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Tim O'Brien's, "The Things They Carried", 2002.
This paper discusses the different themes found in Tim O'Brien's book, "The Things They Carried."
2,155 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 35.95
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This paper examines Tim O'Brien's, "The Things They Carried," which is a compilation of several short stories or vignettes, about the experiences of the men who fought in the Vietnam War. The author uses commentary from two other literary sources who have analyzed the materials that were covered in O'Brien's book. The author discusses how O'Brien's background influenced the structure and content of the book. Some of the themes found in the different stories include courage, loneliness and memories and how the men carry all of these, along with their supplies, with them througout the war. This writer feels that it was the stories and the intimacy of the sharing of these feelings that helped many of these men survive the war, relatively intact.
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"Characterization is one of the most important parts of this novel, and O'Brien manages to create vivid characters that are sympathetic and very real at the same time. How can a man named Rat be sympathetic? It is partly because of the thread of storytelling that is the backbone of the novel. "For Rat Kiley. . . facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe" (O'Brien 101). Much of O'Brien's novel reads like the folktales of old, passed down orally from generation to generation. Rat Kiley is clearly a born storyteller, for he makes his listeners think and think hard while he spins his tales."
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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", 2008.
This paper discusses Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" about the reality of combat in Vietnam.
825 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 15.95
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This paper explains that, in his National Book Award winning novel "The Things They Carried", Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien conveyed the reality of the war by telling his readers in plainspoken language what it feels like to be afraid, to kill and to see friends die in a useless war ten-thousand miles away from home. The author points outs that O'Brien's literary approach of conveying the realism of violent death in combat through emotion is very effective. The paper relates that this style has far more power and meaning than simply describing battles. The author underscores that O'Brien's use of fear, the trauma killing inflicts and the grief soldiers feel for lost comrades are the three primary reasons why this book has been acclaimed as one of the most realistic novels about the Vietnam War ever written.
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"This passage conveys much more about the pervasive weight of fear and the awful finality of death than many war novelists have communicated in entire chapters, or even in entire novels. O'Brien (1999) describes his friend's sudden death on a warm, sunny April morning with compassionate finality and an authoritative essence that is eloquent in its very simplicity. "He was dead weight," O'Brien writes of Ted Lavender, a scared young soldier gone from this world in the twinkling of an eye."
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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", 2004.
This paper reviews Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", a novel that depicts the horrors of fighting in the Vietnam War.
2,600 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 40.95
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This paper explains that Tim O'Brien's novel, "The Things They Carried",
illustrates that the greatest weight soldiers bear comes from nothing they can physically carry, but rather their emotions, grief, terror, and love. The author points out that O'Brien utilizes the composite novel form, which allows him to play with multiple settings, characters, the theme of storytelling, and even allusiveness, in a way that most fully incorporates the whole of humanity into his story. The paper relates that, through his unique narration, stylistic technique, and attention to detail, O'Brien captures the psychological aspects of war.
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"The psychological burden of war goes far beyond that of simply fighting. The struggle of staying alive was always emphasized after encountering a battle for which they found themselves alive. "For the most part they carried themselves with poise, a kind of dignity. Now and then there were times of panic, when they squealed or wanted to squeal but couldn't" (19). The fear of losing life was compounded by the idea of being a brave and courageous soldier. The fact of surviving always brought a sense of life to the soldiers. The psychological pressure of fighting and surviving was always followed with a sense of reassembling themselves as soldiers. O'Brien states that for the most part, the soldiers were "afraid of dying but they were even more afraid to show it" (20). Coping with the pressure of war was discovered by way of telling jokes and creating a "hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness" (20). Their encounters with death were instances where "irony was mixed with tragedy" (20). These statements illustrate how the soldiers did their best to cope with the psychological pressure of the war."
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Tim O'Brien, 2006.
A review of Tim O'Brien's works on Vietnam.
2,501 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 39.95
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This paper mainly gives a personal perspective of Tim O'Brien, the author, focusing on his experiences in Vietnam. It discusses the shift in the tone of war writing, its views on combat and the outlook on war. It cites many of O'Brien's works to qualify this point. The paper manages to highlight that war literature is not to view the experiences of war only in historical and personal terms, but also to reflect the entire tension that was going on between the individual and the historical situation.
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"Tim O'Brien was not very happy that American conscience had been able to digest the events of Vietnam very well and the country had got back to a situation of being "normal". On his side, he had gone to the extent of saying that he wished that the country was a little more troubled. When the society in the country is normal, it means that the history has been removed from the public conscience, and also changed human nature where these events will no longer raise public protests. In the stories of war, there are the dreams and lives of individuals, fighting as soldiers, and are not only a set of data. This is important to note. Since the point is only to talk about the event without highlighting the results, is it not more difficult to raise public interest?"
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Tim O'Brien, 2004.
A review of the literary works written by Tim O'Brien.
