Essays on Vietnam War Page 2

In the novel ​The Things They Carried​, by Tim O’Brien reveals the binaries of human immorality and war itself. Morals can be defined as one’s perception of right and wrong. Therefore, immorals are the opposite, someone who does not follow their rules of good and bad. War is an inhumane and a disturbing thing that…

The sad thing about the Vietnam war is that it took good-old, ordinary, American boys and changed them forever. Tim O’Brien vividly describes in great detail the horrific day to day occurrences of the war, his fellow soldiers and friends’ characters, their deaths, their thoughts, and their actions. He takes us through an emotional journey…

The Civil War was characterized by a lot of changes in American society and its politics, more than any other event in the history of the United States. Of all the experiences endured by the generations of Americans, The Civil war was the most traumatizing, with over 620,000 soldiers losing their lives in the war….

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…

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…

In Tim O’Brien’s story, The Things They Carried The author tells about his experiences in The Vietnam War by telling differing war stories. Everyone has to deal with hardship at some time in their lives. The misfortune that they go through varies from person to person. First Jimmy Cross, he had to make it through…