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Analysis

Ghost is the symbol of the

soldiers' fears. When they are really

scared they see madmen,murderers, the dead soldiers, and especially, they see ghosts. Those connect to their childhood's fears, which represents the immaturity of Vietnam War's soldiers.

Quote

Definition

Symbol

“I was Nam – the horror, the war.” (O'Brien, 199)

Definition

topic of discussion, main idea, a person’s thoughts …

a person, place or something comes to represent an abstract idea or concept.

Quote

Theme

SECONDARY SOURCE

“Ghost wiping out a whole Marine platoon in twenty seconds flat. Ghosts rising from the dead. Ghosts behind you and in front of you and inside you” (O'Brien, 205).

"Men die. Fear hurts and humiliates. It is hard to be brave. It is hard to know what bravery is." (If I die in a combat zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, 23)

Analysis

Source

Tim O'Brien, the author, was Vietnam. He was the war, the horror, the fears and everything the U.S. soldiers had experienced. Through this quote, O'Brien shows that fears were shared between soldiers. Fear creates disunity but also connected feelings of war buddies.

Analysis

It shows that O'Brien was so angry with Bobby Jorgenson's nervousness while treating him. It starts the two's conflict, causes disunity in the army.

Definition

Tone

A literary element of composition, which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work.

O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Print.

Quote

“ it took the son of the bitch almost ten minute to work up the nerve to crawl over to me.” (O'Brien, 190)

Analysis

O'Brien creates a man vs man conflict between Bobby Jorgenson and himself. Tim always want to revenge Bobby due to his mistake in treating Tim's wound. It connects to one of the real problems happened to the U.S. army in the Vietnam War.

Conflict

definition

Quote

the problem or issue that needs to be resolved. Types of conflict include man vs man, man vs self, man vs society.

“He swallowed whatever the sound was and forced a smile and tried shake my hand. It gives me an excuse to glare at him. 'It’s not that easy,' I said. 'Tim, I can’t go back and do things over.' 'My ass'." (O'Brien, 200)

LITERARY ELEMENTS

Analysis

SECONDARY SOURCE

O'Brien describes the fear as you are a shadow. When they are scared they become their shadows: weak, unreal, and useless. They are about to leave their future, belief and themselves behind and ready to die. It describes one of the soldiers' fears when they are at war.

Fear is one of the most popular reasons that cause PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder). (The Soldier's Heart)

Metaphor

Definition

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Quote

“You’re a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed. You know you’re about to die“. (O'Brien, 211)

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

TIM O'BRIEN

THE GHOST SOLDIERS

RELATIONS TO OPENING STORY

- Immaturity (young, unaware soldiers)

-Fear of death

SUMMARY

NGUYEN'S GROUP

DUY

TAI

NGHIA

Rat Kiley was replaced by a new medic Bobby Jorgenson Tim was shot and Jorgenson was too scared to crawl over to him, Tim nearly died of shock and since then, Tim wants to revenge. Bobby apologizes to Tim, but Tim still wants to revenge anyway. He asks Azar to help him scares Bobby at night. Jorgenson panics and rolls for cover, terrified. . Tim thinks it was even, but Azar refuses to stop. Azar took a white sandbag looks like a ghost to scare Bobby, but he doesn't scare and shoot the sandbag."Show's over", Azar said, and kicked Tim's head while he's huddling on the ground. Jorgenson treated the wound. The two apologized each other. and planned on scaring Azar

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