Essays 61 - 90
In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...
or another. In the case of the Vietnam War, and OBriens book, the consequence of war was, in many cases, age. As we shall see, the...
from the text. However, the traumatic experiences that torture him do come out, but, they do so slowly, in bits and pieces. Somet...
In eleven pages this paper examines how author Tim O'Brien intentionally obscures the fine line between real life and fiction in h...
This five page report analyzes the structure utilized by Tim O'Brien. The contention is presented that this utilization effectiv...
In seven pages this report analyzes Tim Burton's film Sleepy Hollow in terms of Johnny Depp's performance and cinematic influences...
totally true (p. 89). The sole criteria that OBrien supports for telling a "true" war story is this: "It comes down to gut instin...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
In five pages this paper examines how emotions are portrayed in the contemporary literary works The Things They Carried by Tim O'B...
In eight pages this paper examines the music and art popular during war times in a consideration of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacc...
In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...
In five pages this novel analysis of In the Lake in the Woods by Tim O'Brien focuses upon the uses of politics and sorcery. There...
This three page paper analyzes crime and punishment from the perspective of the film by Tim Robbins. The question of whether just...
pinned all his hopes and dreams. So, with the aid of a friend, as his tour of duty ended, he removed his name from the company ro...
a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...
rather jumbled form in both of these novels proves to be the perfect medium for reflecting the chaotic psychological landscape of ...
In five pages this book by Tim O'Brien regarding a young soldier's Vietnam War experiences is reviewed. There are no other source...
This essay presents the argument that "Edward Scissorhands," directed by Tim Burton, is a modern, gothic-tinged version of the fai...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at the works of Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien. The treatment of "truth" in a fictio...
be righted. Early Years and Career Costello was born in Melbourne, Australia and was the eldest of three children. From...
to be examined is Jimmy Cross. The narrator indicates that, "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha...
Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...
incredibly exaggerated that his stories were immensely entertaining. But, in the case of OBriens novel one must perhaps insist tha...
with a wretched climate where theyre always hot and miserable, where they cant tell friend from foe, and where half their battles ...
was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...
attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...
the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...
book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...