"The Things They Carried" In the short story "The Things They Carried" Tim O"Brien faces Jimmy Cross with the problem of surviving while fighting in Vietnam. While trying to maintain his sanity, Jimmy struggles between his old self and the person he has to become. Jimmy has to make some difficult decisions while in his tour, and most of them come to his attention after his friend Ted Lavender ... to overcome another great hurdle in his strive for complete leadership. Individualities against Conformity. Everyone in the story had their own things they carried, some carried lucky pebbles like Jim...

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... across to see if the enemy was hiding in them. All these actions, and descriptions of feeling together give the reader a matter-of-fact reality of the story. The point of view of the story comes from a narrator telling the story. The narrator knows all and sees all, and lets the reader know everything. The fact that the story is a narrative is another reason why "The Things They Carried" is a story. "The Things They Carried" shows a change in ... some characters after they interact with other characters and deal with their ... ...

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In the short story "The Things They Carried" Tim O"Brien faces Jimmy Cross with the problem of surviving while fighting in Vietnam. While trying to maintain his sanity, Jimmy struggles between his old self and the person he has to become. Jimmy has to make some difficult decisions while in his tour, and most of them come to his attention after his friend Ted Lavender is ... needed to overcome another great hurdle in his strive for complete leadership. Individuality against Conformity. Everyone in the story had there own things they carried, some carried lucky pebbles like Jimmy and others ca...

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Tough Love in "The Things They Carried," by Tim O"Brien In Tim O"Briens "The Things They Carried," O"Brien describes the blind obsession of Lieutenant Jimmy Cross for a young girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. Burdened by the physical and psychological aspects of the Vietnam War, Cross often finds himself daydreaming and distracted by thoughts about her. Out one day on another one of their ... seemingly meaningless missions, Cross and his men are investigating tunnels near the ... a better soldier; it helps him prioritize what his duties are, to keep himself...

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Tough Love in "The Things They Carried," by Tim O"Brien In Tim O"Briens "The Things They Carried," O"Brien describes the blind obsession of Lieutenant Jimmy Cross for a young girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. Burdened by the physical and psychological aspects of the Vietnam War, Cross often finds himself daydreaming and distracted by thoughts about her. Out one day on another one of their ... seemingly meaningless missions, Cross and his men are investigating tunnels near the ... a better soldier; it helps him prioritize what his duties are, to keep himself...

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... dramatically. But, realizing that there is no true preparation for war. In the book The Things they Carried, written by Tim O"Brien takes place in the Vietnam era. In the Vietnam era war confronted everybody. The draft was opened and teens straight out of high school were being drafted. They all were faced with the issue. Some felt like they could avoid it, some were "sissy" enough to go north to ... Canada to dodge the draft. For Tim O"Brien he felt the same way "I was to ... how much courage we have. Men and women alike are able to make these decisions. In Tim's novel his representat...

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... he actually experienced in the war. I think this was the purpose of the novel, to show normal readers that they can comprehend stories from people who served in war but they'll never really understand or have the full experience of what its like to have to keep those stories as a part of their lives and a weight on their consciences. The ending of The Things They Carried was effective at finishing ... the novel to me, as it ... gave a sense of finality to all of the stories, the final explanation being that stories keep the dead alive and the retelling of these stories keeps them makin...

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... I became aware of everything that stream carried along with it. I'd sense danger in the very air I needed to survive. But, what scared me the most was never seeing all of that before; to be suddenly awakened from a dream, as it were. Now, several days later, I'm finally beginning to think of other things again; real thoughts, not just the same recurring dream. Just this morning, for ... I thought as I watched him pull the sled. Then I noticed the whip. At first I couldn't see it clearly, but once the donkey reacted to it, I knew what it was and I knew who the man was too. He was a drive...

