The sunlight gleamed off of him, in a somewhat peaceful way, although he had just passed away because of a silly game. Rat Kiley feels complete responsibility for Lemon’s death, and indeed, finds his own coping mechanism. The soldiers see a young water buffalo near by, and Rat Kiley already knew what he was going to do to try to rid himself of his guilt. Kiley steps closer to the buffalo with a gun, and torturously shoots at it. He does not immediately kill the water buffalo, but instead shoots it in places he knows the animal will feel immense pain and sorrow.
Zain Saleemuddin Mrs. Wyeth English 2- PAP, A1 1/7/13 “The Lives of the Dead” by Tim O’Brien Plot Summary It has been O’Brien’s 4th day in war at a village near the South China Sea. His platoon was taking sniper fire so Lieutenant Jimmy Cross called in an airstrike watching the village burn. The soldiers gathered around a dead old man and were shaking its hand. Dave Jensen tried to get O’Brien to do the same thing but he refused because he was scared. Kiowa thought his action was impressive and complimenting him of having guts to say no.
With the working bow, he could catch and kill fish and birds to eat their meat and make feathered arrows. Later, a tornado hits close to Brian’s shelter and destroys his shelter and puts out his fire. It also throws his tools into the lake. He immediately works on making a new fire, knowing that fire is needed to survive in the wilderness: “He worked slowly, but even so, with his new skill he had a fire going in less than an hour” (Paulsen 150). With fire, he is protected from animals.
Tim reveals the dead guy’s was name Curt Lemon. He died because he was goofing off with Rat Kiley. The game involved with smoke grenade, Lemmon stepped out of the sunlight and step on a booby trap. Tim said that some time the crazy stuff is truth and the normal stuff isn’t. Sometime you can’t even tell a true war story.
He fell in front of me. I hacked him across the back with my inkota, a sharp blade for slaughtering cattle” (pg. 25- 26 of Machete Season online version on Google Play). Alphonse also felt that saving Tutsi babies was not acceptable or needed. “Saving the babies, that was not practical.
Comparing American Voices: The Toll of War Matthew Siegert History 1025 Professor Villarreal November 13, 2009 The Vietnam War was a place in history of brutal killings and political shamble. The whole war was fought over a political crisis yet America won every battle, but not the war. Four American voices are heard in the Toll of War and their voices lay out a timeline of gruesome events and the reality of the Vietnam War. From being forced into fighting for economic reasons to having no choice but to join the war, the four voices show us what it was really like for soldiers on the field. Donald L. Whitfield was a southern Alabama boy who grew up a confederate and worked on cars for a living.
A.P. English 11 May 27, 2014 What is a true war story? One that tells of death and gloom, or one that defends the peaceful front? The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien explains to the world of readers what a true war story is. O’Brien tells these stories with different tones depending on which recollection; it is light and hopeful during “Love” or dark and hopeless within “The Man I Killed.” To create these works he uses imagination and invention to describe the true difficulties of a true war story.
One day while eating, the family spots a scarlet ibis on a tree but later it dies because of the environmental change. Later on, the older brother pushed Doodle so hard, slowly weakening Doodle and when the storm comes, as they’re running the older brother decides to ditch Doodle. Leaving Doodle behind, the older brother goes back to find Doodle who has not come back yet and the older brother sees that Doodle is bleeding from his mouth and neck causing Doodle’s death. Many people question if it is the older brother’s fault, and it is his fault because of his lack of responsibility, pushing Doodle to his limits, and how the older brother just left him in the storm. Since the brother is older than Doodle, the older brother is responsible for Doodle’s action and risks because the doctor has given a list of what not to do.
When he returned home, age was only a number. He was forced to grow extremely fast because he was exposed to real life morale dilemmas between right and wrong. O’Brien uses the illustrates symbolism that in the scene with of the baby water buffalo to illustrate misplaced anger. Rat had lost his best friend in Curt Lemon, and wrote a heart felt letter to Lemon’s sister describing the role her brother had played in his life. It was not really a war story at all, it was more of a love story as described by O’Brien.
(288) O’Brien explains that if “you don’t care for obscenity, you don’t care for the truth” He goes on to explain that when men go to war they will come home talking dirty. He opens telling the story of a soldier, Rat, that lost a close friend. Rat’s friend was killed by an IED. He and Rat had been playing a game, the young man turned to walk away and tripped the detonator on the IED. They were both 19.