1,550 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 26.95
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This paper begins with a brief history of Tim O'Brien's life and background before he fought in the war in Vietnam. The writer then looks at the process that led O'Brien to become a writer from his time in Vietnam to his university years at Harvard. The paper looks at the recurring themes evident not only in "If I Die in a Combat Zone", but his other novels as well.
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"Fear and fears is also one of the center points of the novel. Obviously, in wars and in the Vietnam War in particular, the utmost fear is the fear of dying. However, surprisingly or not, the fear of dying seems to be occasionally surpassed by other fears. One of them is the fear of getting lost at night. As O'Brien puts it, this fear refers to the terrible sensation of "of becoming detached from the others, of spending the night alone in that frightening and haunted countryside" . This description of the fear of getting lost draws an interesting angle on what collectivity is in a war. Practically, you begin to refuse your existence as an individual and begin to exist as a group, because, as the quote underlines, it is the fact of being separated from the others that is most traumatizing in getting lost."
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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", 2006.
An analysis of Tim O'Brien's short story about soldiers in the Vietnam War, "The Things They Carried".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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This paper looks closely at the short story by Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried". The work selects as its thesis the items which were carried, and what they symbolize. The paper also comments upon what it means to not have items of value or to burn and give up the burdens which were first brought to war. It concludes that these items saved the soldiers and bring them humanity.
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"Tim O'Brien's powerful words in the short story "The Things They Carried", the title and first chapter in his collection of work concerning soldiers during the Vietnam War, connect to readers as they remind us of burdens being carried--physical, emotional and spiritual. As the soldiers gain personality via their possessions--both those they carry as well as those they leave behind--we come to envision these men as the 'everyman,' those who go off to war and symbolize a country. As the images of these burdens gain a solid presence in the story, they represent the lives and hopes of each soldier, even as they are cast away by the principle character in the tale, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. Near the first lines of the story, O'Brien introduces the readers to the theme of the 'carried,' or burdens. Each soldier is made unique by..."
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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", 2005.
A paper on Tim O'Brien's work about the Vietnam War, "The Things They Carried".
1,458 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 0 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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This paper describes the main character in the O'Brien's book about a young man who was drafted into the the war with Vietnam. The paper describes the man's conflicting emotions and turmoil he feels about the war.
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"On June 17, 1968, Tim O'Brien received his draft notice. Many emotions must have erupted inside of him that day and in the following months to come. He said, "I remember the rage in my stomach. Later it burned down to a smoldering self-pity, then to numbness." In "On the Rainy River" O'Brien brings to life many places and characters to convey his feelings about his draft notice and the war in Vietnam. Elroy Berdahl and the Armour Meat Packing Plant for example brings to life and express to the readers his conflicting emotions about the war in Vietnam. Many feelings, such as desperation, rage, and fear come to the surface. "The emotions went from outrage to terror to bewilderment to guilt to sorrow and then back again to outrage.""
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Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", 2004.
Analysis of the theme of truth in O'Brien's fictional novel, "The Things They Carried".
1,174 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper examines the theme of truth and the lack of truth in Tim O'Brien's fictional story about the Vietnam war. The paper looks at the message, delivered in O'Brien's story, that we should never trust what the government tells us about the war because no one knows for sure what really happened. To further illustrate the truth theme, the paper contrasts O'Brien's approach to truth depiction with the approach of Oliver Stone in "Platoon". While acknowledging that there are similarities in both authors' approach to truth depiction, the paper points out that there are significant differences too.
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"In most war stories, the main purpose of authors and directors is to represent the truth by building their works on universally known facts. Most of them try to stick with facts to lend more credibility to their fictional work. They would get inspiration from some real events and then mould them creatively to add their own views and ideologies. However in Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried', the author has no such objective in mind. Instead he urges his readers to question the so-called truth that authorities give us. We are repeatedly reminded of the fact that this work is pure fiction that nothing is real and not a single event mentioned in the story ever took place in reality. The words 'real' and 'really' have been used frequently in the story to convince the readers of the authenticity of the details of every version and they are then quickly called into question little later."
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Tim O'Brien, 2004.
A biographical paper on the American author of "The Things They Carried".
1,357 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 23.95
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This paper presents a short biography of the author, Tim O'Brien. It discusses his life and some of his works, which include "The Things They Carried" and "July, July." The paper shows that many of his experiences in the Vietnam War contributed to his writing.
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"One of O'Brien's recently celebrated achievements has been his writing in respect to female characters. Previously focusing on the male voice, O'Brien's most recent novel, July, July, has a large cast with many female characters. "These people's stories are very American. I mean, they're not particularly exotic stories. But they are riveting, and for a novelist who has not always written with a lot of female voices, [there are] some amazing ones here" (Siegel). Even for female characters, O'Brien pulls from his own experiences, creating a sense of believability for them, as well as a sense of realism for the entire story. A male author writing about issues such as breast cancer and dealing husbands may at first seem an unreliable source, but his characters are inspired by his own feelings (Siegal)."
