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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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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", 2006.
An analysis of Tim O'Brien's short story about soldiers in the Vietnam War, "The Things They Carried".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper looks closely at the short story by Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried". The work selects as its thesis the items which were carried, and what they symbolize. The paper also comments upon what it means to not have items of value or to burn and give up the burdens which were first brought to war. It concludes that these items saved the soldiers and bring them humanity.
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"Tim O'Brien's powerful words in the short story "The Things They Carried", the title and first chapter in his collection of work concerning soldiers during the Vietnam War, connect to readers as they remind us of burdens being carried--physical, emotional and spiritual. As the soldiers gain personality via their possessions--both those they carry as well as those they leave behind--we come to envision these men as the 'everyman,' those who go off to war and symbolize a country. As the images of these burdens gain a solid presence in the story, they represent the lives and hopes of each soldier, even as they are cast away by the principle character in the tale, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. Near the first lines of the story, O'Brien introduces the readers to the theme of the 'carried,' or burdens. Each soldier is made unique by..."
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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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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", 2008.
This paper discusses Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" about the reality of combat in Vietnam.
825 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 29.95
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This paper explains that, in his National Book Award winning novel "The Things They Carried", Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien conveyed the reality of the war by telling his readers in plainspoken language what it feels like to be afraid, to kill and to see friends die in a useless war ten-thousand miles away from home. The author points outs that O'Brien's literary approach of conveying the realism of violent death in combat through emotion is very effective. The paper relates that this style has far more power and meaning than simply describing battles. The author underscores that O'Brien's use of fear, the trauma killing inflicts and the grief soldiers feel for lost comrades are the three primary reasons why this book has been acclaimed as one of the most realistic novels about the Vietnam War ever written.
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"This passage conveys much more about the pervasive weight of fear and the awful finality of death than many war novelists have communicated in entire chapters, or even in entire novels. O'Brien (1999) describes his friend's sudden death on a warm, sunny April morning with compassionate finality and an authoritative essence that is eloquent in its very simplicity. "He was dead weight," O'Brien writes of Ted Lavender, a scared young soldier gone from this world in the twinkling of an eye."
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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", 2005.
A paper on Tim O'Brien's work about the Vietnam War, "The Things They Carried".
1,458 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper describes the main character in the O'Brien's book about a young man who was drafted into the the war with Vietnam. The paper describes the man's conflicting emotions and turmoil he feels about the war.
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"On June 17, 1968, Tim O'Brien received his draft notice. Many emotions must have erupted inside of him that day and in the following months to come. He said, "I remember the rage in my stomach. Later it burned down to a smoldering self-pity, then to numbness." In "On the Rainy River" O'Brien brings to life many places and characters to convey his feelings about his draft notice and the war in Vietnam. Elroy Berdahl and the Armour Meat Packing Plant for example brings to life and express to the readers his conflicting emotions about the war in Vietnam. Many feelings, such as desperation, rage, and fear come to the surface. "The emotions went from outrage to terror to bewilderment to guilt to sorrow and then back again to outrage.""
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Tim O?Brien?s "The Things They Carried", 2004.
Analysis of the theme of truth in O'Brien's fictional novel, "The Things They Carried".
1,174 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper examines the theme of truth and the lack of truth in Tim O'Brien's fictional story about the Vietnam war. The paper looks at the message, delivered in O'Brien's story, that we should never trust what the government tells us about the war because no one knows for sure what really happened. To further illustrate the truth theme, the paper contrasts O'Brien's approach to truth depiction with the approach of Oliver Stone in "Platoon". While acknowledging that there are similarities in both authors' approach to truth depiction, the paper points out that there are significant differences too.
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"In most war stories, the main purpose of authors and directors is to represent the truth by building their works on universally known facts. Most of them try to stick with facts to lend more credibility to their fictional work. They would get inspiration from some real events and then mould them creatively to add their own views and ideologies. However in Tim O?Brien?s ?The Things They Carried?, the author has no such objective in mind. Instead he urges his readers to question the so-called truth that authorities give us. We are repeatedly reminded of the fact that this work is pure fiction that nothing is real and not a single event mentioned in the story ever took place in reality. The words ?real? and ?really? have been used frequently in the story to convince the readers of the authenticity of the details of every version and they are then quickly called into question little later."
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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", 2006.
This paper discusses the book "The Things They Carried", by Tim O' Brien.
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 30.95
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In this article, the writer looks at one of the works of Tim O' Brien and mentions that the majority of his works deal with war and Vietnam. The writer discusses that in his book "The Things They Carried", Tim O' Brien examines a very important theme, "truth" and relates how one should not believe what governments tell about war because none of us know what exactly happened. The writer examines how the author of the book instructs the reader to actually question those facts which others claim to be true. This piece of work is fictional and the author reminds us from time to time that it is not real, neither did any of the events which he illustrates actually take place. This book is a compilation of short stories that present the same theme. The writer concludes that while labeling his work as fiction, O'Brien has touched the realities of life and war.
