On The Things They Carried Rhetorical Analysis
On The Things They Carried Among all of the books I have read, and I have read a lot of books, I believe this one is the most intriguing when it comes to composition. Tim O'Brien, the author, has done what is rare in literature and composed a fictionalized autobiography. He brings together thoughts, ideas, emotions, and reality in order to create his own safe and satisfying reality. He tackles reader and author's perspective and creates a work that deserves to be what The Milwaukee Journal calls “...so powerful it steals your breath”.
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the night …show more content…
Above, O'Brien expresses to the reader that he wants you to feel what he felt. He wants others to understand what happened to him. The author writes for the reader. He also expresses above that story-truth is truer that happening-truth. Story-truth “makes things present”. In the authors words, it allows him to look at things he never looked at. He can attach faces to grief, love, pity and God. He can be brave and he can make himself feel again. In, the end, it allows the author to go back and experience things in a different way that he might not have necessarily wanted to experience again. The author's own perspective and interpretation of his own life is very important also. Without the authors on view on his life, the book would no longer be an autobiography/memoir. It would most likely be based on what others have told him about his life which would cause it to ride the line between fiction and non-fiction. It's all about perspective and interpretation in The Things They Carried. In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien shares some of his chilling experiences in the Vietnam War using a rather unconventional form. He writes war stories and most of the ones in this Knight
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the night …show more content…
Above, O'Brien expresses to the reader that he wants you to feel what he felt. He wants others to understand what happened to him. The author writes for the reader. He also expresses above that story-truth is truer that happening-truth. Story-truth “makes things present”. In the authors words, it allows him to look at things he never looked at. He can attach faces to grief, love, pity and God. He can be brave and he can make himself feel again. In, the end, it allows the author to go back and experience things in a different way that he might not have necessarily wanted to experience again. The author's own perspective and interpretation of his own life is very important also. Without the authors on view on his life, the book would no longer be an autobiography/memoir. It would most likely be based on what others have told him about his life which would cause it to ride the line between fiction and non-fiction. It's all about perspective and interpretation in The Things They Carried. In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien shares some of his chilling experiences in the Vietnam War using a rather unconventional form. He writes war stories and most of the ones in this Knight