Essays on The Things They Carried
In our lives as we grow up we go through situations and we don’t know how to process or understand the feelings we are experiencing. Many times we take drastic measures to get rid of these feelings that make us feel guilty and scared. In “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is a story...
Tim O’Brien writes about how war is an all-consuming event that takes almost everything from the people that are involved in it, mainly the soldiers. The men that fought in this war have both an internal and external conflict. They must give up their normal lives they had in order to fight for the lives...
One of the main characters in this novel is twenty-four-year-old, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. Jimmy is the assigned leader of the Alpha Company in the Vietnam War. His role is to be a strong leader who instructs his troops to gain measurable advantage over the enemy, but he fails to demonstrate the ability to fulfil his...
In the “Red Convertible,” it is shown two Native American brothers Lyman and Henry out in the world traveling wherever the wind takes them. One major theme of the story involves looking at the effects of war on the individual. In addition, the bond between brothers and the responsibility they have towards each other is...
