Bourne, on the other hand, used to be an emotionless and fearless killer but in the end he turned out to be good man. While struggling with their life and professions, Ross and Bourne both arrived at a time wherein they started a rebellious stage against their superiors that brought them obstacles that freed them in the end. As trained soldier and perfect hit man, both Ross and Bourne always do what they are told until they became their own side. At the warfront, Robert Ross was controlled by his commander and all he could do was follow every instruction that was told. It is evident when he and his men were instructed by Captain Leather to go to the crater.
The Things They Carried, a novel written by Tim O’Brien, raises the question of the extent of truthfulness of stories that are told from experience in which the novel is solely based on the accounts of war-veterans and their lives in Vietnam. The soldiers fighting in the war describe certain stories that have affected them the most and from that reader’s can interpret that the armed forces are able to capture the attention of their listeners through providing immense detail of the conditions, adding false information in order to increase suspense, and to evoke emotions with listeners to create parallel feelings with the story at hand. Through O’Brien’s techniques of writing these war accounts he blurs between actual truth and fiction. As a
Adding on to my previous thoughts, the reason why the sentences are so casual is because the novel overall was created to emphasize the life style and thought processes of soldiers during the war with the use of vulgar diction/profanity and the use of slang. The longer sentences in the book are generally used to describe an entire or used to provide imagery to the reader. The shorter/simpler sentences are used to make quick statements and to get right to the point. With the use of short sentences, O’Brien can express a clear concise straight into the reader which allows for a quicker understanding of a character’s current circumstances or mood. With the use of long sentences, O’Brien uses vivid imagery which allows the readers to use their own five senses to paint their own ideas of the war scenes being described.
Baggage: Inside and Out “The Things They Carried,” written by Tim O’Brien helped recognize particular aspects of the Vietnam War as it associated with the soldiers and their lives individually and collectively. O’Brien described the overall mood of the war and the soldiers involved regarding the physical, psychological, and emotional weight the soldiers bared. We too, as individuals carry things with us in our daily lives that attribute something to our physical or mental well-being. For me, these are feelings as well as tangible objects. The men in this story carried “all the emotional baggage of men who might die.
On the pathos we also see international emotional support of wounded warrior especially in Remstein Germany, where soldiers injured in Iraq are first transported to before the head back to the united states .Here the soldiers receive both emotional and material support such blankets ,jackets clothes ,flowers, from the community volunteers before they head back to United States for further treatment. As we hear the testimonies of wounded veterans ,there is no glorification of battle or any political standing being portrayed. It only makes the viewers feel empathy for the soldiers but makes them think of how they would want someone to care about them uring their recovery situation and desire for calm as the music portrays in the back ground. The injuries from he wounded warriors on the video brings an emotional effect for everyone that gets to watch he
he Things They Carried In Tim O'Brien's novel The Things They Carried, he uses a metafictive style to preserve war stories. O'Brien keeps readers questioning what part of the Vietnam stories are true and how much of it is fictionalized. He points out that the fictionalization does not matter and that the stories are examples of the revolting things that go on in war. In the war in order to keep the dead alive O'Brien says they continued to tell their stories. However, the stories are exaggerated and the truth lies with the dead.
O'Brien's war stories, "The Things They Carried" and "How to Tell a True War Story" were similar in concerning the mental turmoil that Servicemen undergo while experiencing a life fighting in a war. My hands-on experiences are limited in physical contact; however; both stories are told by the narrator(s) about a letter that is being wrote to two special people of interest. In reference to Lieutenant Cross's letter from "a girl name Martha" (O'Brien p. 78), his misconception of “wishful thinking" about a virgin name Martha, he knew was mentally a myth, "the Love was only a way of signing and did not mean that he sometimes pretended" (78). However; O’Brien’s "How to Tell a True War Story," the 2nd person narrator describes his encounter about his Vietnam collogue during the time of his murder. This character uses the writing technique to "the guy's sister" (O'Brien p. 361) proves to the readers that he grieves and distraction of this incident consistently overtakes his daily focus.
Title Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried blends the truth of a Vietnam War memoir and the facts of a writer’s autobiography. He combines imagination with reality, all the while meditating on the war, his memories, and the power to redeem oneself through storytelling. The song “For What It’s Worth” by Buffalo Springfield and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried both The “things” of the title that O’Brien’s characters carry are both literal and figurative. While they all carry heavy physical loads, including steel helmets, boots, guns, ammunition, and flak jackets, they also all carry heavy emotional loads, made up of responsibility, anguish, horror, love, and longing. Each man’s physical encumbrance accentuates his emotional encumbrance.
Analysis of “The Things They Carried” by William Timothy O’Brien Among the two stories in which is analyzed and compared are “The Things They Carried” and “Fallen Angels”, which represents the point of view for surviving a war. Both of the books also talks about how they were doing in the war. The stories expressed some type of racism in it. In fallen Angels it talks about how Richie met two new recruits named Peewee and Jenkins. Both stories spoke of the order to anchor their narratives to a larger world, but also because they were unable to escape the often terrifying memories of their war experience.
Sturken notes:”To the veterans, the wall is an atonement for their treatment since the war; to the families and friends of those who died, it is an official recognition of their sorrow and an opportunity to express a grief that was not previously sanctioned; to others, it is either a profound antiwar statement or an opportunity to rewrite the history of the war to make it fit more neatly into the master narrative of American imperialism.” (Sturken 80) The memorial is not designed to represent any particular image or item and instead reflects the stigma inflicted upon veterans returning home from the war. Veterans were expected to act as if they had not sacrificed for their country and to separate themselves from a war where they were often seen as complicit in an abuse of American power. The wall reflects this sentiment and evokes the veterans’ implicit feeling of abandonment while simultaneously providing a safe haven for memorialization and remembrance. It does not dictate the narrative of memory and instead promotes personal reflection because of its abstract form, leaving individuals to analyze and interpret their memories as they