I didn’t pick a specific passage for the author’s tone; I read the book and got the overview of the tone instead because the tone is so bipolar throughout the book due to the multiple soldiers in it. The Things They Carried by Tom O’Brien is a powerful outlook on the experiences of “grunts” or low-ranked soldiers in the Vietnam War and after the war. The author was a grunt during the late 60s in the Vietnam War, so his book is concurrently a group of fictional short stories, a war autobiography, and writer's memoir. O’Brien made it very clear that his book was to be considered a work of fiction. O'Brien immediately and most likely deliberately blurs the line between fact and fiction by dedicating the novel to certain individuals that the reader soon discovers
The Things They Carried, a novel written by Tim O’Brian is a series of twenty-two short stories dealing with the Vietnamese war. The protagonist, Tim O’Brian, who shares the name of the book’s author, is faced with many challenges and tragedies while going through life before, during, and after the war. In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brian uses both reality and fiction when narrating his stories, thus leaving the reader to determine what is fact and story among the many excerpts of the book. Storytelling is key in the fictional aspects of the novel; as for it deals with character O’Brian’s self-healing process from his memories of the brutal war by writing war stories. As O’Brian explains, story telling is effective because "by telling
His personal reasons for attempting this daunting experiment are much more complex and not always clear to the reader. What were his motivations for living a year without an impact on the environment? How did he stay motivated and continue the project for the whole year? The answers to these questions range from his guilt over his family's consumption of resources to his own up-bringing and family history. One of the earliest and most profound reasons for his experiment was the guilt over his own family's waste in their daily lives.
Lonely Nights Nobody ever understands what it’s like until it happens to them. The day I dreaded had finally arrived. I held his hand tight, holding back the tears as we approached the gate. The anxiety built up as the question lingered throughout my thoughts. “When will you be coming back home..?” I hesitantly asked.
Since men were fighting for the country, this propaganda encouraged women to take roles men had to do before they left for the war. This suggestion was shown by demonstrating the lady in the picture drilling through metal. The picture also displayed, she was working on war equipment. Also, the propaganda shows a slogan saying "Do the job HE left behind". Meaning since most men had gone to war, nobody else but women were able to fill men's daily roles.
Although the stories in the novel may not all be fact bases, O’Brian actually had knowledge of the war because he experienced it first hand. This novel lets you get a deeper look into how the soldiers felt during the Vietnam War. “The Things They Carried” depicts a gruesome but realistic look as to what the Vietnam War was like. “The Man I Killed” shows readers that American soldiers were remorseful of their actions during war time. There are many truths in “The Things They Carried” because it gives readers a deeper look into the feelings of the
Holden feels depressed from the prior events in his family, and no longer has the desire to learn or strive to be successful. Holden feels distant from his family, and needs their loving care. After a rough childhood, Holden just needs someone, like Phoebe, there for him. He needs love and support from his family, and their sending him to boarding school to fend for himself is not a good idea. Holden can’t find a true friend in anyone, and he is trying to fill the hole that his brother’s death left in his life.
World War I affected many people during its time of war. WWI was known as the war that ended without any country knowing why it started in the first place. From the mid 1914 to late 1918, the lives of women and men changed for the better. The war impacted the men who had to leave their job to support the battle and the women who kept up with the jobs in order to keep the war running. The women went from running the house to running the factory.
There, in front of a dingy motel, Father waited. His face seemed to express relief.my heart sank. After years of my useless prayers, I knew it had finally happened-my parents were separated. I closed my fists so tightly I thought my fingers would tear into the palms of my hands.” (150-151) At the end of the plot David feels helpless he had lost faith that any good was going to come to him. The only person he had trusted and thought that he was going to get him out of his misery was
Started having bad luck and in order to dare with his failures in life, he started thinking about his past and it seem that he doesn't know what's real or fake in life. He try to relive the good old days he had in the past but the thing is that all wrong choices he made also started coming up in his mind as well. When his family notice what was going with his they try to help him by not telling him what was going on with their life and all the money problems they have. In addition, Wily lost his job after many years with same company. Gregor was a man who works hard to help his family for they can live well.