The Things They Carried By: Tim O’Brien

The Things They Carried By: Tim O’Brien

Paper instructions:
THE BOOK THAT THIS PAPER IS ON AND MUST BE USED IS: The Things They Carried By: Tim O’Brien

In a 3-5 page essay (900-1500 words), address one of the following prompts. Provide an argumentative thesis, one that reflects your interpretation of the text, and organization to develop that thesis. Support your claims with textual evidence-include quotations from the text, in MLA format.

1. Why does O’Brien write a war story in which there are no heroes?

2. What is the effect of blending “actual-truth” with “story-truth”?

3. What is the effect of dividing the book up into short stories rather than producing chapters that convey a continuous, sequential plot line?

4.Analyze why O’Brien begins and ends his novel with the chapters, “The Things They Carried” and “TheLives of the Dead.”

5.O’Brien claims that he is not a Vietnam writer. He states, “It’s like calling Toni Morrison a black writer or Joseph Conrad an ocean writer or Shakespeare a royalty writer. . .

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