"War does not determine who is right - only who is left." \- Bertrand Russell, a British Mathematician and Philosopher, summing up WW1 and all the chaos created. War is the embodiment of physical and …
The Things They Carried
From sweethearts full of hopes and dreams to becoming one with the jungle, war can steal more than lives. In a medical detachment where the wounded were brought, the men joke about bringing women to t…
By utilizing repetition and retrospection, O'Brien humanizes Lieutenant Jimmy Cross by revealing his feelings of guilt and self-blame for Kiowa's death while revealing to the audience their similariti…
"War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is…
Did you know that during the Vietnam war close to 210,000 Americans were accused of draft offenses and 30,000 left the country? In Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, the chapter "On The Rainy Rive…