Kiowa

Storytelling is a key way for the world to communicate. Whether it is between two friends having a conversation, or if its between two strangers, it is a way for the world to learn about each other. Stories that involve war or something traumatizing take on a whole new role. These stories need a way for the listener to know what they are saying is true, as they are telling the listener an experience very few have. The cultural and emotional aspects of storytelling in Tim O’Brien’s The Things…

life, I mean. It’s almost like I got killed over in Nam . . . Hard to describe” (O’Brien 231). The reason he thinks he was “killed” in Vietnam was because he allowed himself to believe that he let his comrade Kiowa die in the mud field when he let go of his boot and he sunk under the mud. Kiowa actually died from an enemy mortar round hitting his face, so he was dead instantly and there was nothing Norman could have done to save him. Norman formed tight bonds with all his army buddies and was…

also bring a few of their personal possessions that help describe what kind of person they might be. For example, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross brings a couple photographs a girl he loves named of Martha, The RTO named Mitchell Sanders carries condoms, Kiowa has the New Testament, and Ted Lavender brings dope. The photos that Jimmy Cross carries cause him to be ecstatic and often dreamed about seeing her again. He’s obsessed to the point that he often ignores the activity around him and thinks…

Hanay Geiogamah is a playwright, television and movie producer, and professor at the University of California. Born in Oklahoma to a father of Kiowa descent, and a mother of Lenni Lenape descent – Geiogamah is considered the first famous and successful Native American playwright. Throughout his career he wrote numerous plays depicting Native American culture and society, as well as served as a producer for television programs that aired on well-known networks such as TBS and TNT. In addition, he…

and her good-luck pebble in his mouth. According to Tim O’Brien most men carry with themselves. For example, mosquito repellent, marijuana to keep themselves calm, pocket knives, chewing gum, cigarettes, and lighters, two or three canteens of water. Kiowa, is a religious character in the story, he…

Which is how the soldiers live with being in Vietnam, by accepting the fact that they are there and that it wasn't going to change. With Ted Lavender and his drug usage to escape reality, the constant reminders of the love of Timmy and Linda and Kiowa carrying the new testament because it brought the thought of his father closer to him. The author makes sure to mention these things in the story to show the reader that in an average person's life, the things that seem that are the end of the…

It takes a lot of guts to make sacrifices and the effects of them can stay with you forever. Especially in war, Sacrifices are made on a daily basis to try and keep you alive and the people around you. Sometimes those sacrifices pertain to someone's life and that guilt can last a lifetime. In the story The Things They Carried, two soldiers turned good friends Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen were faced with a hard decision when Lee was struck with a mine. They made a pact that if one of them was to…

The story starts by being put into Lieutenant Jimmy’s feeling of guilt in which he felt for the lose of Kiowa. Jimmy Cross express that he had felt that “he knew for a fact that he had made a mistake setting up here...He should've move to higher ground for the night, should've radioed in false coordinates. There was nothing he could do now, but still it was…

1. “The Storm” – Protagonist: Calixta, Antagonist: The Storm, Point of view: 3rd person, Setting: 19th century Southern Louisiana, at the Friedheimer’s store and Calixta’s home, during a storm. In Kate Chopin’s story “The Storm,” the main character Calixta is faced with a very tricky situation which is being locked in her home alone with her former lover for the first time since they both married. While she is worried about her husband and son who are out in the storm, she is intrigued in…

“And yet right here, in the spell of memory and imagination, I can still see her as if through ice, as if I’m gazing into some other world, a place where there are no brain tumors and no funeral homes, where there are no bodies at all. I can see Kiowa, too, and Ted Lavender and Curt Lemon, and sometimes I can even see Timmy skating with Linda under the yellow floodlights” (pg 232). Furthermore, Linda represents Tim’s first experience of life (through love) and death, as well as reinforce the…