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... overwhelming vastness that was carried along with it. "What good is a newborn baby?", quoted from him in retort to "What good is it?". From this, one can assume that there are so many possibilities in a newborn baby. Will it live? What will it become? Will it be a person that changes the economy, the society, the general way of life? In things such as shock therapy ... was less chance of pregnancy. Also, their techniques would obviously be superior, and the "old women were "so grateful!!"" This chauvinistic attitude bears a closer look. Women were foreign to Franklin, the numbers of his...

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The Things They Carried The Things They Carried was full of war stories, each one telling a telling a different kind of truth. The author Tim O"Brien refers to two different kinds of truth. The first he calls the story-truth. He says "I want you to know why the story-truth is truer sometimes than the happening-truth." (Pg.179) Telling the happening-truth sometimes doesn't get the point across. The story-truth puts different images into ... exactly what that person was going through. Telling the happening-truth is just going through the motions and most of the time just telling the actual stor...

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... , and complex words and lengthy sentences really wouldn't fit who the characters are. Tim O'Brien was able to put a face to Vietnam in such a short amount of pages, and words. He captured, by stating the physical things they carried and their weights, the weight of the mental things they carried, the conflict in carrying that, and the hiding of all emotions, if they can. And though my research, O'Brien himself served in Vietnam ... . So he is the best person to write this type of story. He stated in the article "The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter ... ...

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... 't suspect anything was going on. Montressor turned on Fortunado at the end and chained him up to a wall. This was all carried out by Montressor's perfect plan, which was able to happen because of his rage towards Fortunado. Individuals are able to think of things they wouldn't normally think of when they are mad and they can come up with flawless plans to carry out their ... revenge on their enemy. In the story the "Cask Of Amontillado" it illustrates the idea that the human mind can come ... at some point in their lifetime goes through one situation or another that makes them very ups...

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... , were considered more attractive. It was interesting to see how many different factors played into attraction. Physical appearance was at the top of the list, but also mentioned were things like how a person carried themselves, how they spoke, body language and so on. Because every one of us is different, there is no clear way of explaining what people find to be attractive. I also enjoyed ... watching in the video when it showed people of different cultures. The way they were attracted to others and how they acted on it often varied from ... what I experience in the United States ... ...

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... on Marmeladov "s windowsill, he believes that he has done " a stupid thing" since "they have Sonia and I want it myself." By giving money to Marmeladov's family, Raskolnikov shows a moment of emotional impulsiveness, but then the intellectual side of him makes him regret it. Also, later a similar situation occurs when Raskolnikov ... gives a policeman money to help a sixteen-year-old girl, saying to himself, "He has carried off my twenty copecks And why did I want to ... and intellectual. Most of all, the person whom Raskolnikov is trying to hide his true emotions from the most is hims...

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... to something, he still carried with him this supreme sense of riotousness . 7. The novel ended with what I think was a fair end logical ending. Two weeks after the Martians had landed on Earth, they quickly died off. This was because their immune systems were not able to fight against the tiny bacteria that man and other living things have grown accustom to over the last 2.5 billion years. I think ... that this was the best way the book could have ended. It would seem very illogical for ... the men to fight against these machines because the whole book was nothing ... ...

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... made. Once out on the ice he realized that he had not carried a compass with him; a mistake that would take the lives of many. George, once aboard the Stephano did not have nerve enough to tell the "old man" that they should stay on the boat all night for fear of a storm. This showed that Tuff was not responsible enough to bring the things he needed but also showed ... that he was also a coward. The Public Commission of ... Inquiry put half of the blame on Tuff for the whole incident even occurring. The Public Commission of Inquiry placed the other half of the blame on ... ...

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... banishment." But truthfully, she does not wish all that against him because she loves him. It is passion that causes her to do such thing. Many of the actions that the characters carried out in the play were all due to irrational decision that is caused by passions. Passion overwhelms reason. Another example where passion overwhelms reason is when Theseus condemned Hyppolytus to death ... because he though that Hyppolytus committed adultery with his wife, Phaedra. Although Hyppolytus denied it and told his side of the story, Theseus still condemned him. His lack of ... was forced to li...

