Kiowa

Each chapter we read presented some interesting new revelations. First of all, I was right about the rain having a more metaphorical meaning, rather than it just being rain. It turns out that O’Brien believes the “rain [is] the war and you [have] to fight it” in “In the Field” (O’Brien 163). Sometimes the rain comes down at the men hard and unrelentless, whereas other times it lets up and allows them to breath. This is what the rain throughout the novel really means. War, like rain, is something…

himself in the locker at YMCA, he wanted to dedicate a chapter of his book that he was writing at the time to his friend, Norman Booker. But before Norman Booker died he wrote a letter to Tim and it said that he wanted Tim to write the story of how Kiowa died because he had a way with words and Norman couldn’t quite find the words to describe everything like Tim could. Tim then tried to write about it but he felt like he couldn’t quite get Norman’s side of the story. He added this in the story…

The Things They Carried In the classic novel, The Things They Carried, author Tim O’Brien illustrates the gruesome details of a dead soldier to develop the speaker’s negative attitude towards the traumatizing effects of war. He provides a detailed description of the soldier as well as a made-up backstory to further enhance the effect. The speaker believes that his death is unnecessary, a waste of life, and not detrimental to the outcome of the war. In the passage, the speaker’s attitude is…

The Kiowa Native American tribe had a rather comprehensive hierarchy of honor. The horse played an integral part in their society and their system of honor was based around it. Kiowa men were ranked by their bravery in battle and on raids as well as by the number of horses they possessed. This practice encouraged horse theft as well as violence…

“The Things They Carried”- People are inclined to display a confident image of themselves because they fear that if they do not, others will see them as weak. Device Concrete Detail Commentary Personification of intangibles to represent the true burdens of war “They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could…

equipment and a diary, as well as the crushing guilt of ‘allowing’ a friend to die. In the shit field along the Song Tra Bong River, where the men set up camp only to be attacked later in the night, Norman watches as one of his squad mates and friends, Kiowa, is caught by a mortar shell. He rushes to save him from sinking into the muck, but even as he pulls on the man’s boot desperately trying to free him from the swallowing sludge, he is overwhelmed and gives up; he watches numbly as Kiowa’s…

In Sula, Toni Morrison uses emotive language and humor to relate the struggles that most African Americans suffered in the 1920s. It was common for African Americans to be poorly treated in those days, however, women additionally endured mistreatment from their husbands and society in general. The main characters are Nel and Sula. There are striking contrasts between the two families and their relationships. On the one hand, Nel’s family life is structured to a fault. Her mother Helene, is…

In the beginning of this chapter; Sitting Bull and his tribe, the Hunkpapa people, commenced in a sun dance. Black bear, a leader of the Northern Arapahos invited some Southern Arapahos to Tongue River. They set up camp there, and had many hunts and dances. Because of this, many tribes in the Powder River dispersed all over the Big Horn Mountains and the Black Hills. When Star Chief Connor of the U.S. Military learned that theses various tribes were scattered, he said that the Native American…

O’Brien writes about the things soldiers carry such as ammunitions, ponchos and weapons. Furthermore, O’Brien continues on additional burdens such as emotional and social burdens that soldiers endure. In the short story, O’Brien uses the metaphor” Kiowa also…

Tower is a monstrous rock formation that seemingly comes out of nowhere in the middle of a forest, and is said to have spiritual value to the native tribes that live in the surrounding areas. There are many tribes, such as the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa, Lakota, Sioux, etc.,(Hanson) that claim the exclusive rights to the use of the land for ceremonial purposes, as well as the public claim it for their own recreational hiking and climbing purposes. The theory that the land is exclusive to the…