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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 ...
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...
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...
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
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...
They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...
sense of purpose. An examination of this novel demonstrates that reading this novel would be, in all likelihood, totally demoraliz...
to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...
to think about such things, yet memories continue to crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories a...
old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...
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 ...
In six pages this paper considers classical and contemporary examples of war literature. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliog...
Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...
B horror movies, or direct "Pee Wee Hermans Big Adventure?" Some what of a chameleon, himself isnt he? Lets see how much. Biogra...
by employing a chauffeur. Miss Daisy has strict ideas of what is right and proper, and having been brought up in Jewish social cul...
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...
first telling the reader the reactions of one character, and then another. For example, the writer tells the reader about Ritas fe...
If we look to biology the definition of masculine is related to that of male. The male animal has testicles as opposed to ovaries...
the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...
unnamed narrator in this short story. First of all, Oates employs a postmodernist structure in order to convey this girls story,...
and makes sense in our world (Fournier, 2005). Then, we check the narrative fidelity and compare it to whether or not it matches o...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
This paper addresses the narrative structure of the 1978 horror classic, Halloween by director John Carpenter. The author discuss...
of 2005 to determine "the most critical technology needs for law enforcement" (International Association of Chiefs of Police, 2005...
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....