How Does Tim O Brien Use Of Conceit

Mary Anne adjusted to the life in Vietnam, as did the soldiers that were there, and as time progressed she began to enjoy or get a thrill out of being in Vietnam. "I mean when we first got here-all of us- we were real young and innocent, full of romantic bullshit, but we learned pretty damn quick. And so did Mary Anne,"(97). The learning curve in war is quickened by the fact that it is a matter of life or death when you are working in a war, and it did not matter who you were the you quickly learned how to operate in a battle field. Mary Anne did not fit in a first and did not know or understand her role in the war, and just like the fresh soldiers coming from America did know or understand their role in the war. As the soldiers, as well as Mary Anne, begin to realize the realities of the war they move their focus away from their homes in America and begin to focus on the work that needed to be accomplished in Vietnam. The physical changes that occur to Mary Anne as she begins to be assimilated into the Vietnam War are like night and day. She came as your typical American girl, but then becomes a fighting soldier looking and anticipating ugly war

Throughout The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien it is difficult to separate what is fictitious, and what is true. During the entire work there are two different “truths”, which are “story truth” and “happening truth”. “Happening truth” is the actual events that happen, and is the foundation or time line on which the story is built on. “Story truth” is the molding or re-shaping of the “happening truth” that allows the story to be believable and enjoyable. It is not easy to distinguish “happening truth” from “story truth”, and at times during the novel O’brien reveals which is which. On the other hand, when the reader is blind to

The story “In the Field” by Tim O’Brien, is about a platoon of eighteen soldiers in the Vietnam war who are searching a shit field looking for a dead solider by the name of Kiowa. Throughout the story we as readers can see that the author uses the thoughts and actions of the soldiers to show that the Vietnam war was an unnecessary war. In addition, Tim O’Brien uses their thoughts to also show how soldiers felt about fighting the Vietnam War.

Going back to the Vietnam War and its effect on Mary Anne. At this point, it can be seen that Mary Anne has completely crossed over. She has a necklace of human tongues, which is crazy weird. However, Mary Anne is still wearing her culottes and her pink sweater, the very pieces of clothing that made her appear so American at the beginning of the story. The reason for Mary Anne’s change is not because of the Vietnamese or even Vietnam, even though it appeared to be at the beginning. It's the war itself. The war is half-Vietnamese and half-American. A example that shows Mary Anne going through her change is in the quote, "Mary Anne made you think about those girls back home, how clean and innocent they all are, how they'll never

With this part of the story, O’Brien is able to inject the theme of shame motivating the characters in the book. This chapter is about how the author, who is also the narrator, is drafted for the war. He runs away to the border between Canada and the United States, he stays in a motel with an old man for about a week and finds that he should go to war for his country. In the beginning it was about shame, he didn’t want to look like a coward because in truth he was scared. He was afraid to face the pressures of war, the humiliation and the fact of losing “everything”. This man was an average person who lived an average life with no problems, until he got the notice about the war, which caused the shame and fear of being seen as a bad person to come out.

Tim O’Brien’s book, The Things They Carried, is about a platoon of soldiers fighting in the Vietnam war and the life of the alpha company. This book also talks about the experiences each soldier has during the war. This war created many lasting physiological and emotional effects on the soldiers that is shown throughout the novel in the various stories told by O’Brien. O’Brien’ purpose is that the Vietnam War created lasting emotional and physiological effects on the soldiers. My purpose is to explain how O’Brien effectively uses repetition and description to support his purpose.

This passage is very significant to the reality of the soldiers in the Vietnam War and brings to life the setting of the entire novel. The soldiers were primarily teenagers and young men in their early twenties who had not yet had the chance to experience life. They soon had found themselves in the midst of an intense war with nothing but uncertainty and fear. They hated it and they loved the fear and adrenaline that ran through their skin and bones. It

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. The book is filled with stories about the men of Alpha Company and their lives in Vietnam and afterwards back in the United States. O’Brien captures the reader with graphic descriptions of the war that make one feel as if they were in Vietnam. The characters are unique and the reader feels sadness and compassion for them by the end of the novel. To O’Brien the novel is not only a compilation of stories, but also a release of the fears, sadness, and anger that he has felt because of the Vietnam War.

Tim O’Brien, in his novel, The Things They Carried, includes the chapter “Notes” in order to clarify what occurred the night Kiowa died. O’Brien uses pathos to appeal to emotions in order to create a compassionate tone to influence the way the reader perceives the Kiowa died. At the end of the chapter, O’Brien reveals that “Norman did not freeze up or lose the Silver Star for valor…That part of the story is my own” (O’Brien 154); when explaining the event in the previous chapter, he uses Norman as a character to replace Tim, the one actually with Kiowa the night he died. The chapter does not initially state that Tim froze and could not save Kiowa, and O’Brien does this to attempt to remove some of Tim’s guilt and shift the blame; telling the

In “The Things They Carried” Tim O’Brien uses this story as a coping mechanism; to tell part of his stories and others that are fiction from the Vietnamese War. This is shown by using a fictions character’s voice, deeper meaning in what soldier’s carried, motivation in decision making, telling a war story, becoming a new person and the outcome of a war in one person. Tim O’ Brien uses a psychological approach to tell his sorrows, and some happiness from his stories from the war. Each part, each story is supposed to represent a deeper meaning on how O’Brien dealt, and will deal with his past. In war, a way to

There are many levels of truth in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. This novel deals with story-telling as an act of communication and therapy, rather than a mere recital of fact. In the telling of war stories, and instruction in their telling, O'Brien shows that truth is unimportant in communicating human emotion through stories.

Mary Anne was a young sweet innocent girl unaffected by the war at first. The speaker

This description shows just how much she has changed. The way that she describes being alone in the mountains is like nothing she’s ever said before. And yet, she claims that the feeling is something that helps her to discover herself, she knows exactly who she is when she’s there. Mary Anne says that she feels close to her own body, she feels whole and complete in the wilds of Vietnam. She describes herself as “burning away into nothing” with this feeling. Brimming with electricity, even, she feels alive when she’s alone in the wilds. The way Mary Anne describes her feelings for herself after being in Vietnam for months represents her own previous insecurities and pressures being wiped away and replaced with freedom. Mary Anne is tetherless in Vietnam, free to do whatever she pleases, and she would not let Fossie stop her from that, no matter how he felt. After this confrontation, they

The chapter “Good Form” of the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien presents the idea that although you can hide behind a mask the pain will never go away. Through powerful use of pathos, O’Brien reveals that no matter where you go in life and what you do, your past will always haunt you. Your past will always be there whether you make up a story to hide it or whether you accept it. O’Brien uses pathos to make the reader feel what he once felt.

DID MARY ANNE GO MAD???????I personally believe that Mary Anne had these feelings inside of her. However, seeing what Vietnam was like and everything that was happening around of her kindled this behavior inside of her. Mary Anne never shared or portrayed this behavior, she had inside of her as even the man she was to marry became shaken by her new behavior. Mary Anne started off as a loving well-groomed woman. Then when she started seeing what was going on and happening in Vietnam she commenced to change. Mary Anne became obsessed with Vietnam and all it had to offer. She did not want to leave this place, and wanted to stay and do everything she could. Mary Anne seems not to have gone mad, but to be in love with Vietnam. When she went to Vietnam