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    Things They Carried

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    Tim O'Brien does a fantastic job of blurring the lines of what is true and what is fiction in The Things They Carried. In fact, he often points out that he has made entire stories up, after the fact. He defends his decisions by proposing that what he has done is, in fact, not lie, but rather tell a story-truth. He argues that his reason for doing this is to bring the story to life more than it could live through the happening-truth. 'I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth

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    yourself with people that make you feel good about yourself, not people who make you want to change. It is amazing knowing that no one can be who you are. A lot of people do not have the guts to show their true colors, but the one's that do are special. "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer

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    David Sedaris and “Why We Travel” written by Pico Iyer share the theme of “finding true self during traveling”. Pico Iyer believes that traveling helps us find our “truer” identities. Sedaris’s story is an example for the argument of Pico Iyer because it demonstrates that people have a hidden part of selfishness in their shadow, which is the unknown side of personality. This hidden selfishness is a part of our true selves. The plot of the Sedaris’s story mainly focuses on the intolerance of one of

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    From birth to age 6/7, studies have shown, the most important adult figure in a child 's life under traditional circumstances is the mother, and it is this period that the child learns what love is. Relationships between the researched subjects and their mothers were uniformly cool, distant, unloving, neglectful, with very little touching, emotional warmth - the children were deprived of love. As a small child, the grandfather who served as his father figure was Ted 's beloved role model from whom

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    True Grit Analysis

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    “True Grit” is about a fourteen year old girl trying to bring justice to the man who killed her father. She hires a sheriff named Rooster to help her. Through characterization, setting, and law enforcement, Charles Portis in “True Grit” sets an accurate portrayal of the time period know as the old west to create a more riveting story. Mattie is a fourteen year old girl, who has the responsibilities of an adult, which was expected of people that age in this time period. “[Mattie] kept his books for

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    Birds are beautiful in the wild, and they're incredibly cute, but they are not good pets because they require so much care. Parrots taken from the wild aren't meant to be kept in cages. Birds that are born to caged birds are still only one or two generations from being tamed. They're not domesticated pets. The practices that are used to catch birds and bring them to your home are abusive and cruel too. Responsibility for a Parrot Parrots are a huge responsibility. They require even more care than

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    creates a goal she wants to achieve and she becomes the hero of this novel because of this. She will not have a goal if her call to adventure does not occur. A quest story always contains a hero, a wise old man, and a guide. In Charles Portis novel True Grit, he demonstrates exactly that. Mattie Ross comes forth as the hero of his novel. Rooster Cogburn assists her by taking on the role of the wise old man. LaBoeuf appears in this novel as the guide. Mattie, Rooster and LaBouef all fit into the roles

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    What kind of components are in a quest novel? There is a quest hero, the wise old man, a helper or guide, a call, and many more. Charles Portis applies these components to many of his characters in his novel True Grit. There is stubborn, fourteen year old Mattie Ross, the quest hero, Marshal Rooster Cogburn, the wise old man, and a conceited Texas ranger named LaBoeuf, the helper/guide. Throughout this novel, they prove that they are the characters of a quest novel in many ways. A quest hero is

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    True Grit Analysis

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    The Girl with Grit In the classic novel, True Grit, Charles Portis allows the main character, Mattie Ross, to tell the story of the journey she set out on to gain vengeance on her father's killer. Mattie travels with Yarnell, a family friend, from her hometown Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas to Fort Smith, Arkansas where she gathers information about her father's murder from the sheriff's office. After speaking with the sheriff, Mattie resales the horses her father bought back to Colonel Stonehill

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    The stranger beside me was written by Ann Rule and was published in 1980. Ann Rule is a true crime written who was born October 22nd 1931 and died at age 83 in July 26th 2015. This book is about her time working on a late night shift at a suicide hotline service in her adopted homeland in Seattle, with a co-worker, Ted Bundy. Ann Rule was a police officer in Seattle. Her job at the police department consisted of documenting all the homicide cases. She has four children and was on the verge of being

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