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... normal rules don't apply. These people have invaded our land, locked up our families. They caused your dog to die Ellie, and they tried to kill you three. The Greek side of me understands these things. The moment they left the country to come here, they knew what they were doing. They"re the ones who tore up the rule book, not us." "Thanks Homer," I said, he really had helped me." P96 ... Robyn reacted when Lee needed her most. " I think she was a bloody hero. She picked up the photocopier that sits on a stand near the lottery desk and chucked the whole thing through the door. Then she ...

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... , 4 legs good", this is exactly the case here. The human people were probably the most hated of all things by the animals. Mr. Jones was a horrible, pathetic farmer who didn't really give a damn about the animals on the farm and we were all used and abused. The rebellion was a huge success and we got our justice over the human people. They never came to the farm very often after that but ... . But working them hard and worsening the conditions made the animals much more grateful when they got a little extra. They would go straight to bed sometimes after hard days work and when they got up...

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... 's office for her grandson's medicine, she has to walk from one town to another. All the while, she has to deal with her mind playing tricks on her. She at first thought that the scarecrow was a ghost, who was coming for her. Still, she carried on. While continuing her journey, she comes across a barbed wire fence. Without hesitation, she crawls carefully underneath to ... came along. She remained unflinching when he let off his gunshot in the air. Phoenix refused to show fear even when the hunter's gun was pointed in her face. That, most of all shows her bravery. Phoenix Jackson's cunni...

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... about yourself, your values, and your morals, that remain largely unchanging. I've spent a lot of my life doing self-contemplation, and I feel comfortable sharing some things I've learned about myself, who really am. -I am an emotional person. No, I don't mean that I'm a drama queen (er king) and that everything ... I sometimes enjoy embracing that emotion and being alone with my daydreams. I sometimes end up walking alone in a park at night, just staring up at the stars and enjoying the quiet calm and thinking of being with a special someone. I like to give flowers. I try to treat wome...

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... interfered and became a burden on his conscience. This was a burden that he constantly carried with him. As he said, "Thus conscience does make cowards of us all" (3.1.91), he shows us that he is fearful. If he were to act without such deep thought he would not have the burden of being a "coward," with a conscience at that. Being a coward burdened with a conscience ... , Laertes, King Claudius, and Hamlet. All this was the result of "the pale cast of thought" (3.1.93). Hamlet's thoughts and grief make all his obstacles impossible to overcome. His grief becomes a destructive thing that mo...

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... . With another part of my mind I was thinking that this would probably turn out to be one of those things kids go through and that I shouldn't make it seem important by pushing it too hard."(140). This is an example of how the narrator viewed his brother. He not only thought Sonny acted as a kid, but was also too young to be ... was his view on whether Sonny's idea of reality was sound. Still in the first phase, the narrator often presents his view of reality and when Sonny rejects it, the narrator feels Sonny is being unreasonable. For instance, "Well, Sonny,"" I said, gently, "you know...

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... might have told him when he thought he was old enough to understand. But since they became estranged when Charlie was only 16..he never got the chance. This secret has been kept for a good 30 years. The fact that he kept this secret for so long show that Mr. Babbitt truly loved his son Raymond, since he often visited, but I think he ... loved both brothers but acted different towards them. I think Raymond picked up on the loving side of his dad, since he carried a picture around with him, also kindness, since his father did let him drive the Buick. Charlie on the other hand picked up so...

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... from a distance. A poster is supposed to be a "shout" in the wall, it has to attract the attention of the people that goes by. It has to have a simple message that will make people think and analyze the content of the message. A good poster will be much more complex that just a brand or a slogan, it carried a whole meaning. The fist nations' culture, based on respect for nature and ... made out of nature's elements. The art was taken from a website of an artist that made a door with this elements ... reason of the puzzle is that the fist nations' culture is the union of many things. Pe...

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