... SEEM REAL REAL TO EVERYBODY BECAUSE THE TRUE MEANING OF WAR LIES INSIDE THE EYES OF THE SOLDIERS. "HOW TO TELL A TRUE WAR STORY" BY TIM O'BRIEN SHOWS AN AUTHENTIC VALUE THAT ONLY A TRUE SOLDIER CAN CHERISH AND REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. AN INDIVIDUAL MUST EXPERINCE WAR TO UNDERSTAND IT. TO GENERALIZE WAR IS LIKE GENERALIZNG LIFE VERSUS DEATH."WAR IS HELL, BUT NOT HALF OF IT, BECAUSE WAR IS ALSO MYSTERY ... AND TERROR AND ADVENTURE AND COURAGE AND HOLINESS AND PITY AND DESPIAR AND LONGING AND LOVE. WAR ... MAKES YOU A MAN; WAR MAKES YOU ... ...

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... 85). The men who participated in Vietnam know about death better than anyone else. From this reading one can learn, it is safe to say, that in a true war story nothing is ever absolutely true. Bell's "Linear Design," and O"Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story" are similar in several aspects of writing. O"Brien uses sub-plots and mini-climaxes in his piece that Bell describes as symmetrically appearing ... is seen as the resolution. This part of O"Brien's piece is seen as one of the peaks on the back of the "dragon." This is how Bell and O"Brien's pieces show similarities. "Linear Design...

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... this ideal of the naveté' of the girls is comforting to these men for the reason that the innocence lost in war can be in a way eclipsed by the girls back home who are overflowing with humanity. So O'Brien feels as if it is important to tell his readers, through Rat's story of course, how the men see Mary Anne. Whether or not Mary Anne ... as even bigger than Mary Anne. She is now a being with no inhibitions under the spell of a larger entity, her true self. She represents the self that is part of Vietnam as a whole. The environment offered by the Vietnam War eventually begins to liber...

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... experiences. All the pain and suffering in those stories are the pain and suffering of Tim O"Brien. He captures his pain in his story and spreads it to his reader. "One thing O"Brien does frequently in describing the items is to tell how much [the soldiers items] weigh"(Jason Voegele, Thoughts on the Things they Carried). When he is telling the reader the weight of ... to be endured through the struggle to survive. Tim O"Brien was a Vietnam War soldier that didn't want to be there. He even fled the country to a lake in Canada in an attempt to escape the draft. As he sat there, he realiz...

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... is not only reporting information that they are given, but they are also reporting what the masses want to hear. If the ratings are good when you report on how well the war effort is going then you probably aren't going to go out of your way to tell the American people that we are over in Vietnam killing innocent people. It is almost as if ... , in which Hallin looks at the Vietnam War through the media and into American homes. While most Americans were lead to believe that they were being shown the true horrors of war, what they were really seeing was a very watered down version of the ...

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... (O'Brien 238). Lieutenant Cross, carried letters from a girl back home, Martha, who visited the same college as him. She wrote to him and told him of a story where she was on the New Jersey shoreline with a friend, she monitored the waves and how they were "separate but together" meaning that they will come together again and again for eternity (O'Brien 234 ... the realization that Martha would never love him the way he thought (O'Brien 239). The objects they carried were true and false, imaginary and existing, and uncertain and certain. "The only certain thing during the Vietnam War wa...

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... less. Movies are just another way to tell a story. That's what history was, a story. There are many different stories that talk of our nations history or story. There were many important events that were documented in many films. This includes movies like "Glory", "The Patriot", just to name a few. This paper will concentrate ... States army was and still is the strongest army in the world. But our forces faced a very grave challenge in the Second World War. That war brought about hard times. The Germans and the Japanese were just some of the people the Americans were fighting. There was...

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... because the last chapter, "The Lives of the Dead," is where O'Brien decided to talk about his first experience with death. In this chapter he talks about the true love he had for this girl named Linda, and after their first date he tells us how she was sick and passed away from a brain tumor. Linda is his love during elementary ... all the dreams he made up stick in his mind even when Tim is in war. After spending more time at war and having more experiences O'Brien understands how the soldiers handle their losses with jokes, but he never gets used to it. The memories of Linda come back...

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... a way that the country can see what is going on through pictures, sounds, and testimonies of other people. One thing that the media can do is show certain sides of a story without showing the other. The media had a tremendous influence on the American society and culture during the past half century. This effect was shown differently in each decade because different ... . The media was exploiting communist and saying that they were the evil ones. In a video about the missile crisis there were actual commercials that told you "How to Identify a Communist". The government was so intent to ...

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... damned sure that I am reelected. At a press conference that was upcoming in Hawaii Kennedy wanted to concentrate on how he could intensify the struggle, and how he could bring Americans out of there. Unfortunately Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd, 1962. If what has been documented is true, Kennedy would have pulled his forces out of Vietnam if he had won a second term. We ... in Laos. Hmong soldiers saved many American pilots who were shot down during the fighting. . Sometimes dozens of Hmong would sacrifice their lives in order to rescue one American pilot, and this showed how...

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My father's name is Juan A. Saucedo Jr., and his story begins at 17 years of age in 1974 right after high school. Being too poor to afford college and too young to join the army, he got a marriage license so they would accept him. The military was perfect because it offered job training for civilian ... battle came, we were so scared the drip of sweat off your forehead hitting the ground sounded like a gunshot. All my senses were heightened, I don't know how, but you could feel it when something was out there, and we were ready for it. If we were caught by surprise everyone would be firing, ...

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