strength as its theme, Don Quixote is portrayed as a middle-aged man who fantasizes about fighting ?bad? individuals, and even supernatural elements such as giants. The Prince is a work written by Niccolo Machiavelli that focuses on intelligence or mental strength as the primary tool for achieving success and triumph in a battle, while Paradise Lost by John Milton is a struggle between the Good and the Evil."
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"The Things They Carried" and "The Woman Warrior", 2002.
A comparative analysis of "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien and "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 38.95
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This paper analyzes how the abstract idea that specific facts and events are inconsequential when looking at a theme or idea as a whole is used in the novels, "The Things They Carried" by Tim O?Brien, and "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston. It shows how, through the use of talk story, as in Kingston?s novel and the basis of a ?true war story? in "The Things they Carried", the respective authors use the idea to portray the true meaning of the work. It looks at how both Kingston and O?Brien use this twist in a story to fully develop the themes portrayed and to get across the true meaning of their stories and what they want the reader to take away from the stories.
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"The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston is a non-fiction story of a Chinese-American girl growing up in California. Throughout the novel Kingston uses the talk stories from her mother to outline what a true woman warrior is and who Maxine?s mother expected her to be. The first example of this is the legend of Fa Mu Lan told in the chapter ?White Tigers.?2 The story tells of the warrior Fa Mu Lan who manages to be everything to everyone, able to satisfy the role of wife and mother while still leading her people to victory in battle. Fa Mu Lan becomes what every Chinese woman wants to become, the powerful warrior that protects her family and the nurturing mother that raises her children."
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