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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...

in Vietnam. As the war fades further into the past, its important that authors like OBrien continue to remind Americans of the dif...

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...

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...

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...

the slave mentality without thought it seems. As she develops in the book she comes to realize that it is very frightening how ...

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...

sense of purpose. An examination of this novel demonstrates that reading this novel would be, in all likelihood, totally demoraliz...

Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...

out of his clan like a fish onto a dry sandy beach, panting" (Achebe 92). In other words, the women would reiterate what the prove...

B horror movies, or direct "Pee Wee Hermans Big Adventure?" Some what of a chameleon, himself isnt he? Lets see how much. Biogra...

the directors chose to employ properties of historical revisionism speaks to the inherent influence the concept of truth versus fi...

alive to confirm conversations nor recording equipment to verify accuracy. However, an author writing historic fiction must do a g...

is where expenses and income are matched to the period in which they occur not the period in which they are paid or received. The ...

also shows how the Nation of Islam similarly rehabilitated other prostitutes and drug dealers during the time, "providing moral gu...

preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...

Few movies have sparked more controversy than JFK, Oliver Stone's 1991 descent into conspiracy theory. This paper offers a critica...

strategies" (Greer, 2001). HRVS (2007) carried this thought further when it wrote: "Every organization begins with a mission or re...

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...

has to do with accuracy. First, the film is well accomplished to an extent. Obviously, it is not as good as if it were done in som...

of 2005 to determine "the most critical technology needs for law enforcement" (International Association of Chiefs of Police, 2005...