Great stories articulate and explore the mysteries of our daily lives in the larger context of the human struggle. The writer’s voice, style, and use of language inform the plot, characters, and themes. By creating opportunities to learn, imagine, and reflect, a great book is a work of art that affects many generations of readers, changes lives, challenges assumptions, and breaks new ground.
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The Things They Carried is widely regarded as one of the most significant works of literature about the Vietnam War. Robert Harris, book editor for the New York Times, wrote:
“Only a handful of novels and short stories have managed to clarify, in any lasting way, the meaning of the war in Vietnam for America and for the soldiers who served there. Tim O’Brien captures the war’s pulsating rhythms and nerve-racking dangers. But he goes much further. By moving beyond the horror of the fighting to examine with sensitivity and insight the nature of courage and fear, by questioning the role that imagination plays in helping to form our memories and our own versions of truth, he places The Things They Carried high up on the list of best fiction about any war.”
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TASK: Your research paper must use The Things They Carried as a basis for analyzing War. The Vietnam War is obviously a specific war and time period, but War in general should be considered in the development of your project. You need to search and develop 5 more sources as you identify what you are going to write about: YOUR THESIS.
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