Stan Thinking About His Reunion With Old Friend

In order to earn her degree in creative writing she needed to complete a novel or set of short stories. She intended to write her memoir but ran into some issues. The emotions about what had happened were still too raw and reliving her memories was too much for her to handle at that time. Instead, she wrote an autobiographical novel. The events that happened in the book all happened to her, but the presence of a fictional character to represent her helped create tolerable distance between her and her experiences. This novel prepared her to write her memoir. Writing her memoir allowed her confront her past in a new way. It required her to revisit her memories as a writer rather than as herself with all her entangled emotions. Examining her life through a different lens allowed her to heal.

How does the diary or journal-entry form affect the emphasis of the narrative? How dependable is Charlie as a narrator as he progresses through his various stages? Discuss Charlie’s capability of providing insight to the other characters.

The structure of Part 2, 4 and 6 was interesting as most of the chapters begin in Jack’s point of view of Stephen which is a narrative technique Faulks has used to show the relationship being conjured and that the lives of these two men are bound. Jack’s admiration for Stephen is further shown on page 372 where he cannot remember what his son, John’s, face so he has ‘taken to drawing Stephen instead’ which also shows his importance in his life. After Michael Weir’s death he and Stephen become closer, as one relationship breaks down another solidifies as they have both lost so many people so they gravitate towards each other. When Stephen and Jack are the only ones to survive a blast underground Jack shows he feels guilty when he says ‘The one supposed to get you back safe’ he feels he has doomed Stephen by escorting him underground. On page 451 their relationship has come so far they abandon the hierarchy and Jack starts to call him Stephen. This links back to Part 2 where ‘they were allowed to speak without deference to the officers’ while they were underground to help cope with how difficult the conditions were, Stephen and Jack are just two human beings trying to survive, the side of the war you are on doesn’t matter underground when you have ‘several hundred thousand tons of France above’ your head. When Jack dies moments after they hear a ‘rescue party’ Stephen feels ‘bitterly alone’ as he was powerless to stop Jack’s death and now has no

Due to the effects of war, Ha and her family were faced with countless challenges, turning their former lives and everything they had known “inside out.” The most significant of such effects can be seen through Ha’s father, who had left home to serve in the Vietnam war and never returned. Ha stated, “Father left home on a navy mission...He was captured...That’s all we know.” (Page 12) Ha lost her father to the war, and despite the brevity in which she had known him; it influenced her greatly. Growing up without her father left her lonely

Tim O’Brien’s writing gives him in outlet to be able to cope with the war. Tim is able to write about traumatic events he goes through during the war. One of these traumatic events Tim O’Brien goes through is when he kills a man, “the man I killed would have been determined to continue his education in mathematics” (122). Tim is able to write and make a narrative around the man he killed. By doing this, it allows him to cope with the killing. Tim’s narrative gives him the ability to

He emphasizes about the bad experience of the war. He explains that the war isn’t what he thought it would be. He explains that he never wanted to be a soldier in the war, because he felt like he was too good to be in the war, and rather be doing his studies instead. However, he had no choice, and he became a soldier like the rest of his friends in his platoon. He uses his experience during the Vietnamese war to help him write short stories about it. He complains how many of the stories that he written has been altered and that is some of the things that happened were not true. The things that were made up, however, were to make the story sound more realistic and that people can relate to. Tim O’Brien stressed about how he would tell his daughter what had happened out in Vietnam, but he finds out that Kathleen does not understand the meaning of the Vietnam War. O’Brien feels guilty of what had happened in the war and that why he decided to write them all on paper, as he is emotionally and mentally unstable because of the many experiences that he had to go through during the

In the beginning of the story, the main character, Gene, revisits Devon High, School and remembers he caused Finny to break his leg. Gene comments that his memory of how hard the stairs were was not as hard as he remembers it. Gene learned that the memory of what was hard in high school was nothing compared to the reality of war.

Throughout the the novel, the reader follows Tim O’Brien during his tour as a soldier in the Vietnam War. The novel follows Tim O’Brien through his tour of Vietnam, and consists of intertwining vignettes of several incidents that occurred while in Vietnam. A handful of these stories that O’Brien retells prove to be untrue, or at least contain untruths. This leaves the reader with an uncertain feeling toward the exactness of this novel, or any novel. O’Brien ultimately asks readers to question what the purpose of his stories or any stories.

soldiers and what they experienced. He tells us that these stories he has written may be true or may not be. In the chapters “How to Tell a True War Story and “The Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” he presents them as true because all of these details and the things he tells us.To make up this stuff is unreal and he tells us in the two stories that if the soldiers who went to Vietnam make it and come back alive they are never the same again.

The plot of this story is based around Tim’s time during the vietnam war. Although that is his bases we know of a particular friend who passed. I believe that although the plot is on war he uses the war to give him the opportunity to work up the courage to write about his friend’s death. Along with deaths of other this book was dedicated to those who did pass and the memories of them. The book serves a purpose to keep the stories alive no furthermore keep the memories and mall those people alive.

Stan Smith, who works for the CIA and is constantly on the alert for terrorist activity, will go to extremes to protect his beloved America from harm. Stan, Stan's wife and teenage children, the Smith household has two unusual members. There's Roger, the sarcastic space alien who rescued Stan from Area 51 who can't leave the house due to that, and therefore, has been reduced to drinking wine and smoking cigarettes, and Klaus, a lascivious, German-speaking goldfish; the result of a CIA experiment gone seriously wrong where the CIA tried to give a fish a German man's brain. Stan's son is a nerdy teenager who tries to be cool.

Stan was on time for his appointment and appeared adequately groomed. He read the chapter about masculine socialization and part of the section struck him with one of his childhood memory.

Yet, still being valedictorian and earning many scholarships remained just in reach. So far Mabel’s life was going as planned, though it was just getting started. Next year she would play ball at college, the scouts had already sent her acceptance letter. She was as excited as was nervous, for this college was her first choice. Everything was perfect, that is until the accident happened. It destroyed all she had going for herself, shattering her dreams, and turned her life upside

A collection of memories from a person’s life, assembled in a book written by themselves, is called a memoir. I have been lucky enough to be able to preview a large collection of memoirs recently, and although I found many that I wanted to read later, I looked at a few in particular, and there was one that really stuck out to me. Some titles I investigated were Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl, Mao’s Last Dancer by Li Cunxin, and The Courage to Compete by Abbey Curran. I have read Boy: Tales of Childhood before, but the others I had not. The Courage to Compete by Abbey Curran looked fairly interesting, so I decided to give it a try. Now, it is important to note that a memoir is different from an autobiography in a few ways. For one thing,

In the music video "Stan" and the story, two narrators are both obsessed with people. Stan is crazy with his idol, Eminem for not giving him a signature. On the other side, Montresor, the narrator, is angry because a guy named Fortunato insulted his family's honor.