The things they carried. "The Things they carried-, the renowned author, Tim O'Brien, uses several literary devices to show the spiritual burden on the soldiers in the Vietnam War, by contrasting this burden with the actual physical load they have to carry. ... In The Things They Carried' Tim O'Brien does a tremendous job to show the spiritual and mental crisis of the soldiers through imagery and symbols. ... Tim O'Brien's-The Things They Carried Eating Them Away For young people, the Vietnam War is a thing of the past and they can Only learn about it fr...

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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (by Tim O'Brien) The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. ... One of the significant concepts in The Things They Carried is that of the importance of certain objects or feelings used by the soldiers of Alpha Company to survive the war. Some examples of these items are the picture of the girl carried by Jimmy Cross, the Bible carried by Kiowa, and the stockings carried by Henry Dobbins. ... It makes things vivid. ... They'd bee...

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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (by Tim O'Brien) The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. ... One of the significant concepts in The Things They Carried is that of the importance of certain objects or feelings used by the soldiers of Alpha Company to survive the war. Some examples of these items are the picture of the girl carried by Jimmy Cross, the Bible carried by Kiowa, and the stockings carried by Henry Dobbins. ... It makes things vivid. ... They'd bee...

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Throughout the story, the author gives us examples of what the land was like, the actual things they carried, and the things each one needed to keep them sane. ... " The setting of the story "The Things They Carried", is one of the elements that prove that the Vietnam War can be mentally challenging. ... The story as a whole shows things that the men carry and what they represent. Underneath the physical things they carry, lie the things they mentally carry. ... Each man has a different area of concern pertaining to the things that they carry and it shows through their actions...

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(Salman Rushdie) He tells his audience, in The Things They Carried, a compilation of stories in order to help others understand his whole story about Vietnam. ... Mary Anne first emerges in The Things They Carried within a story called "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Brong-. ... My interpretation of absolute truths includes people, places, things, events, and dialogue. ... "There was a new confidence in her voice, a new authority in the way she carried herself. ... O'Brien's retelling of Rat's story exemplifies the meaning of The Things They Carried. ...

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The story goes through the physical things these men were forced to carry, weapons, food etc. But I think the central theme is the things we carry that we can't dispose of. ... In the story it talks about things that they no longer needed, they just dropped on the trail and walked away. ... Throughout the story, a major topic is about what they carry physically and individual weight of each item they are forced to carry. ... He captured, by stating the physical things they carried and their weights, the weight of the mental things they carried, the conflict in carrying that, and the hidin...

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" Bob Dylan "The Things They Carried" is a story of love during the wartime. Every man in our humanistic society has a role to play, but because of the war in Vietnam, many men were forced to carry what they loved to the battlefield. In reality, the things every man carried into the war were a representation of the role of man in a society and the influence of war on such roles. ... Whenever he looked at the photos, he thought of new things he should've done'' (O'Brien 4). The war therefore disrupted not only the relationship between Martha and Cross, but it also disj...

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The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien, Pub.1990/paperback 2. ... 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. In pg.179 he states "I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening truth" meaning that throughout the novel he mixes in the truth with fabricated scenarios to better explain what happened, at one point he even admits that half the time even he himself who saw and experienced things didn't really know what was going ...

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The soldiers carried loneliness, uncertainty of the truth of war, and the heavy burden of physical and emotion weight; Tim O'Brien uses war related imagery to symbolize the vim of storytelling in his book "The Things They Carried". ... Not all of the objects they carried were physical objects. ... "The Things They Carried.... "The Things They Carried". ... "The Things They Carried....

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Tim O"Brien expressed his feelings in the novel The Things They Carried using a series of war stories. ... Joe thinks that men should be embarrassed for the way that things turned out in the war. ... Being in this situation, Joe learned to appreciate things that he had in life more than others may. He would become energized when he found out that he was able to realize certain things. ... Dalton with the help of O"Brien's ideas and procedures, made up a few things to get people to be able to realize that it was a true war story. ...

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The Things They Carried War is hell. ... 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. ... The war had already done that; they left as boys and returned as men. ... O"Brien could let things go, while Jimmy still held tight to the same people and ideas after the war. ... Although they physically carried different items, their similar items lead to some of the sa...

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I will include things that are used to generalize how a boy or girl should or is expected to behave, dress and or speak. ... Things such as courtesy and respect toward the little princesses were shown. ... She was very poised but behaved irrationally about things that occurred and expected her little posse to follow along. This illustrates what a child can also expect from individuals they meet. ... They were all tested by one of the fairies disguised as an old librarian who needed help carrying some books back to her house. ...

