To achieve his purpose the author chooses to tell a different story in every chapter, and every story has poses a theme. In some chapters he tells stories about the war and what he saw, who he killed, what others did, in other chapters he tells of things after the war and even before the war. ... A while later he changes the settings back to his hometown where he tells of what left him to the war, he states, "I would go to the war-I would kill and maybe die- because I was embarrassed not to" how he felt sad about going for such an irrational reason. ... Is it true?... I would tell my...

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He tells us very few stories of his time there, and most of them are of times that were pleasant, but most just very ambiguous. ... So I think this story really goes in the internal conflict that maybe all war vets share. I think this story has an interesting way of showing the character's emotions as well, and how they are forced to deal with them, and process the situations they are put into. ... But it's not a mannered simplicity, the kind that after a while devolves into self-parody; it's the oh-so-powerful simplicity of the true" [ CITATION Joh10 l 1033 ]. And I think...

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He will say that a war story can't be believed, but then will tell a story that will make it seem as though it can be believed. By doing this the reader is left wondering the question of how to tell a true war story. This issue is addressed in the chapter "How to Tell a True War Story." ... I believe that Johnny Got His Gun in fact should be considered a true war story. ... I believe that these books are very closely related in that they both tell a true war story, although it wasn't directly about war....

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Tim O"Brien, the author, shows how the characters go through the adversities of war. ... He was the true audience. ... He explains in the novel that Bowker wants to tell his story to anyone. He thinks of the ways he could tell it to his dad, but he does not know how. ... "How"d you like to hear about the war?" ...

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Lone Survivor is a book based on a true story. The story begins in the year 2005, just a few years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City. ... The beginning starts off by portraying how torturous and intense the training is for the Navy SEALs. ... According to the book, he was and is a brave and true Navy SEAL. ... Sadly, three of those heroes died in combat serving their country, but one survived to tell the tale. ...

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In Nathan Englander's, "Free Fruit for Young Widows," and Tim O'Brien's, "How to Tell a True War Story," one common theme is trauma. ... In these two stories, Professor Tendler ("Free Fruit for Young Widows") and Rat Kiley ("How to Tell a True War Story"), have both gone through traumatizing experiences and have both had tough times overcoming those moments. ... In Tim O'Brien's, "How to Tell a True War Story," Rat Kiley was a young soldier in a situation no one would wish on their worst enemy. ... How else would a coup...

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He experienced two world wars. ... On the whole, the story can be divided into parts. ... The writer does not tell us the name of the character he is talking about. ... "How brave and ferocious Joe DiMaggio is!" ... The old man is worthy of the title "true winner" because "A true winner, should be the perfect combination of self-confidence and steadfastness." ...

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The narrator of the story, Tim O'Brien, repeatedly recounts memories of the war, each with an added detail or an object that carried a significant amount of weight that makes the story seem more factual than what it seems. ... The objects they carried were true and false, imaginary and existing, and uncertain and certain. ... The power of salvation from stories is derived from forgiveness, and to tell a story of someone that is to employ good feelings and thoughts of them. ... O' Brien grabs hold of the reader, raising them up with his powerful hand and tells his stories of the thing...

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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. ... What he is mostly interested in is assisting our comprehension of what Vietnam War means and how its meaning directly affected the story O'Brien calls his life. ... She is now a being with no inhibitions under the spell of a larger entity, her true self. ... What he is mostly interested in is assisting our comprehension of what Vietnam War means and how its meaning directly affected the story O'Brien calls his life. ... No matter how accurate or trut...

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When Vonnegut places himself inside the book, particularly in the first chapter, the reader is told that the all the events of the story are true, more or less, and that Vonnegut experienced the Dresden bombings firsthand. ... He tells us about how the cattle have awakened Jesus, yet he does not cry about it. ... Perhaps the greatest ironic incident is when the model English soldiers tell the war-torn Americans that they needn't worry about bombs or other aspects of war while they are in Dresden. ... The alien tells him how every character in the novel has their "ups and downs". ... A...

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A weak soldier in World War II, Billy learns how to time travel, to the past and future, although has no control of when or where these travels will occur or take him. ... In the first chapter, Vonnegut is the narrator and tells the story through a 1st person point of view. ... With an almost autobiographical character, Vonnegut tells the tale that he so desperately wanted to tell to the American people. ... The second chapter starts the fictional story Vonnegut stirs up to tell of the bombing without using a non-fiction, first person point-of-view. ... At this point, Billy tells the reader...

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Contemporary Navajo singer Andrew Natonabah, for example speaks of how "the stories, the songs, and the prayers come together to form a literature," (Ruoff 2). ... These stories told Natives how to live their daily life and how to treat others. The parents play a major part in Native American writing, showed in the poem "A story of How a Wall Stand", written by Simon Ortiz... " He tells me those things ," (Niatum 140). ... One example is the narrative of Black Elk called Wasichus in the Hills; it tells the story of a Sioux holly man (Riley 97-106). ...

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Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" is a story of a soldier who returns from World War I as a transformed person. ... Hemingway fell into this norm of lying about war experience, which eventually made him sick of disgust: the deception he practiced at home uncomfortably remind him of the lies he and others have been forced to tell in order to sensationalize for home consumption the dull reality of war (Mayers, 55). ... As pointed out by Defalco, "He is forced to tell lies about his war experience in order to gain the approval of his associates" (140). Similar po...

