... . In Tim O"Brien's novel The Things They Carried and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment the main characters find themselves in extraordinary circumstances time and time again. O"Brien and Dostoyevsky both use stylistic devices to entrap their main characters in these extraordinary circumstances. Tim (O"Brien's main character) and Raskolnikov's (Dostoyevsky's main character) struggles and strategies to survive these extraordinary circumstances are what make their ... the war. Another major factor in Tim's extraordinary circumstance is death. Tim is greatly affected by watching...

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