Tim O Brien Dialectical Journal

Since he was unable to make the leap towards Canada, “upstream” against the current, he went to the war. Right after he “submitted,” he cried “loud, hard.” Tim realized he was coward because he was “ashamed to be doing the right thing.” After his realization, he lost a significant part of his identity- his courage, even though it was illusionary. He didn’t look at himself the same way again. He called himself a “coward” at the end of the story, because he “went to the war.” His cowardness stemmed from the fact that he could not gather enough courage to move to Canada. After his illusion shattered, he lost his illusionary courage. Before and upon arrival of the draft notice, Tim believed that he had the courage to behave like a hero however, as the story progressed, he lost his courage. He made the decision to run to Canada, however when it came time to act upon the decision, he failed. Ultimately, Tim ended up feeling like a coward, as it “is not a happy

He states that “[He] would go to war- [He] would kill and maybe die- because [He] was embarrassed” (O’Brien 57). He soon realized that he should have escaped when he had the chance because it was better than experiencing the horrors and traumatic experiences that soldiers go through. Sometimes what society thinks can get the best of you and lead you to do things that are against your beliefs and morals. This is what Tim is trying to say through the book to the readers who might find themselves in similar situations.

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” “In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.” “All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be unhappy,” This significant quote from Brave New World had moved innumerable readers’ heart, so do I. Exaggeration? No. It’s the satire to the false meaning of the universal happiness, and it’s this quote which made me had rethink what do I really want and the way of living I want to choose. Because the deep influence and rumination brought by the book, I would like to say

Kayla- The morning of April 19, 1775 , Britain’s General Gage would send out squadrons of British soldiers stationed in Boston .

1. I would put myself in the place of the man on the horse he looks like he could be the leader, so the leader.

Tim says he wants to run away from the war in fear of breaking his morals. He feels that the war goes against everything that he stands for, “If you support a war, if you think its worth the price, that’s fine, but you have to put your own precious fluids on the line” (O’Brien 2). Tim does not think he should have to fight in a war that he is against. Even though Tim seems to live by his morals, some of his actions are ironic. Tim is a pacifist, yet he watches pigs get killed everyday. He works in a slaughterhouse, taking out the blot clots from dead pigs by shooting the carcass with a water gun. For someone who doesn’t believe in fighting or killing, his job is pretty gruesome. Tim has an internal struggle deciding whether or not to go to the war, “My conscience told me to run, but some irrational and powerful force was resisting, like a weight pushing me toward the war. What it came down to, stupidly, was a sense of shame. Hot, stupid shame.” (6). Tim knows that if he does not go to the war he will feel guilty. He will not be able to handle the amount of “shame” he would feel if he ran away. The “shame” he talks about comes from, “All those eyes on me---the town, the whole universe---and I couldn’t risk the embarrassment. It was as if there were an audience to my life” (10). Tim thinks that other people will judge him for not going to the war. The pressure of having his family and friends disapprove of his actions is what

1.) The ending did not surprise me; I think it may have if we hadn’t discussed it in class. I think I would have been very surprised and confused, if I hadn’t known the ending prior to reading it.

4. She went into the store and she didn’t find anything she wanted to buy.

As Logan and I sat at the intersection between Arrowhead Road and Midway, we waited for a text as the cars flashed past us. That was where we sat in the heated truck, waiting for a girl to give us the go ahead to come pick her up. We were jamming out to “Just What I Needed” by the Cars.

On page 51 the the second paragraph says "But he had to admit that on the days when Attean did not come the hours went by slowly." Attean didn't even like the lessons that Matt gave him. Although, Attean hated them he still went to Matts house. Therefore I believe that Attean only goes for company. Matt may feel the same way, maybe he feels lonely too. This is why I think that Matt feels like the hours go by slowly.

Prove It/Elaborate it (This shows that...because): it was Victor’s big chance to impress Teresa, and he wasn’t going to miss it.

I worked for McDonald's as a crew member and cashier from August 2014 until March 2015. I averaged between 4-12 hours a week. My posititons included taking customer's orders from the front register and drive-thru window. I also handled money and gave the customers their food. In addition to this, I also worked at Bombs away Inc. as a store clerk from March 2015 until June 2015. I averaged 6-9 hours a week. My job was to keep the store tidy, fold clothes, and stock

This passage is ironic due to the way that Okonkwo dies. The “year” that is being referred to is one yam season where the weather was so terrible that even the most experienced and hardworking farmers had terrible yields. It was so terrible that one man took his own life, due to his despair from failure. The trials of this year gave Okonkwo the confidence to face the rest of his life’s adversities with courage: if he had survived one of the worst yam seasons in the history of his village, he could survive anything. It added to his ego, and Okonkwo became a very stubborn and proud man, with a fierce attitude, and he believed that he could solve all his problems through hard work and brute strength. It was these qualities that he developed, however,

Tim is in the war for most of the story but goes back to before he was in the war and after the end of the war. During his time before the war he was a newly graduated college student. He was drafted during that time and began to freak out and tried to escape it by going to the border of Canada. While leaving he was explaining why he had so much fear and that war was stupid and didn’t require him to be in it if he didn’t want to. Here is the only time in which Tim is against war because of his fear to be part of something he was never prepared for. He’s taken on a boat to Canada to fish and there he realizes that if he doesn’t go to war he would be a coward to his entire

Before Tim O’Brien had been called to war he always thought how much bravery he had in store for him. Tim O’Brien thought that he was too good for entering the war. “War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and