the Truth: How Fiction Helps Make Cogent War Stories, “...It is always difficult for an outside observer to learn about their true feelings, not to say for a writer to translate them into words” (2). Mathonniere studies emotion, and how it is integral to narrative, it is focused on to convey something that people can relate to, this allows for an enlightenment to come into fruition. (7). This enlightenment is also explored by Alexander, this is to say that by continuing the improvement of our understanding of language and writing, the comprehension of exactly what we are reading and or writing, we further increase our understanding of shared experience between all humans. And then begin to understand the importance of fiction in our society.
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And it ends several pages later with, “Beginning to end, you tell her, it’s all made up, every goddamn detail-the mountains and the river and especially that poor dumb baby buffalo. None of it happened. None of it” (85). So when a student attempts to capture in one sentence what the work as a whole means, they immediately fail. In one sentence you cannot say what O’Brien intends to accomplish with his work. Unless that sentence is: The meaning of The Things They Carried as a whole is to share a human experience despite whether or not it actually happened. But that could be said for every work ever written.
An increase in mathematical and scientific learning has occured over the previous century. A push for what is considered a more efficient learning process has lead to such questions as what is the meaning as a whole? Modern society often views the mathematical and scientific aspects of education on a higher level because it is easier and quicker to teach, which is why we see such a decline in students understanding how the meaning relates to them, and such an increase in finding out if the story is true, and then applying what it “means as a
And it ends several pages later with, “Beginning to end, you tell her, it’s all made up, every goddamn detail-the mountains and the river and especially that poor dumb baby buffalo. None of it happened. None of it” (85). So when a student attempts to capture in one sentence what the work as a whole means, they immediately fail. In one sentence you cannot say what O’Brien intends to accomplish with his work. Unless that sentence is: The meaning of The Things They Carried as a whole is to share a human experience despite whether or not it actually happened. But that could be said for every work ever written.
An increase in mathematical and scientific learning has occured over the previous century. A push for what is considered a more efficient learning process has lead to such questions as what is the meaning as a whole? Modern society often views the mathematical and scientific aspects of education on a higher level because it is easier and quicker to teach, which is why we see such a decline in students understanding how the meaning relates to them, and such an increase in finding out if the story is true, and then applying what it “means as a