The Things They Carried Essay

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    soldier in and out of the Army during the Vietnam War is in his own distinctive way of fictional writing. O’Brien is especially known for this book because of the way he switched from a narrative to a conversational writing style. In The Things They Carried, O’Brien constantly uses multiple literary devices to make his remarkable war stories seem as if the reader were actually there to experience the situation for themselves. Throughout the story, O’Brien tends to use symbolism to explain his…

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    Importance of Shame in The Things They Carried Have you ever felt shame and made decisions that haunt you every day of your life? It’s okay to feel shame because other people have had worse experiences. In the book “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien shame causes soldiers to act differently and to make choices that they would have never thought that they would’ve made. Even though shame drives some soldiers towards heroism, not stupidity, it plays an important role in the novel because it…

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    In this course, American Literature, the four novels we read taught me about American history. In The Things They Carried I learned a lot about the Vietnam War. I learned the hardships of the war by reading personal fictional stories about soldiers and their experience in Vietnam. For example, we learned how much weight the soldiers really carried, mentally and physically. In The Catcher in the Rye we learn a lot about the 1950s and the expectations of how a teenager should act in the 1950s. We…

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    O’Brien was. Imagine yourself carrying the things of past or deceased soldiers. You are in control, you have the power to make a story a fiction piece or a narrative one. I did, when reading, “The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien I focused on the narrator side of the story. I read the story like I was in his shoes, going to war for him as him. Tim O’Brien either uses fiction or narrative. Nobody truly knows what writing he uses, but we all know one thing he uses two. Tim O’Brien,…

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    smiled, as if to say, that’s it. “The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien is largely celebrated since its publishing in 1990. But much of his short story is overlooked. Yes O’Brien is a great author but more than that he conveys a message. The essence of the story comes down to one thing, the things that civilians, or for that matter, the majority of the military do not see. It is more than just the…

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    The book The Things They Carried is based off a semi-true story about american soldiers that were in the Vietnam war. There are many scenes in the book about these soldiers walking in the woods, spending time at their camp, and sometimes on battle ground. The main characters in this book were made up, but in the front of the book there is a dedication for these fictional character. The characters are, Jimmy Cross, Norman Bowker, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Henry Dobbins, and Kiowa. The book…

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    Prompt One: The Things I carry In the novel The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, the soldiers carried many things with them during the war. Some of these men carried things to remind them of home or to make them feel safe. Others would carry items that they needed on a daily basis. One of the things that I carry with me is a bracelet that my grandpa gave to me before he passed away. It is a dainty gold bracelet with charms on it. Although I do not always wear it, I always keep it with…

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    “The Things They Carried,” there was an abundance of repetition. O’Brien consistently mentions different weights and things the men carry around with him throughout the war. O’Brien says, “In addition to the three standard weapons—the M-60, M-16, and M-79—they carried whatever presented itself, or whatever seemed appropriate as a means of killing or staying alive (7).” This is only one example of the many things the men had to carry. All of this is leading up to the fact the heaviest things…

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    called “The Things They Carried.” O’Brien was born on October 1, 1946 in Austin, Minnesota. He grew up in Worthington, where that city played an important role in shaping his imagination and developing his artistic sensibility. Although O’Brien was against the war, he was conscripted into the United States Army and sent to Vietnam where he served for two years. Tim O’Brien faced many obstacles and learned a lot about himself and other people when he went to war. “In the Things They Carried by…

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    The novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien had many themes throughout the story. The most outstanding theme was the effects the war had on people. The people in the book changed in many different ways because of the war. O’Brien uses literary devices, and literary elements in the Things They Carried to emphasize the effects that the war had on the soldiers. First of all, by expressing how O’Brien and his group of soldiers changed through the war he used many literary devices, such as…

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