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But they don't realize that things start to fall apart when they least expect it. ... They don't realize that the things which put them up are the things which will pull them down. ... They change many things and many lives in Umuofia. ... It also happens when people have too much of something and can't carry it on their heads. ... Our gods help us bring and maintain this hope to ourselves but we are the ones to carry it. ...

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FIREARMS: ARE THEY KILLERS OR PROTECTORS? ... They would like to see criminals disarmed and they want the random violence to stop. ... By their very nature, the criminals will continue to violate these new laws and continue to carry firearms, regardless of the law. Criminals will continue to find crime much easier knowing that when they attack their victims that they will be most likely be unarmed. ... There are things that can be done to prevent fatalities without infringing on gun ownership. ...

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The Things We Choose Not To See The topic of violence is a recurrent theme in the media today. ... You get into an argument about him being on your turf and things get out of hand. ... It's just a shame things had to end so quickly This is just a random scenario of the way things are on the street, but it's a very true realization of the way people will act when they feel they have no other choice but to survive. ... Try to think a little further into the things you see on the news next time. ... There's a chance that if they were in your position and you were in thei...

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However, in "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien, the ambiguity is displayed with irony to demonstrate that death is one of life's most challenging obstacles. ... "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 Carr...

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The God of Small Things received England's 1997 Booker Prize making Arundhathi Roy the first Indian citizen to ever win the honour. ... Though Estha and Rahel are the central characters of the story Ammu also play a very important role in The God of Small Things. ... When she smiled, her dimples looked as though they hurt. ... Chacko carried her dead body in a dirty bed sheet, laid out on a stretcher and hired a van to transport it to the electric crematorium. ... She is the most unforgettable character in The God of Small Things. ...

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The Things They Carried (1990) was also about the Vietnam War. ... The novel The Things They Carried by Tim O"Brien deals with those same feelings. ... (O"Brien The Things They Carried 19) The story "On the Rainy River" is about being drafted. ... In The Things They Carried, Tim O"Brien used fiction to help him write the stories about Vietnam. ... If I Die in a Combat Zone, like The Things They Carried talks about the brutality of war. ...

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The colors that Whitman shows the reader are clearly the colors of the Union flag and the fact that they "flutter gaily" indicates that it is a happy moment for these soldiers, both because they are returning from battle and because they have won that battle. ... All of these things that Whitman is trying to convey to his reader are because of the values he holds; if he had held different values "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" either would have never been written or it would have had a completely different tone. ... Once Hughes has let it be known that the child is mulatto he gives insight into t...

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They cannot lift and carry a number of things, which would interfere with the productiveness of the regimen. ... In addition, they may also have trouble carrying their wounded, fellow soldiers to a safe shelter (Stanley 4). This may become unsafe during a time of battle when they are trying to carry a wounded soldier to shelter. ... Also, Sergeant Kelly Logan, on her 1997 tour of duty with peacekeeping forces in Bosnia, observed that women tended to move themselves to the sidelines when they had to do things like digging and reinforcing bunkers, and the guys ended up doing most of the phys...

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There is a difference between acting upon something and something being acted upon because if these two things are similar, they should share all the structures of each other. ... Having the second principle that the two things are identical if they share every structure of each other. ... What can we give to gods that they need? ... Do they really need something from us? ... How to beg by praying and ask for things that we want. ...

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In writing about these pyramids, I will discuss what makes them so unique, how they were built, and why they were built. ... They had beliefs of Gods for all different things. ... The soul was thought to stay in the body, therefore if the body was not taken care of in a certain manner, the pharaoh would not be able to carry out his position as the king of the dead. ... They have been discussed and examined for centuries, and today we are still discovering new things. ... Our reasons as to why they are so interesting, our solutions as to how they were built, and our reason as to why they were ...

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He says how many immigrants carry their struggles and fears with them as they come to a new country, and how those certain feelings have to stick with them for the rest of their lives. It is very hard for him to look past all the hardships that they have to face coming to a new country but he says how they must carry and endure all the things in order to succeed in their own new lives. Shahriari states that others carry their burdens with them for a long time "But others will just carry till old age"(Line 8, Shahriari). ... There are many things in this new foreign life that he must ...

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Have they experienced any other social influences? ... This study has taken things such as pre-existing emotional, family and social issues into consideration. ... This suggests that the activities you are asked to carry out in the game affect your state of mind quite effectively. ... Once they win the game, they are allowed to blast their opponents with a loud, unpleasant noise. ... When we are considering extraneous variables, one of the most important things we need to consider is the mastering of the controls of the console the participant is playing on. ...

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By using their microscopes, they found that every living plant and animal they examined was made of cells. ... Some living things, such as bacteria, have only one cell. ... It produces building materials and energy for the cell to carry on its life activities. ... They are organized into groups. ... With all the cells organized in this way, they can efficiently carry on the body's activities. ...

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