The relationship you have with others often has a direct effect on the basis of your very own personal identity. In the essay "On The Rainy River‚" the author Tim O’Brien tells about his experiences and how his relationship with a single person had effected his life so dramatically. It is hard for anyone to rely fully on their own personal experiences when there are so many other people out there with different experiences of their own. Sometimes it take the experiences and knowledge of others to
Premium Morality
Tim O’brien’s the Things They Carried is a collection of fictional war stories based on his own time in vietnam. Each stories features a role in a continuous narrative‚ fractured pieces of one squads experiences in vietnam. O’Brien throughout the novel continuously shits narration‚ from person to person giving the reader insights into each soldier’s perspective. One of the most powerful perspectives came from a character named Tim O’Brien. Throughout the novel his perspective is consistently boyish
Premium Native Americans in the United States United States
Prompt: "You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don’t care for obscenity‚ you don’t care for the truth; and if you don’t care for the truth‚ watch how you vote. Send guys to war‚ they come home talking dirty" (O’Brien 69). Drawing on your reading‚ knowledge‚ and experience‚ write a carefully reasoned essay defending‚ challenging‚ or qualifying O’Brien’s view of the relationship between truth and obscenity. Obscenity in Truth Truth and obscenity have a direct
Premium Fiction English-language films Short story
In The Things They Carried‚ author Tim O’Brien lists various people‚ places‚ and things that would prevent him from leaving his life in the United States. He describes “a hallucination” that is filled with an amalgam of people‚ from old high school buddies and cheerleaders with pompoms to Abraham Lincoln and “Jane Fonda dressed as Barbarella” (O’Brien‚ 58). My own list is not as diverse as O’Brien’s‚ primarily listing all the food that I would miss. However‚ both of our lists do share one thing:
Premium Vietnam War Army Fiction
The Things They Carried Colby Earles In this book the author Tim O’ Brien uses many different little stories to sum of the big picture of war. He focuses in on many different characters‚ stories‚ and their specific feelings to help the reader get an actual feel of what he felt. Which he states on pg. 171 " I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer than happening-truth". While O’ Briens main connection to the title focus’s in on what each soldier physically carried
Premium Fiction World War II Short story
other. Technically‚ since Tim O’Brien is no longer part of the group or company‚ he is no longer the one telling stories but more so the one listening to them. This could also
Premium KILL Murder Thought
In the story “The Man I Killed” the author Tim O’ Brien is the character in the story but the story does not use first person. This is because the story is not revolved around him but revolved on the man he has just killed in the Vietnam war. The character in this story focuses on the dead man’s physicality and the story he has fabricated for him. The character in this story seems to be in shock because he does not speak or stop looking at the dead soldier‚ “Kiowa shook his head. There was some silence
Premium English-language films Narrative Fiction
Julius Nevin 11/13/11 Eaten Alive Some things in life become part of you. People‚ places‚ feelings; you can become so close that you are one. But sometimes‚ these things can consume you; swallow you whole. In Tim O’Brien’s novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ many characters become one with the land of Vietnam. Vietnam consumes characters in different ways‚ but it always results in a character’s unity with the land. Unity is defined as “the state of being one; oneness”. Kiowa physically becomes
Premium Vietnam War Army Fiction
ways. In “On the Rainy River”‚ Tim writes about facing the decision to fight in a war he didn’t believe in or flee to canada. In “How to Tell a True War Story” Tim writes about what he believes a true war story is all about. In “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” Rat Kiley tells a story about a woman who gets sent to Vietnam on request of her boyfriend‚ a medic in the war. Each of these stories has instances where there is no right or wrong answer in different ways. “On the Rainy River” deals with Tim’s
Premium United States World War II Vietnam War
Carried” by Tim O’Brien Summary / Response War! Seems like every where we turn anymore you hear a story about war. The story of “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien takes place during the Vietnam War. Tim O’Brien narrated the story‚ and is writing from first hand experiences. This story gives you a good insight of how soldiers think during such difficult times. Throughout this story you’ll see how love can affect a person’s judgment even during a war. In this story Tim O’Brien and his
Premium Fiction Vietnam War Army