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Guilt in "The Things They Carried", 2001.
This is an analysis of guilt and its presence in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried."
4,222 words (approx. 16.9 pages), 6 sources, $ 112.95
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This paper analyzes guilt and how it was presented in Tim O?Brien?s novel ?The Things They Carried.? The author discusses the sources of guilt and how that emotion is dealt with as two of the major themes in the paper. It looks at the causes and effects of guilt in the book and compares them to outside sources.
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"No one who has not been in a war can approach a comprehensive understanding of the war experience. However, if there were a book out there that could come close to making the war a reality for a civilian, it would be Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Through the use of short stories about the Vietnam Conflict, O'Brien brings to life the various emotions felt by the soldiers, like fear, hate, love, compassion, and, of course, guilt. Guilt proved to be an emotion that could stay with a soldier for the rest of his life, and, if a true understanding of a soldier's experience is to be obtained, it is worthy of further study. Because it is such a raw and basic human emotion, everyone has had some experience with it in the past. It is not surprising, then, that the guilt felt by the soldiers in Vietnam is not a new phenomena. There are, in fact, many examples in the book and in the war that can be linked and compared with studies and with other historical events in history. The types of guilt shown throughout the collection of short stories and the various ways the soldiers dealt with it can be correlated to other instances of guilt to begin to show the reader the severity of the situations that these soldiers were enduring, and to bring about a better understanding of the war experience."
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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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?The Things They Carried?, 2005.
A look at the concept of burdens in "The Things They Carried" by Tom O' Brien.
1,652 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 53.95
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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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"The Things They Carried", 2007.
An analysis of the symbolism and the plot contained in Tim O'Brien's short story, "The Things They Carried."
2,135 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper discusses love, death, pathos and irony within Tim O'Brien's short story, "The Things They Carried." The paper describes the plot of the story and provides examples from the plot to describe the burdens that the soldiers carried to war with them. It also discusses the symbolism that is shown in the title and the plot of the story.
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"At the beginning of the story, O'Brien mentions various items, i.e., the "things" that the various characters carry along with them wherever they go: particular weapons; necessities for doing their individual jobs; little necessities like mosquito repellant; little luxuries like chewing gum, cigarettes, and candy. What is apparent at the end, though, is that in war a soldier's biggest burdens are in fact those with no physical weight at all. These include thoughts of home and loved ones there; the horrors and regrets of the recent past here; the fears of today; and unbridled anxieties about tomorrow."
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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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?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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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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Tim O?Brien?s ?The Things They Carried?, 2004.
This paper reviews Tim O?Brien?s ?The Things They Carried?, a novel that depicts the horrors of fighting in the Vietnam War.
2,600 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper explains that Tim O?Brien?s novel, ?The Things They Carried?,
illustrates that the greatest weight soldiers bear comes from nothing they can physically carry, but rather their emotions, grief, terror, and love. The author points out that O'Brien utilizes the composite novel form, which allows him to play with multiple settings, characters, the theme of storytelling, and even allusiveness, in a way that most fully incorporates the whole of humanity into his story. The paper relates that, through his unique narration, stylistic technique, and attention to detail, O?Brien captures the psychological aspects of war.
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"The psychological burden of war goes far beyond that of simply fighting. The struggle of staying alive was always emphasized after encountering a battle for which they found themselves alive. ?For the most part they carried themselves with poise, a kind of dignity. Now and then there were times of panic, when they squealed or wanted to squeal but couldn?t? (19). The fear of losing life was compounded by the idea of being a brave and courageous soldier. The fact of surviving always brought a sense of life to the soldiers. The psychological pressure of fighting and surviving was always followed with a sense of reassembling themselves as soldiers. O?Brien states that for the most part, the soldiers were ?afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it? (20). Coping with the pressure of war was discovered by way of telling jokes and creating a ?hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness? (20). Their encounters with death were instances where ?irony was mixed with tragedy? (20). These statements illustrate how the soldiers did their best to cope with the psychological pressure of the war."
