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
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
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