YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Jimmy Cross and The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien
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to be examined is Jimmy Cross. The narrator indicates that, "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha...
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 ...
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...
in Vietnam. As the war fades further into the past, its important that authors like OBrien continue to remind Americans of the dif...
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
to think about such things, yet memories continue to crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories a...
sense of purpose. An examination of this novel demonstrates that reading this novel would be, in all likelihood, totally demoraliz...
They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...
Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...
to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...
the slave mentality without thought it seems. As she develops in the book she comes to realize that it is very frightening how ...
without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...
old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...
In six pages this paper considers classical and contemporary examples of war literature. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliog...
In five pages this paper discusses how the author is able to blur reality and fiction through his unique novel structure in The Th...
rather jumbled form in both of these novels proves to be the perfect medium for reflecting the chaotic psychological landscape of ...
and gather a crop. "Good or bad fortune for owners of smaller farms would inevitably be shared by their tenants," Carter noted....
the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...
B horror movies, or direct "Pee Wee Hermans Big Adventure?" Some what of a chameleon, himself isnt he? Lets see how much. Biogra...
There is a direct relationship between cultural and cross-cultural psychology. It is cultural psychology that provides the basis f...
By carrying food items with her all of the time she was exercising complete control over her body, the one thing that she had powe...
In six pages this paper analyzes cross dressing featured in the 1982 film Tootsie through the male gaze theories of feminist autho...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
Saigon; its the real-life slog of the guys out in the field, the ones who took the chance of dying every time they went on patrol....
of 2005 to determine "the most critical technology needs for law enforcement" (International Association of Chiefs of Police, 2005...
that are specific to each individuals defined social status; while one person might consider a purchased home with a white picket ...
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...