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Composition 1023 "Ernest Hemingway: How His Novels Tell of His Real Life Story" Ernest Hemingway, who was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, was legend in his own time, and is now a legend in our time. Hemingway was a rugged man in the true sense, and his writings show this. ... An overview of The Sun Also Rises describes Barnes as having "a calculated view of the events in the story and is sure to relate, minutia, such as how much things cost, who owes whom, how to bait the hook, and what is in the packed lunch" (Literature Resource Center 5). ... His writing often reflects one of his bel...

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Scarlett's lifestyle before the war left her unprepared for the responsibilities to come and even though she was selfish, the tragedies in Scarlett's life shaped her character into the woman she would become after the Civil War. ... Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, Gone With the Wind tells the tale of a willful and spoiled Southern Belle and the struggles she endures as she comes to terms with the end of life as she knows it; she learns to survive in her new reality. ... In true Scarlett fashion, she uses her mother's prized drapes as material for a dress so s...

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Toward the end of World War II, Hemingway participated in some of the bloodiest fighting of the war, the invasion of Normandy. ... It tells the bittersweet story of Richard Cantwell, a former brigadier general who has been demoted to colonel after a disastrous battle, which had been blamed on him. ... The Old Man and the Sea, tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago, who after going eighty-six days of not catching anything finally catches a giant marlin. ... How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well writ...

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The Underdogs is a story that tells of the Mexican Revolution through the eyes of a leader that was thrown into his position not by choice. ... Mariano Azuela in this book writes in a style that makes for very simple reading and tells a great story of the Mexican Revolution at the same time. Azuela was able to create the common Mexican man and tell the story using that perspective. ... The story is told well by Azuela and in a way that he never lets you forget that there is a war going on. ... That is a true testament for what people thought of the revolution like what Valderrama said: "Vi...

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The movie is a family's story about what they went through during the American Revolution. ... A few moths later Gabriel writes his younger brother Thomas and tells him what is going on in the war. ... At the very end of the movie it very briefly talks about how Yorktown was won back and how Cornwallis was ashamed and would not come out and shake hands to symbolize the war was over. ... The movie started in almost the middle of the war. ... This movie helped me learn more about the struggles that people went through during the American revolution it also taught me how hard it is losin...

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In chapter one, Kurt Vonnegut really shows his human side and even goes out to prove how he is human. Then the Tralfamadorians teach us how to feel no unhappiness. ... "Shortly before my father died, he said to me, 'You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.'... It tells us that we have to mourn the past in order to move forward. ... Through Slaughterhouse Five he is able to teach us the true meaning of "so it goes....

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These stories included tales of war, the history of their culture, and religious views and practices. ... It has been proven that some of the tales were not true while archeological and historical studies have shown that some of the stories were in fact, true. ... The story of "Anansi and the Sky God", originating in West Africa, tells of a spider named "Anansi" who spun a web that reached the sky. ... (Jefferies, 1998, pg. 73) How is it that these stories collaborated so closely? ... "It is a pity, but there are people who say fairy tales are not true. ...

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A Wallflowers Story "When you become a teen, it's like you get a second chance to remake your life. ... In Charlie's writings, he tells how he see the fictitious and superficial world he lives in. ... World War II had ended and soldiers came home to start the next baby boom. ... And so by doing what he believed what his "friends" wanted to hear he became more like his friends and less of his true 48157 4 self. ... The first son saw how alcohol turned his father into a monster and the second son became a monster, such experiences can teaches how not become what we de...

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The interesting thing about this novel is how much it resembles his own life. ... Vonnegut used this novel to tell, in a creative way, the details of his own life during this time. ... This is not true in some cases, however. ... This story is also the closest in resemblance to Vonnegut's own experiences in life and in World War 2. ... This is true for many writers, however. ...

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Vonnegut was asked by an old war buddy's wife not to glamorize war (pgs. 14-15), which he successfully complied with. Throw in a chronologically challenged story line, a few aliens, and time-travel, and you've got yourself a book that becomes more about its oddities than the spoils of war. ... Billy, true to character, doesn't respond. ... Billy didn't know how to cope with the juxtaposition of part 1 of his life (war time) and part 2 of his life (suburb time). ... _php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0> Morais, Betsy. ...

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Vonnegut was asked by an old war buddy's wife not to glamorize war (pgs. 14-15), which he successfully complied with. Throw in a chronologically challenged story line, a few aliens, and time-travel, and you've got yourself a book that becomes more about its oddities than the spoils of war. ... Billy, true to character, doesn't respond. ... Billy didn't know how to cope with the juxtaposition of part 1 of his life (war time) and part 2 of his life (suburb time). ... _php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0> Morais, Betsy. ...

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When the audience analyzes the story from Homer's point of view, the reader finds that Homer admired characters who exhibit bravery, loyalty and nobility of heart. Throughout the story, the main character, Hector, demonstrates all of these virtues. ... In Book 3, Homer touches on how adamant Hector is about stopping the war in order to reduce the number of casualties that would occur, not only for the Trojans, but also for the Greeks. ... Homer gives Hector a high stature, illustrating how Hector's impressive abilities far outweigh those of any other Trojan warrior. ... He shouts the...

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