Milone Mrs. Holton AP Language (P2) 10 September 2011 The Things They Carried: Fact Versus Fiction Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried emphasizes not only the surreality of war, but also where to draw the line into reality. The makes up characters, places, and stories to get his argument across throughout the novel, making it contradictory and fictitious, but at the same time creating a sense of reality. In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien illuminates the differences between fact and fiction
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien expresses the importance of a story-truth, as opposed to a happening-truth by use of literary elements in his writing. The novel is about war and the guilt it leaves on everyone involved in the war. The four literary devices he uses to express this are diction, imagery, juxtaposition, and hyperbole. All of these elements allow the reader to identify emotion that is expressed in each story, as though that were the complete truth. O'Brien's diction is descriptive
“The Things they Carried” “The Things they Carried” Steven A. Bauman English Literature David Heikes November 5, 2011 Abstract The things they Carried is a short story pertaining to the Vietnam War, unraveling the emotional and physical ordeals that the soldiers had to go through in their day to day existence. The author successfully brings to fore the burden of intangible things that the soldiers carried in their mind
11/29/11 Journal “The Things They Carried” My reaction the story was on how much stuff they had to carry from all the gun and ammunition and all the other stuff like food and water. I was also surprised on how much a lot of things weighed ounces but sooner or later would end up weighing in pounds. I also noticed that soldiers carry other things than physical stuff like all the pressure, fear, and memories. I liked how it told a story about lieutenant Jimmy Cross and his crush on Martha and his
“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien 1. We learned that Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is weak when it comes down to love when he is in the middle of war “More than anything he wanted Martha to love him as much as he loved her.” But yet he is brave to leave or forget about love because he doesn’t know if he’s being loved back and his soldiers need him more than anything. “On the morning after Ted Lavender died, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross crouched at the bottom of his foxhole and burned Martha’s
In the short story The Things They Carried written by author Tim O' Brian, is an authentic story of the haunting experiences gone through the soldiers traveling the tenure of Vietnam. Throughout the story, the narrator begins to tell a tale about a platoon searching and roaming Vietnam; in the torturous valley, each character is described by carrying objects that possibly made the soldiers feel somewhat capable of maintaining some control over themselves. However, these unreal or real objects were
sure it is very traumatizing. In “The Things They Carried”, Tim O’Brien gives us details and allows us to vision what’s going on throughout the story. The story shows the literal and symbolic “things” they carried. In the literal sense O'Brien talks about what different members of a platoon in Vietnam carried. This helps him to move to a more symbolic sense at the end of the story. He starts by talking about necessities and slowly moves on to what they carried to remind them that there was a world
In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried the reader is introduced to several soldiers who are fighting in Vietnam. Throughout the book O’Brien shows how the soldiers have to deal with various situations which ultimately changes them in many ways. In what ways does the war change these soldiers, and will they ever be the same? Going to Vietnam causes all these soldiers to grow up much faster than their peers who are back home. Many of the men come to war somewhere between the age of 18 and 21, and
There is always more than one side to a story, in the novel by Tim O’Brien it shows that many events can happen but will be interpreted in many different ways. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is not a war story, but a post-war story, the story of what the outsiders can’t understand but what insiders can’t explain. Tim O’Brien recalls and tells some of his experiences about the Vietnam war, as well as makes reflections about the events. He shows his feelings through stories that are difficult
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a story about items a camp of soldiers carried while in Vietnam. The story describes the horrible conditions of Vietnam and how it affects the soldiers mentally and physically. The list of things they carried is a way for the narrator to describe the Vietnam experience but the items also helps discuss the emotional problems of the soldiers. These frightened men choose to take on the additional weight of pictures, letters, and other things that remind them