Tim Obrien's "The Things They Carried" Short story College English (Literature) class. MLA Format.
Carried Away
There are several instances of repetition in Tim O'Brien's short story "The Things They Carried," which is actually the first chapter in a book he published with the same title. Rhetorically, the author uses both alliteration and anaphora (which is, respectively, the repetition of syllables and the repetition of words or phrases) to punctuate many of his paragraphs. However, O'Brien's usage of repetition actually plays a fairly integral role in his structuring of this particular tale, and even in providing a moral for this story centered around events that took place during the Vietnam ar. The author utilizes repetition to emphasize various themes associated with this tale, such as the overwhelming burden of the physical and emotional strain of enduring this armed conflict. O'Brien's constant reliance upon repetition underscores the substantial burden of coping with…...
In short, it takes a little bravery to think about things in a serious manner and this includes our thoughts regarding courage. O'Brien writes, "Proper courage is wise courage (133) and it is also acting "wisely when fear would have a man act otherwise. It is the endurance of the soul in spite of fear -- wisely" (133). Courage is not something that can be conjured up on a whim, in O'Brien's estimation. It comes from coherent thinking and he writes, "Men must know what they do is courageous" (137), adding that they "must know it is right, and that kind of knowledge is wisdom and nothing else" (137). In O'Brien's opinion, bravery is not related to how one acts in the field. Bravery is described powerfully when O'Brien states, "Either they are stupid and do not know what is right . . . Or they know what is…...
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Works Cited
Myers, Thomas. "Tim O'Brien." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 152: American
Novelists Since World War II. 1995. GALE Resource Database. Information Retrieved
ith AOL's resource backing, online mass communication would benefit substantially from the heightened capabilities of a distinctly community-oriented news site.
In fact, it may be argued that the merger only further legitimized an orientation toward news that is both commercialized and populist in its intent. To the point, from Huffington's own perspective, the merger has imposed a demand for effective balance between the types of stories and headlines that drive traffic and those that are necessitated by their importance. According to Bercovici (2012), since its merger with AOL, Huffington Post has worked hard to remain firmly entrenched in both the worlds of news and entertainment. In interview, Huffington would tell Bercovici that "e're selecting the stories because we think they're important but we found a very engaged readership for them. e've seen enormous page views around some of our best feature work." (Bercovici, p. 1)
This unabashed prioritization of traffic-generation and…...
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Works Cited:
Bercovici, J. (2012). Arianna Huffington and Tim O'Brien on HuffPost's Pulitzer Win. Forbes.
Snow, N. (2011). Citizen Arianna: The Huffington Post / AOL Merger: Triumph or Tragedy. Nimble Books.
Stelter, B. (2012). Huffington Gains More Control in AOL Revamping. The New York Times.
war and reading the quotes from several thinkers in "On War," make your own statement on the subject
War: The illegitimacy of warfare
According to the philosopher Voltaire on the subject of warfare: "It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." Novels such as Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms suggest that war is fundamentally anathema to the human character. Simply because there are trumpets and an endorsement of the murder of the 'enemy' the leaders of the land, suggests Voltaire, does not make war any less scarring to human nature and dignity. Although the wars chronicled in the novels may be presented as glorious enterprises at first, the characters are initially repelled by the experience of war, and only after growing coarsened does the experience become more bearable. But…...
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