Vietnam Before The War, By Tim O Brien

Point-of-View – is the perspective or mode in which a story is being told. The individual narrating the story is someone the author of the story invents, so that he or she will tell the story for the ones reading it.

With this part of the story, O’Brien is able to inject the theme of shame motivating the characters in the book. This chapter is about how the author, who is also the narrator, is drafted for the war. He runs away to the border between Canada and the United States, he stays in a motel with an old man for about a week and finds that he should go to war for his country. In the beginning it was about shame, he didn’t want to look like a coward because in truth he was scared. He was afraid to face the pressures of war, the humiliation and the fact of losing “everything”. This man was an average person who lived an average life with no problems, until he got the notice about the war, which caused the shame and fear of being seen as a bad person to come out.

In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, he emphasizes a chapter on “The Man I Killed”, which describes the characteristics of a young Vietnamese man in which O’Brien may or may not have killed with a grenade. The novel is not chronologically sequenced, which leaves more room for the reader to engage in a critical thought process that fully bridges the author’s mind to their own. In O’Brien’s chapter, “The Man I Killed”, he attempts to humanize the enemy in a way that draws little separation between the enemy and himself by relating the enemy’s life prior to the war to his, and illustrates the war through the eyes of the soldiers who fought it.

I wouldn’t recommend this book to the average reader. It is a bit hard to read because the author goes into so much depth that the reader could very often forget the main idea. It is a good, informative book but a bit drawn out.

Throughout 1964 to 1975 the Vietnam War was taking place on Korean soil in South Vietnam. Many young soldiers were called to serve during the war including Tim O’ Brien. In the story “The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien illustrates realistic views by camouflages his past experiences of the combat to expose the immorality of the war and the life cycle of an American soldier during this era.

He emphasizes about the bad experience of the war. He explains that the war isn’t what he thought it would be. He explains that he never wanted to be a soldier in the war, because he felt like he was too good to be in the war, and rather be doing his studies instead. However, he had no choice, and he became a soldier like the rest of his friends in his platoon. He uses his experience during the Vietnamese war to help him write short stories about it. He complains how many of the stories that he written has been altered and that is some of the things that happened were not true. The things that were made up, however, were to make the story sound more realistic and that people can relate to. Tim O’Brien stressed about how he would tell his daughter what had happened out in Vietnam, but he finds out that Kathleen does not understand the meaning of the Vietnam War. O’Brien feels guilty of what had happened in the war and that why he decided to write them all on paper, as he is emotionally and mentally unstable because of the many experiences that he had to go through during the

All in all, I liked this book a lot. First of all, it was hard to start reading it - there was so many new people and that’s why I was confused a lot. Later in the book, it was hard to stop reading, because the whole book was really interesting. There are short texts throughout the book - they help a lot in some confusing situations. Also, sometimes they explain some stuff more in depth. Overall, I liked this book a lot and I would recommend it to anybody who likes history and breathtaking

The story by Tim O’Brien shows how the soldiers are themselves and can also be serious. O’Brien also sees how Vietnam changes the soldiers and how they see the world now. There will be people that will ask if it’s true or not true they can asks what happened. There can be different ways to tell a story but they can ask what happen. O’Brien would know which story he really believes. O’Brien will give use by looking at Rat’s point of view, and Sanders point of view of Lemon death and how Rat copes with a letter. Here are three points’ that will go with O’Brien story the history, biography and literary criticism.

Tim O’Brien is known for sharing his life stories with the world. In many of his stories and memoirs he goes into detail about his experiences in the Vietnam War. As quoted from Tim O’Brien, “My passion[s] as a human being and as a writer intersect in Vietnam, not in the physical stuff but in the issues of Vietnam -- of courage, rectitude, enlightenment, holiness, trying to do the right thing in the world” (Chin 1062). Both of his stories Ambush and The Things They Carried are memories of what happened to and around him during the war. He goes into detail about the war and the hardships he had to face to survive. Especially in The Things They Carried he emphasizes the physical and emotional traumas the characters had to face. Tim O’Brien is an influential American author who is highly known for his memoirs and stories such as Ambush and The Things They Carried.

Tim O’Brien, while having actually fought in Vietnam, did not write down entirely factual accounts of his experiences there. Due to this, the novel cannot be considered non-fiction and is instead distributed as a fiction title. This is not to say that the stories contained are not, to some degree, similar to what may have actually occurred to the author or other veterans. Many of the stories in the novel are inspired by actual experiences, but it is fiction.

Tim O’Brien writes about the different characters he meant during the Vietnam War and what stories the character carried. In the beginning of the novel we are introduced to the main character Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. He is presented as a weak character who thinks about his love live more than being a leader for the platoon. As the novel progresses the characters are presented differently. O’Brien also highlights the physical objects the characters carried and how they connects to the emotional weight the characters carried. In the end, O’brien talks about how the old Tim saved the new Timmy explaining how the stories in his memories make up the person he is now. The novel presents so many stories that illustrate the hardship of the Vietnam War and each

I thought this book was well written. It had a good plot with a couple twists and turns thrown in there. The plot of the story also held many different types of emotion. Therefore, it was sad at some points, happy and exciting, or even surprising at times in the story. I also thought that the book gave off a strong message/theme that applies to the real world. Next,

Azar, an American soldier congratulates Tim on killing the enemy. Azar was the kind of soldier that didn’t care about their enemies, he actually felt joy in killing them. Kiowa, another American soldier sees that he is in shock on what he had done so tells Azar to leave him alone. Kiowa is more sympathetic. Tim imagines what have had been the life of the soldier that he had killed. He makes up a fictional biography of his victim. He imagines that the Vietnamese soldier was always afraid of going to war and that he could never thought that he could be a hero, he had always avoided politics. The only reason why he was at war was because he didn’t want to disgrace himself, his family and the village. He imagined his victim since he was a little boy, being afraid of growing up and wishing that the Americans would leave. As he grew up and went to the university his hopes began to diminish and was just waiting. He devoted himself

Grace Miyamoto Journal 1 Free Reading The Book Thief I chose to read the book The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. There were a few factors into why I chose to read this book. The first reason that I read it was because my older brothers had read this book before me and had recommended that I should read it.

Take the case of Tim O’Brien, an American novelist, popularly known for his book The Things They Carried. In this book, O’Brien shares his experiences in the Vietnam war