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In the novel, ‘A long way gone,’ by Ishmael Beah, the main character Beah finds himself struggling with accepting his current reality multiple times. Throughout the novel, many of the characters are forced to take on a new reality, their lives all taking a whole different turn and are forced to leave their previous one…

The Things They Carried In The Things They Carried, it seems that Tim O’Brien tells the stories of soldiers and their experiences during the Vietnam War through the items that they carry with them. At the beginning of the book, Tim O’Brien repeatedly points out how the things each soldier carry differs from one another…

Tim O’Brien, the protagonist, tells stories based on his personal experience in the Vietnam War. O’Brien is a pacifist who tries to rationalize his participation in the war. He concluded his feelings into joining the war “because [he] was embarrassed not to” fulfill the obligation toward his family and country (O’Brien 38). He is swayed…

Imagine feeling alone in an attic and living a lie. That’s what Anne Frank, a teenage girl had to experience. She had to live in an attic for 2 years hiding away from the Nazis during both years feeling miserable,unloved, and dejected. To let all of those feelings out she wrote them into her diary….

My sister and I fight a lot. Normally, what happens is she says something to me that makes me mad and I retaliate. Then we start arguing back and forth, and sometimes it gets physical and we hit each other. After a while my mom comes in and yells at both of us. I get…

My book is called A long way gone and it’s talking about how a group of kids survived a war land by themselves without anyone helping except them coming together. As they’re trying their best to survive on this dangerous and hard mission death comes along and takes down one by one of this small…

The story The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a collection of many stories about the war featuring the main protagonist Tim O’Brien. Although O’Brien is in the story, he chooses to write this book in a fictional way. The reason is so he could incorporate figurative language to make the story to appeal…

Overall I believe that the book A Long Way Gone was a good book and had a lot of interesting points throughout it. It was a book that pulled me into it as soon as i started reading it. This book is a memoir of a boy soldier. This book was written by Ishmael Beah…

Imagine being alone in an attic with a bunch of people you extremely dislike for two years. Anne Frank had to do this and as you would imagine it was not very lighthearted. Anne and her family had to go into hiding because World War II led to forcible relocation Jews into concentration camps. At…

Tim O’Brien, the author of The Things They Carried, tells a story of how much a Vietnam war could affect one and who one becomes. Reading and analyzing the story really made me think, and feel the way these soldiers did in the book with what was happening. Tim is very detailed when it comes…