Tim O’Brien

Discuss the first object/thought/feeling you selected and explain it using specific examples. Why do you carry this with you every day? 

English Composition This week we read Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried.” We learn about all the objects the characters carry, some out of necessity and others for sentimental reasons. We also learned that some things people carry are not tangible (like guilt or love). In this exercise, discuss the most important object(s) […]

Explain how symbolism is used in one of the stories from this lesson.

Essay Assignment Your essay should hit (or come reasonably close) the last line on page 2. Explain how symbolism is used in one of the stories from this lesson. This includes “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien or “The Birth-Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne only. Keep in mind that you should be discussing how the […]

Using the literature book“The Things They Carried,” discuss the ways in which burdens, physical and mental/emotional, impact the soldiers.

The Things They Carried In “The Things They Carried,” the soldiers carry both tangible and intangible things. Discuss the ways in which burdens, physical and mental/emotional, impact the soldiers. Book; Literature: The Human Experience. Tim O’Brien- the things they carried

Write about the “truths” that are written about war in the novel. That is, what does the novel tell you about war? Develop your paper through ideas obtained from the novel.

Yellow Birds The “Yellow Birds” is a work of fiction. That is, all the characters are made up in the imagination of the author as well as the story and the things that happen in the novel. However, as the great writer Tim O’Brien states in The Things They Carried, “A thing may happen and […]

Write a book review about The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien and to your main statements find some angle or idea to develop a trace on a THEME, such as destruction due to unrequited love in The Great Gatsby.

The Things They Carried This Literary critique will be about The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien and it will be ran through TurnItIn for plagiarism. Your main statements will be the point that you’re trying to prove about the book. Your point should be enough of an argument that someone who has read the […]

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