weight for yourself so others can experience light. There is Honesty can be a difficult thing to define. It is heavy and weighs people down, but it can also be light and uplift people. I like to think of myself as a very honest person, whether this is a positive
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, is about American soldiers in Vietnam war. In this novel, narrator tells his own story, and his own experience in war, how this war changes him and other soldiers and how unfair it is for a young ,educated person, to go to the war which has no purpose. In this novel, narrator manages to write down a story which makes him feel embarrassed, and story that he has never told to anyone. He mentions that, everyone believes that in moral emergency they will all behave
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The title of the story The Things They Carried symbolizes the weight of the equipment they carried but also the emotional weight they carried through their entire lives. "They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing—these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible
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“The Things They Carried” “The Things They Carried” tells about the side of war that you don’t read about in history books. The author, Tim O’Brien, does outline with great detail what the soldiers in this specific battalion carried, but in a way that you don’t normally read or see. O’Brien does list off the necessity items (can opener, pocket knife, mosquito repellant, etc.) but he also tells what each individual soldier carries because they are just that, individuals. No two have all the same
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Fransisco Payes English 12H Mr Chamberlin The Things they Carried 1. Jimmy really loves Martha, unfortunately Martha doesn't like him back. The presence of her pictures and letters give him a sense of security, warmth and love, something to return too after the Vietnam war. 2. Jimmy is most likely to think about Martha , when he gets nervous. Cross imagines the tunnels collapsing on him and Martha . 3. Jimmy Cross feels guilty about Ted Lavender's death because he was distracted thinking about Martha
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RB1 “It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.” In The Things they Carried by Tim O’Brien, A soldier recalls his Vietnam stories. Through storytelling and various other methods, he is able to remember what happened when he was younger. He tells the stories of all of his friends and the memories he created years back in the Vietnam war. An apparent theme during the storytelling is describing what his fellow comrades had with them while
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The characters in The Things They Carried carry not only the physical objects needed to protect them, but memories and emotions that represent a stable morality. One thing Tim O'Brien does frequently in describing each object is describing how much it weighs. "The weapon weighed 7.5 pounds unloaded, 8.2 pounds with its full 20 round magazine. The riflemen carried anywhere from 12 to 20 magazines...adding on another 8.4 pounds at minimum, 14 pounds at maximum” (5). This provides the reader with
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O’Brien’s book, “The Things They Carried,” provides valuable insight into the minds of soldiers, and enlightens us to the emotional and psychological costs of war. Specifically, the stories of Mary Anne, the baby water buffalo and the chapter, “In the Field,” help us to relate to the metamorphosis that soldiers undergo. While the obvious correlation for O’Brien’s novel is to speak about the physical objects each soldier carried were much more significant, including such things as personal doubts,
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times shunned. As a result, a multitude of Americans become soldiers, in part because of a desire to protect America’s freedom, but also because one may think that being a soldier is the ultimate act of bravery. Tim O’Brien, the author of The Things They Carried, refutes this idea however, stating “I was a coward. I went to war.” O’Brien, a Vietnam War veteran, discusses his moral dilemma concerning whether or not to fight in the war in the story On the Rainy River. After deliberating with himself
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many came home with the vivid memories of war and went on to tell their friends and family of the experiences of war. One such soldier named Tim O’Brien returned from the war and began writing the stories of his fellow soldiers in war. In The Things They Carried, O’Brien suggests that retelling stories creates a juxtaposition of what happened from what seemed to happen in order to induce emotion out of the reader. He composes the stories particularly to
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