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"The Things They Carried", 2007.
A discussion of the themes of individualism, as described in the book "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.
1,107 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses the themes that are explored in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried." Particularly, the paper focuses on the most prevalent and important of those themes - those of identity and individualism. It also discusses the figurative and physical weight of carrying around one's identity. The paper discusses how these themes are expressed in the book.
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"When Lavender dies, Lt. Cross blames himself for being too wrapped up in Martha. When he burns the letters from her he is trying to get rid of the guilt he feels since the two are related (O'Brien 1122). But in this case, he cannot escape the guilt because it is something he carries that he cannot get rid of. He has gotten rid of the physical weight of the letters but not the mental weight of them. His only way of dealing with his burden is to "repack and shift the weight so it will be more bearable" (Piedmont-Marton, par. 9)."
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?The Things They Carried?, 2006.
An analysis of the concept of fiction verses fact in Tim O'Brien's novel "The Things They Carried".
1,669 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 54.95
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Tim O'Brien's novel, "The Things They Carried", is a collection of fictional stories based upon situations from Vietnam. This paper discusses how although O'Brien is a veteran, his "story truth" allows him more freedom than "happening truth". It shows how this "story truth" allows him to deal with the horrors of war and how in war, the rational faculty form memory begins to diminish along with conventional morality and what takes over is surrealism and the imagination.
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"Through the use of "story truths", O'Brien's stories help to clarify events that are persistently confusing and troublesome, like the deaths of his friends and comrades (O'Brien, 180). As a young and naive foot soldier, Tim had not yet begun to reflect upon or grasp the events of the war. O'Brien's stories enable him to gain a fuller meaning and a greater understanding that he possessed before such as when he claimed "I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again." Stories allow O'Brien to sort through and make sense of the war's complexity, mystery, and horror."
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"The Things They Carried ", 2008.
A book review of Tim O'Brien's novel, "The Things They Carried ", about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War.
1,689 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 54.95
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The paper is a review of a book describing the War in Vietnam as seen by a soldier who is both the narrator and the protagonist of the 22 stories described. In the book "The Things They Carried " the author, Tim O'Brien gives his perspective of the events and gives a profound understanding of the main character who is also the narrator. Moreover, this paper looks at a few of the main themes and motifs of the novel which are directly and closely linked to the analysis of the main character/narrator.
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"This fear of shame also affects men once in Vietnam because it influences the relationships with each other. As absurd as it might seem to the adult O'Brien who can now recall the events from the safety of his home, the men engaged in battle were concerned with each other's opinions even in the immediacy of death and despite the necessity for unity during war. The best example can be encountered in the story entitled "The Dentist" when Curt Lemon decides to have a perfectly good tooth pulled out by the dentist only to ease his shame about having fainted during a previous encounter with the doctor. Moreover, O'Brien introduces us to Jimmy Cross, a young man who decided to go to war only because his friends had; this is meant to illustrate that given the proper conditions, a young man could be easily bullied into going to war by social pressure. What is more thought-provoking, as we are later shown, is the fact that due to confusion, fear, anguish, soldiers such as Jimmy Cross are put in the position where they endanger the lives of others."
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'The Things They Carried' and 'Come Together', 2004.
This paper compares Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried' to Jon Wiener's 'Come Together: John Lennon in His Time'.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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In this article the writer offers a thematic comparison of Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried' and Jon Wiener's 'Come Together: John Lennon in His Time'. The comparison focuses on the conflicting emotions and views of America during the 1960s and 1970's. The writer includes the common search for a utopia by O'Brien and Lennon that was never forthcoming.
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"There are many connections between Tim O'Brien's autobiographical account of his service in Vietnam 'The Things They Carried' and Jon Wiener's assessment of the political and musical contributions of John Lennon, 'Come Together'. The books share many thematic similarities from an anti-war sentiment to the complexities of life. However, if there is one common theme between the two works that is most prevalent it is both O'Brien's and Lennon's tireless search for utopia, a utopia that neither is able to achieve in ... "
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