survival as well personal items. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carries letters and photos from a female friend named Martha, and spends most of his time mooning over her. The first casualty for the company is Ted Lavender, shot dead while relieving himself. Cross blames himself for the death because he thinks he was too busy thinking about Martha to properly take care of his troops. He burns her letters and photographs and decides to be a better leader. In “Love,” Jimmy goes to visit the narrator, Tim O’Brien
Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is in Vietnam with his platoon fighting a war but he has some memories of his love Martha a girl from his college in New Jersey. Jimmy Cross carries her letters, two photographs, and one good luck pebble in his mouth. But letters from Martha were not love letters and he hopes someday she will write a love letter to him. The narrator, Tim O'Brien tells in his story about every soldier in platoon carries different things as their need and priorities. As the leader Jimmy Cross carries
Tim Obrien focuses on individual vs. individual and individual vs. self-conflict in his story “The Things They Carried”. This Literary analysis will attempt to show how each author through different writing techniques use literary elements to deliver similar core conflicts within each story. In Obrien’s story, “The Things They Carried,” First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross encounters his struggle of individual vs. individual as it pertains to Martha, a young
Metafiction Analysis of The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien’s recent novel on the experiences he went through and stories he gathered during the Vietnam war encapsulates Catherine Calloway’s definition of metafiction by creating this fictional work that “self consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality”. Throughout the book, O’Brien brings up little things that make you think whether what
Ethan Brownell 4815649 MUS 1013 Historical Analysis of Muddy Waters From the deep southern Mississippi Delta, and later the south side of Chicago, McKinley Morganfield, or Muddy Waters as he was known to the world, developed into one of the most influential and well-recognized blues artists in history. With his unique style and immeasurable musical character Muddy was able to bring his soul out in his music and share it with the world. Crossing boundaries that many artists couldn’t, he was able