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"Tim O' Brien has not sugarcoated any aspect of the war in Vietnam like many authors tend to do. Tim has differentiated two types of truth in the novel, one being the "happening truth" and the other being the "story truth". He has encouraged his readers to actually disregard the "story truth" which we are told through media and other documentary record because he claims that the "happening truth" is actually very different. He states that something might occur, yet be a lie and another thing which might not have happened be the truth. Historians however should record history while consulting the evidentiary record. Sticking to evidentiary records however prevents a person from knowing the real truth and many assess that the best historical writing would be somewhere between going too far and not going far enough. Tim has tried to write on this theme so that people would not rely on what is fed to them via the media or other documentary records."
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"The Things They Carried", 2006.
A review of the book "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.
2,950 words (approx. 11.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 87.95
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This paper analyzes the book "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. Specifically, it discusses the novel's antiwar position and how this position relates to the era of unrest in the United States over the Vietnam War. The paper looks at how the stories of the young men O'Brien portrays in his novel underscore the horrors and tediousness of war. According to the paper, by the end of the book, the reader understands just how war is hell, and why this book is such a strong statement against war and the horrors it creates on both sides of the fighting.
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"Author Tim O'Brien knows the Vietnam War because he fought there. It seems as if it would be impossible to write a book like The Things They Carried without having actually experienced the war. That is one reason the book is so vivid and so interesting. The author experienced many of these things first-hand. That is also why it is so disturbing. The author saw many of these things or things like them, and many of them are horrible. O'Brien notes that the book is fiction, and yet, many of the characters seem so real they must have existed, and the lines of reality blur even more when the reader realizes the narrator of these short stories strung together into a novel is named Tim O'Brien."
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"The Things They Carried", 2005.
An analysis of the psychological impact of the Vietnam War as depicted in "The Things They Carried" by Tim O?Brien.
1,102 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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"The Things They Carried by Tim O?Brien" is a collection of short stories that emphasizes the psychological effects of war. This paper examines how, through his unique style, O?Brien captures the personal experiences of the soldiers in Vietnam, which helps us see the devastating effects of war, one soldier at a time. It points out that, through the literary techniques of narration, style, and imagery, O?Brien successfully achieves the task of telling a war story.
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"The narration of the novel is very personal, which allows us to experience not only what the narrator experiences but what the other soldiers experience as well. The narrator does not try to make the war and his fellow soldiers sound glorious. Rather, he is able to touch on aspects of their experiences that reveal their humanity. For example, in the story, ?The Things They Carried,? O?Brien is sure to tell us about the emotional baggage that the soldiers had to carry every day."
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"The Things They Carried", 2002.
An analytical essay on the novel, "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.
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The paper analyzes the book "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien about the Vietnam War and explores how O'Brien potrays it as a "true" war through his use of language and style. The paper also focuses on O'Brien's personal interpretation of the war.
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"The Things They Carried is written from the perspective of the author, Tim O'Brien. The book is a compilation of his stories and experiences relating to the Vietnam War. It encompasses the events and lives of himself, the other members of his company, and the war as a whole. Many stories, written as second-hand experience of O'Brien, take place before many soldiers are placed in or called to the war. They also reflect on how O'Brien interprets them. No war story is told without a twist or turn of the truth. Details are imagined, and dreamed up to how the teller finds most appropriate. "Vietnam was full of strange stories, some improbable, some well beyond that, but the stories that will last forever are those that swirl back and forth across the border between trivia and bedlam, the mad and the mundane." (O'Brien, pg. 89) This bias is the basis to a "true" war story."
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"The Things They Carried", 2002.
An analysis of "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.
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Thispaper presents a discussion about the book "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. The author of this paper takes the reader on a tour of the book and focuses on three events that helped the protagonist grow and realize a sense of self.
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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 myths, truths, and lies in "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.
1,956 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 62.95
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The paper reviews the novel, "The Things They Carried", by fiction writer Tim O'Brien. The paper describes the book as dealing with the real-life drama of America's involvement in Vietnam. The paper examines Tim's obsession with truth, which comes from his desire to make war seem ugly and unglamorous. The paper concludes that the novel makes the reader uncomfortable reading about the Vietnam experience in fiction, even though it conveys a powerful truth about the experience of soldiers who cannot communicate their own experiences.
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"The storyline of The Things They Carried is told in a series of flashbacks, as the narrator reconnects with his old wartime comrades. All the soldiers interviewed by the narrator, named Tim, share stories about what the war was like, some of which contradict one another. The narrator has a young daughter named Kathleen, and he says wants her to understand what war was 'really' like."
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