Black Guerrilla Family

In The Things they Carried, By Tim O 'Brien, there are three characters that are greatly changed by the Vietnam War those characters being Rat Kiley the medic, Mary Anne an all American girl and well-educated liberal minded Tim O’Brien. Each character comes to Vietnam in 1968 at the height of the Vietnam War with a level of goodness in their hearts that is instilled in all Americans who have never seen war. After going to war it changes a these people by taking away a piece of that goodness…

was in his throat, his upper lip and teeth were gone, his one eye was shut, his other eye was a star-shaped hole, his eyebrows were thin and arched like a woman 's, his nose was undamaged, there was a slight tear at the lobe of one ear, his clean black hair was swept upward into a cowlick at the rear of the skull, his forehead was lightly freckled, his fingernails were clean, the skin at his left cheek was peeled back in three ragged strips, his right cheek was smooth and hairless, there was a…

Vietnam. However, we do not know if he made the decision to fight for the same reason. Tim may have realized the right reason to go to war instead of returning and fighting because “he couldn’t risk the embarrassment” (O’Brien 186) of leaving his family like the narrator did in the story. Tim made the decision for the narrator to return home and fight the war because that’s what he did in real life. However, he may have added the narrator’s embarrassment in order to add more emotion to the story…

be a coward. Tim even tries to run away to Canada to avoid going into the war, but something holds him back from going. Now, it’s not your normal patriotism when in fact it’s the fear that if he doesn’t go to the war and fight for his country his family will think of him as a coward. The fear…

The Vietnam war was devastating. It sent soldiers home with no support, and ghastly views of close friends dying in the blink of an eye. In the story, “The Red Convertible”, by Louise Erdrich, our Vietnam-Vet, Henry was sent to war and came back with severe PTSD. Henry is Lyman's brother, which the two bought a Red Convertible before Henry was sent off to Vietnam.Through examining the well being of Henry, the relationship of Lyman and Henry have shared, and the memories Henry and Lyman have…

Thousands of people join our military and risk their lives to fight for their country. After many years of fighting in war soldiers are no longer who they used to be. When they return home they are looked at, treated badly, and are not given the treatment needed to recover. The struggles and obstacles these veterans face on their journey home and once they arrive forever face. In the epic poem, Odyssey by Homer, it shows the obstacles a soldier has to face on their journey. Odysseus and his men…

Tim O'Brien's novel “The Things They Carried” used his personal experience fighting in the Vietnam War, his father's stories from war as well as others experiences to express his message to civilians that life in a war and post war are not to be glorified or desired. Much of the material in the work has been drawn from O’Brien’s experiences because he felt so close to his stories, because of this, he dedicated the work to his characters—Jimmy Cross, Norman Bowker, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders,…

Tim O'Brien uses various types of rhetoric to introduce and familiarize the hardships and travesties of war with those who have never experienced it in his novel The Things They Carried. Bringing new light and perspective to a story told before, O’Brien uses his narrator, the flexibility of truth, and repetition to assist his story telling. In the beginning of the novel, we are introduced to a character named Tim O'Brien, sculpted from O’Brien’s personal experience as a Vietnam veteran…

Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried follows a group of soldiers through their tour of Vietnam. Throughout the story the reader is provided with imagery from a soldier coincidentally named Tim O’Brien, detailing the items his fellow soldiers carry in their knapsacks. The items carried show great personal connections to one another, as well as their lives outside of the war. Not only are the items described, but the emotion of warfare is depicted in great detail. Therefore, O’Brien’s imagery…

I choose to read this letter because it appealed to me because of soldier’s feeling toward the war. He started his letter to his wife, Roberta, by stating “Today is probably the worst day I have ever lived in my entire, short life” and when he continues writing it shows how depressed and questions his faith along his time in the Vietnam “I keep asking myself if there is a God, then how the hell come young men with so much to live for have to die.” One of the hardest things that soldiers…