Kiowa

Unlike the rest of his platoon, Kiowa is the only soldier whose race and religion is explicitly revealed by the narrator, and he is characterized as a man of a great amount of faith. However, the outcome of events for Kiowa in the story goes against what he believes in his faith as a Christian. According to the statements made by Kiowa, every death should have a reason for happening, but the deaths of character such as Ted Lavender…

After Kiowa death the platoon decide to find his body maybe dig it out. Jim leading the way. When they were searching for Kiowa 's body gets underway on the cold wet morning. Azar begins cracking jokes about Kiowa “ eating shit and biting the dirt” and Bowker showed him his place. They found Kiowa body wedged between a layer of mud with the help of few of the men they got him out. Azar stops joking around…

1874 when a few U.S. Armed force regiments under Ranald S. Mackenzie assaulted an extensive place to stay of Plains Indians in Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle of Texas. In the post-summer of 1874, Quahada Comanche, Southern Cheyenne, Arapaho and Kiowa warriors drove by Lone Wolf left their reservations and searched for refuge in Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas Panhandle. There they had been gathering sustenance and supplies for the winter. Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie, driving the fourth U.S.…

there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war. You could blame the idiots who made the war. You could blame Kiowa for going to it... A moment of carelessness or bad judgment or plain stupidity” (O’Brien 169). Jimmy Cross takes all criticism for the death of Kiowa because he did not act when Kiowa was in danger. The death of Kiowa will hang over his head because of his quote: “carried consequences that lasted forever” (O’Brien 170). Jimmy Cross may never be the…

Tim O’Brien is a writer that, while impressive, can be described as indulgent with his words; going on for pages at a time on one topic and not sparing a single detail. This, of course, is part of his charm, which is why his vignettes are never lacking in any rhetorical devices. However, in his “The Man I Killed” from his The Things They Carried the rhetorical devices become much less prominent, because the protagonist, Tim O’Brien, retreats into himself. Instead the reader must then shift gears…

The Things They Carried is a fictional account of the nature of men during the Vietnam War. The power of the novel comes from the blurring of the line between fiction and non-fiction. O’Brien used his actual memoir as a Vietnam soldier with a collection of what appears to be fictional short stories that he attributed to the members of his platoon. This style of writing shows that sometimes a person 's subjective thoughts and feelings about an event, which O 'Brien calls story-truth, is more…

When O’Brien supposedly kills a man he is there to comfort him. O’Brien explains the story of Linda to Kiowa and he listens to him. Sadly Kiowa ends up passing away by drowning in poop. Kiowa is an example of a worthy human because he respects and cares for the individuals by listening and concerned for the others well being. Guilty, guilty, guilty. Norman Bowker is a prime example of the cross…

and “Speaking of Courage.” The most prominent account in which O’Brien uses speech in contrast to silence to add value to the subject can be seen in the interaction between Kiowa, Tim, and the corpse…

into his journey to Rainey Mountain. Throughout his essay Momaday recounts the life story of his grandmother, whose recent passing is the reason behind his visitation to Rainy Mountain. He shifts from describing her to explaining the customs of the Kiowas. This captures the reader’s attention because they are left questioning about the grandmother. Momaday…

After the Vietnam War, many soldiers returned home only to suffer from depression. For example, in Tim O'Brien’s book, The Things They Carried, Norman Bowker is one such soldier. He comes home to a town full of life, but it seems like a ghost town to him. While dealing with the horrible memories of war, he also has a hard time adjusting to his new surroundings. He finds out his girlfriend married another man, and he drives in circles around the lake in his hometown, where his best friend drowned…