In "The Things They Carried" by Tim O"Brien, the most important character is a Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. Throughout the story Lieutenant Cross deals with many different problems mentally and physically that hinders him to do his job as a leader. He also talks about a girl back home, whose name is Martha, which he is in love with. Although Lieutenant Cross deals with many different problems, the biggest problem he deals with is his inability to focus on the task at hand which is the war. The greatest problem he deals with in the story is his own mind. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

you would intimate that her spirit has taken the post of ministering angel, and guards the fortunes of Wuthering Heights, even when her body is gone. ... He had fallen in love with a "real goddess," but when she returned his affection he acted so coldly she "persuaded her mamma to decamp." ...

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Having fallen in love with Daisy in 1917, prior to leaving to fight in World War I, he does everything he can to recreate the love he and Daisy had shared. ... In the first verse, clouds assume properties of fantasy and the playful way a child sees them: "Rows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I've looked at clouds that way" Through the use of metaphorical comparisons to 'angel hair' 'ice cream castles' and 'feather canyons', Mitchell creates a utopian illusion that emphasizes the delicacy an...

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• Grade Level: High School