The Things They Carried War is hell. ... Every character carried items specific to their rank, necessity, mission, superstition, background, girlfriends, and many other factors. In The Things They Carried, Tim O"Brien and Jimmy Cross carried many of the same items for survival and sanity, but their personal items and those hidden deep within the thought and consciousness separate the two soldiers and the men that actually returned from the war. ... Not only does he carry the actual shoes but also the guilt and torment of being the cause of his friend's death. ... Although they ph...

• Word Count: 1691
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• Grade Level: High School

"The Things They Carried," by Tim O'Brien, is about struggles, pain and sadness of war. ... About the things they carried O'Brien uses creative details as information about the soldiers.  ... He describes the things soldiers carry with them to show not only the exact meaning of what they carried but also symbolically the burdens that they had emotionally. ... The ambiguity of "The Things They Carried" is displayed with irony, for the moral of such war stories is that there is no moral at all. ... The main goal of Tim O'Brien from "The Things They Carried" story...

• Word Count: 1752
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There is so much more that outsiders do not see between two people, including how sometimes one of the outsiders could actually be a person in that relationship. ... I found it a little weird that they called the main character by her last name and with a "Mrs" title, but her sister was referred to only by her first name. ... Mallard may be older than her sister, or that her sister is not married, because using a Mrs. or Mr. is usually used by someone younger to show respect to an older person, but this still does not explain why the narrator does not refer to Mrs. Mallard by her first name,...

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The authors of the various scriptures do not appear to consider such actions a great mortal sin; they seem to regard them as straightforward personal decisions. ... Therefore, Suicide does not violate God's plan. ... Hume argues that there is no relevant difference between these sorts of things, which cause great changes in the natural order of things, and a person taking his own life, which could be seen as being a very small thing in the natural order. ... He differs in this principle from other philosophies that hold that suffering can be character building. ... Hume argues from...

• Word Count: 2173
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The story is broken into 5 different parts, told in first person, and although the narrator is not the main character, he lends significant importance to the symbolism that takes place throughout the tale. ... In the fifth paragraph he describes himself as "a young and sick boy with rheumatism" (23), and then in the next sentence depicts her carrying a heavy pack on her back- one that he could probably not manage on his own. ... It is in this part of the story that the narrator's understanding of the old woman is changed. ... The butcher that she visits in town does not understand her ...

• Word Count: 1944
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School