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In six pages this paper considers classical and contemporary examples of war literature. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliog...
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 emotions are portrayed in the contemporary literary works The Things They Carried by Tim O'B...
has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...
reader feel as if he or she is sitting in some small caf? and OBrien is telling you his personal recollection of his time in Vietn...
Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...
torn apart, and how a part of them is destroyed. As an example, "Cross carried letters from a girl names Martha" (OBrien 1). Oth...
drinking, and want to get more for it" (Sinclair Chapter 2). In this the image of Jurgis is one that evokes thoughts of morality...
of whom he believes himself to be, as well as his psychological coping mechanisms in surviving the war. Cross, by choosing to ca...
crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories and then abandon them before reaching a conclusion, on...
watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...
Caputo's Vietnam War memoir is reviewed in a paper consisting of two and a half pages....
In five pages this 1983 memoir on soldiers' Vietnam War experiences is summarized, reviewed, and critiqued....
Stones "Born on the 4th of July" (1989), Barry Levinsons "Good Morning,Vietnam" (1987), and Hal Ashbys "Coming Home" (1978). A goo...
In five pages this paper discusses how the author is able to blur reality and fiction through his unique novel structure in The Th...
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...
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...
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
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....
In three pages this novel first published in 1937 is analyzed regarding the author's use of symbolism....
In five pages this paper considers the author's attitudes regarding war as reflected in the First World War soldiers in the novel ...
Barry Zorthian was the "official voice of America" in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 as director of the Public Affairs Office (290). In...
comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...
In five pages this book by Tim O'Brien regarding a young soldier's Vietnam War experiences is reviewed. There are no other source...
and instead of taking the lead, Presidents were being relegated to the role of follower. Policymakers envisioned themselves as th...