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O'Brien:" In the Lake of the Woods", 1994.
Reviews Tim O'Brien's novel IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS, in which O'Brien uses the Vietnam War to represent the theme of loss & compounds it by examining the personal losses of one of the War's veterans.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, £ 16.95
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"As in life, loss is represented in several ways in the novel In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien. This novel shows the way the Vietnam War still holds a grip on the American psyche and some of the reasons why this is so. The war itself represents a theme of loss for many, since it was the only war the United States could be said to have "lost," though some have tried to put a different spin on the withdrawal of troops from that country. The primary loss in the book, however, is personal loss, and the war becomes an instance to detail the loss one man experiences when his image of himself is shattered and when he loses his sense of right and wrong, his sense of personal virtue, and is left with a burning need to atone for something for which he does not believe atonement is possible. Because of this unresolved need within him, he loses much more over the years."
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Joseph O'Brien's "Boss of the Bosses:The Fall of the Godfather", 2002.
Reviews Joseph O'Brien's account of Paul Castellano's life in the "Boss of the Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather".
1,442 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 0 sources, MLA, £ 24.95
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This paper discusses O'Brien's historical account of the mafia godfather Paul Castellano. It explores the focus of the book and O'Brien's motives and messages in the book. This paper also reviews the information provided about the Gambino family and O'Brien's methods of obtaining the information.
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"Because of the sensitive nature of some classified information that surfaced during the investigation, O'Brien had to curb his writing style to meet legal approval. He and Kurins had developed a relationship with Castellano while they were brining about his downfall. At one point O'Brien states, "a relationship developed between us. We were friends. It's hard to believe that." O'Brien also let's his readers know that Castellano was not an "irrational, ruthless boss" but rather a businessman. And that's one of the key points that he drives home in the book. Castellano was even against drug trafficking, which O'Brien assumes to be one of the reasons why he was gunned down. In many resects, he did not fit the image of a powerful Mafia don. O'Brien began to feel a grudging sympathy for this proud man, who tried to overcome the pressures he faced from rival mobsters."
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Naval Fiction of Patrick O'Brien, 2005.
A paper on the literary genius of nautical-fiction writer Patrick O'Brien.
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 41.95
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This paper is a discussion on Patrick O'Brien, the literary genius of nautical-fiction who died in 2000. It looks at elements of O'Brien's naval fiction and the 21 Aubry/Maturin novels including characterization, plot and style. .
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Dr. Tim Berners-Lee, 2007.
This paper discusses Dr. Tim Berners-Lee, the primary architect of the World Wide Web.
1,346 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 23.95
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The paper relates that Tim Berners-Lee is credited with inventing the interfacing and programming standards that have together revolutionized the World Wide Web. The paper looks at Tim Berners-Lee's education, work experiences and many awards. The paper discusses how he worked to make the web browser, server, client and protocols free for everyone to use. The paper describes him as one of the most celebrated and awarded scientists of this age.
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"In conjunction with his colleagues at CERN, Europe's foremost scientific research center, Tim Berners-Lee developed and first introduced a text-based Web browser in 1991, choosing to make the browser public-domain technology as rapidly as possible despite many lucrative offers to sell his patents. He was invited in 1994 to join MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science as Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, a leadership role he continues in today. He is one of the most celebrated and awarded scientists of this age, and is most respected for his passionate pursuit of keeping Web technologies royalty-free, so as to keep the Internet a public resource for anyone who wants to access and use it."
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Tim Winton's "Dirt Music", 2005.
Examines the relationships in the novel, "Dirt Music," by Tim Winton.
1,329 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, £ 23.95
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An oddly intriguing tale of loss and recovery, Tim Winton's "Dirt Music" focuses on an unlikely triangle among a myriad of colorful characters set against the hauntingly beautiful milieu of Western Australia. This paper shows how Winton smoothly weaves a rough assemblage of highly individual characters together, united and by the common factor of keen and painful grief. Many of the relationships formed between the major characters are primarily aimed at dealing with the loss of someone or something close to them. The paper shows that, despite the differing approaches to their problems, each of Winton's characters' lives revolves around their loss and their ways of coping.
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"The loss of his leg in an accident involving a "dickhead in his Range Rover" has left a permanent stain on Rusty's character; he is bitter with self-pity and mingles his ideas of revenge with frequent morphine injections. A constant "contented" state, as Lu politely puts it, is Rusty's alternative to Bess's jarring poetic outbursts and a far less dignified approach to loss (or impending loss as is Bess's case) than either Beaver or Jim and inspire little empathy from the reader. Winton's intention it appears is to contrast the different reactions to the solitude of death, placing the 'good' characters in a more pleasing light and creating a better understanding of their actions as well as creating a string of memorable characters with which he peppers Lu's journey Coronation Gulf."
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