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Therapy of the Vietnam War In the book “The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien describes his and others experiences during and after the Vietnam War. (1) O’Brien tells this story to explain the different ways that troops were able to cope with the killing, death, and changes that went on during the war so that they could continue fighting. (2) O’Brien included many first hand accounts of the different ways the troops coped with the experiences they had during the war and when they returned to…

Many Americans believe that the Kent State incident in 1970 was the turning point during the Vietnam War. Anti-war protest towards the beginning of the war began as non-violent protest but slowly became violent. The Kent State incident was a protest gone violent to bring back American troops from Vietnam. No one knows exactly why the guardsmen shot some believe it was a sniper some guardsmen claim to have heard other guardsmen shoot so they shot too. In the article titled (PUT IN FOOTNOTE)“THE…

“Over 20 years, more than 58,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam and more than 150,000 wounded, not to mention the emotional toll the war took on American culture.” (Blake 1 ) In Tim O’Brien’s novel “The Things They Carried” death was a daily occurrence, on both the American and the Vietnamese side. O’Brien writes about the function of memory, traditions of war literature and the difference between Tim as a soldier and Tim as a writer. Tim O 'Brien 's novel “The Things They Carried” is…

Eighty-seven. Eighty-seven rounds of tear gas catalysed the 2014 Hong Kong Occupation, a big tent civil disobedience campaign for democracy, and served as my awakening moment. It set me on discovering deeper issues and how the intertwined disciplines of philosophy, politics and economics are able to explain and solve issues beneath the surface of the movement. Academically, the movement prompted me to read Mill's 'On Liberty' and Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience,' only questioning whether it is…

War is considered by many to be one of humanity’s central traits as an advancing species and as such it holds a heavy influence on our past, present and future. From warring tribes in Africa during the dawn of man to the great Empires of Greece and Persia warfare has always been present, whether this war is for defense of a homeland and families, to conquest for more power and wealth or freedom from persecution and oppression. These forces drive mankind and have pushed us technologically and…

his and the experiences of many other soldiers in the Vietnam War. He describes all the horrible things they see, what they feel, and the impact of the war on them. Along with the memories of war, he also includes the art of writing and the importance of stories. In some of the chapters, O’Brien even writes about events that never actually happened. According to Tim O’Brien’s criteria, “The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” is a true war story because it is hard to believe, it does not suggest…

The Vietnam War was considerably much more than American soldiers going out in combat to fight the enemy, but rather a mental warfare fighting themselves. Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried” is an American classic that conveys the physical things the soldiers were carrying while also expressing the mental burdens they carry during the Vietnam War. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, like many other soldiers, long for the love from the ones they left back home. Cross yearns for one girl…

The Vietnam War brought many concerns to American Citizens. Protesters throughout the United States claimed America’s involvement in the war was both unjust and unethical. Likewise, Tim O’Brien, the author of many Vietnam based novels, expressed the same feelings of unjust and unethical means for America’s involvement in the war. In 1968, O’Brien graduated with his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and within the same year was drafted to the United States Army and served his time in…

Wilhelm likens her village to the My Lai massacre in order to essentially bring the war back home to America by comparing what happened to the Vietnamese citizens in real life to that of the American civilians in the village. “The Village”, being written in 1969, is during the Vietnam War in which American citizens are protesting against being involved with a war related to Vietnamese independence. For example, Wilhelm uses Mildred Carry as a writing strategy to show that Americans soldiers are…

At this time in history, not many people believed in the Vietnam War. Critics called it ‘morally unjust’ and said that we had no business fighting in another country’s civil war. People felt that going to Vietnam was a waste of time and resources, and yet soldiers were still drafted and forced to fight. These men agreed to go to war because of their pride. They did not want to fight for their country, nor did they believe in the cause. However, in…