Kiowa

At some time in life, a person will experience death of a relative or lose something that was very important to he or she. After that traumatic event, will that person confront his or her pain, or will that person bury it deep within them? Both ways are possible, however, only one is effective in the long term. According to Tim O'Brien, the most effective way to heal after a traumatic experience is to share stories. In Tim’s book, The things they carried, he used the motifs of loneliness, life,…

In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien suggests that the war itself changes a person, the changes could be negative or positive. The negative effect is the war is like a disease that takes over your body and reorganizes everything inside you making the outer layers of you to be unrecognizable to people. For instance, when Tim talks about Lemon fear of the dentist and how he got over the fear: "...something about dentists that just gave him the creeps ....Lemon kept insisting, so the man…

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, Henry Dobbins, and Kiowa. Although the actual characters didn’t exist in real life, they were derived from true experiences which in a way, makes them real. In the novel, O'Brien’ s argument is that war corrupts people and by using Mary Anne as a symbol…

Is Fear the Cause of His Ultimate Demise? Imagine a life of someone who carries a constant burden on their shoulders. The burden whispers into the person’s ear everyday probably around noon or right before bed. The burden causes a constant fear that sends chills down their spine when the syllables drop from the burden’s lips. It might sound something like, “You aren't good enough” or “It was all your fault”. This fear can consume someone especially when it is driven by self hatred, guilt or the…

Imagine hiking up the beautiful Bear Lodge Mountains of northeastern Wyoming, surrounded by the Belle Fourche River, and seeing a grand structure of rock, a thousand feet up in the air. Nearly half a mile high, Devil’s Tower stands tall and proud, able to be seen from miles away. Devil’s Tower is known for its exciting climbing aspects, however, there is so much more than meets the eye when it comes to this particular climbing range. Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming possesses a thought…

The novel, The Things They Carried, teaches valuable morals and presents themes that are unusual to find in a war novel. War can teach a person many things and has a variety of stories that contain said morals and themes. In war, there is a lot of death. In Vietnam, especially, casualties on both sides grew higher and higher with each passing day. The narrator and author, Tim O’Brien, shares his stories regarding death no matter how gruesome or disturbing. All of the soldiers had a different and…

War is generally characterized by individuals violently uprooted, international and domestic tension, unfortunate mortality, and militaristic weaponry. Although many scholars have identified war as a universal trait of human nature, others have argued that it is the result of socio-economic, religious, political, and other differences. Frequently, the marginalized voices of civilians and soldiers in war are overlooked, due to the large media attention given to the destructive battles that occur.…

and it will be over with. All the personal artifacts the characters carry around with them represent part of the characters personality. A bible represent morals, as long as the character owning this bible is alive, morals are present as well. When Kiowa dies, he drowns and disappears in a sewage field. This symbolizes the disappearance of morality, which submerges in a “field of brown swamp”. The field of brown swamp is an image of the sea of all the faceless and nameless dead people. Each…

Momaday’s passage and D. Brown’s passage create two contrasting different tones. Passage one states, “ For my people, the Kiowas, it is an old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The hardest weather in the world is there.” Momaday opens his passage with the perspective his ancestors had on the land. Penning this, Momaday establishes his nostalgic tone that permeates…

generalization used because it is a standard practice. When Charlie remembers his past with his father, the reader learns the various roles Portland Looking Bear has played. These roles, though all Native Americans, consists of playing a “Sioux”, “Cheyenne”, “Kiowa”, “Apache” and a “Navaho” (King 151). There are two noteworthy observations from this example. Firstly, despite playing many ‘roles’, Portland never plays as a Blackfoot, his own tribe. Secondly, the fact Portland can play all those…