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. Throughout the story Lt. Cross talks about Martha and how much he loves her. He uses Martha through the story to quit thinking about what is going on in front of him. He uses Martha as his scapegoat from reality until it finally caused the death of someone in his platoon. .
One of these times he is crawling in a fox hole where he begins to think about Martha, and he is supposed to be worry about finding one of the soldiers and what was happening to them. While he was down in the hole, Ted Lavender was shot in the back of the head coming back from using the bathroom. Lt. Cross was devastated. He blamed it on himself because he was thinking about Martha and not his soldiers. He was always day dreaming about the times him and Martha spent together. .
Finally the death of Lavender was also the death of Martha. He was really upset with the fact that he loved her so much but she did not love him. He also blames her for what happened. He still loved her but hated her as well. He knew he had to put her out of his mind. One way to do it would be getting rid of the pebble she sent him. Also if he did not change how he was leading the platoon they would not make it out alive. He did not want any more blood on his hands that could be prevented. .
The death changed his whole out look on the war. It was like he was a different person. He did not care anymore if his soldiers loved him or liked him, but they would be ready for anything that happened.
Fallen Angels Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, begins with the introduction of an African American 19-year-old boy who lives in Chicago. ... In a matter of 15 minutes darkness has fallen and Peewee and Perry are lost alone and unsure if their troop has any remainders. ...
The book Fallen Angles was a very exciting book the kept me on the tip of my seat just waiting to see what happened next. Although Fallen Angles is one of the longer books that we have read this year in English, it was the most enjoyable book. ... Fallen Angles was a great way for the author to show what kind of life styles that the American soldiers had to live like while fighting in Vietnam. ... Fallen Angels is the first real book that I really enjoyed because it was so enjoyable that I forgot that I was reading it for school and it was so easy to read it was almost like I was watching ...
Milton depicts the angels as being in a state of eternal joy by singing. Nevertheless the angels are not being presented with as much intensity as the devils are. Despite having been cast to hell the fallen angels are still shown to continue on in their old ways as if nothing has happened to them. Milton aptly describes the fallen angels by giving the names that they were worshipped with and a succinct description. Milton employs an epic simile to exaggerate the number of fallen angels and hence the amount of evil. ...
According to Paradise Lost, the fallen angels started out as equals among all of gods other angels. ... After recovering from their defeat, the fallen angels awaken to discover the horrible nature of their new environment. ... To pay God back for what he has done, the fallen angels decide to conquer man and make them their slaves. ... Instead of the traditional way of talking about the fallen angels of Lucifer, Paradise Lost shows them in a light that would make them almost human. The fact that the fallen angels miss the comforts of Heaven is one example of this. ...
Walter Dean Myers wrote Fallen Angels, a novel that realistically recounts the day to day lives of a group of solders in the Vietnam War and the way they cope with reality of it; faced with the horrors of war, each soldier must either reconcile reality with his personal beliefs or cling steadfastly to comfortable illusions of absolute morality. ... The men in Fallen Angels who control their emotions and try to maintain morals as well are the ones who survive; however, Perry, Peewee, and Lobel all cope with the war in different ways just as people do to survive in life. ...
FALLEN ANGELS FCA's:1. ... The name "Warrior Angels" was given by Lieutenant Carroll to American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. When soldiers are killed in action, they become "Fallen Angels." ... They transform into warriors but are still angels on the inside. 2. ...
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The loss of innocence is an evident theme in both Walter Dean Meyers' "Fallen Angels" and Tim O'Brien's "The Man I Killed". ... Comparatively it is evident in both pieces from Myers' with Lieutenant Carroll calling the dead soldiers "angel warriors" because usually young boys were the ones who fought the war; despite the fact that they were quite young and most of them couldn't vote. ... In "Fallen Angels" Myers' characterizes the loss of innocence through the young soldiers differs from O'Brien in "The Man I Kille...
Several of the fallen angels take turns speaking their pieces about which course of action will prove the most prudent. ... The democracy', then, was merely a fazade put on by Satan and Beelzebub to keep the fallen angels loyal by letting them think that they had some power in the decision-making. ... - God inquires of the angels (PL, III). ... There is no talk of vengeance on the fallen at all. ... The fallen angels, in accordance with their characters, are lower to the ground, deceitful and corrupt, while the heavenly host remains erect - a symbol of its uprightness and holiness. ...
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