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Three Stories of Travel from Chatwin, Kincaid, and Theroux
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This 6 page report discusses specific passages from Bruce Chatwin's Songlines," Jamaica Kincaid's "A Small Place," and Paul Theroux's "The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWtravel.rtf

Tillie Olsen
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A 14 page research paper that examines the work of Tillie Olsen, in particular her novel Yonnondio and her short story, "I Stand Here Ironing." The writer argues that Tillie Olsen's writing reflects her personal and political upbringing. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing”
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A 5 page analysis of this classic short story. This paper explores the thesis that “the ironing board and the act of ironing symbolize the mother looking back at the past and also the future of her daughter's life”. No additional sources are listed.
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Tillie Olsen: The Story is Her Life
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A 7 page paper which examines how Tillie Olsen’s life, the Great Depression in particular, impacted her writing, and considers how reality shaped her fiction. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Tim O'Brien/ "The Things They Carried"
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A 5 page analysis of Tim O'Brien's novel of the Vietnam War—"The Things They Carried." The writer argues that the unusual structure of this novel blurs the line between fiction and reality in order to demonstrate how the war experience affected the soldiers involved. No additional sources cited.
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Tim O'Brien/"Things They Carried" & Innocence
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A 3 page essay on the short story, "The Things They Carried," in which author Tim O'Brien offers a complex psychological portrayal of the combat experience. O'Brien's writing style is not chronologically oriented, that is, one episode does not lead directly into the next. The abrupt starts and stops in the narrative mirror the disjointed and fractured thinking processes of the narrator rather than the reality of the situation. However, the narration is linked by several themes, and it is from one of these themes that O'Brien draws his title. This title, "The Thing They Carried," indicates the manner in which identity is formulated and how reality, for each soldier, is defined. In presenting this theme, O'Brien focuses on how the things they carried is connected to sense of self and how destroying what he carried symbolized lost innocence in the eyes of Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. No additional sources cited.
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Tim O'Brien/Combat in Vietnam
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A 10 page research paper that examines the question as to whether or not Tim O'Brien novel of Vietnam combat experience, The Things They Carried, should be given to a soldier in the military right now. The writer argues that it should not precisely because O'Brien's stream of conscious narrative is so realistic that it could be demoralizing to a soldier facing combat conditions. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Tim O'Brien/Reality v. Fantasy
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A 3 page essay that analyzes the theme of reality versus fantasy in Tim O'Brien's novel The Things They Carried, which presents the experience of soldiers fighting in Vietnam in a realistic manner. A realistic war story is nothing new. Many writers have related the carnage and horror of war, but they do so in a standard linear fashion, which has the effect of relating the irrationality of war in a rational fashion. O'Brien's writing, rather than presenting his war stories in a rational, chronological fashion, blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. In doing so, he presents a truer picture of combat experience because this recreates the psychic landscape of the traumatized combat soldier. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khtorv.f.rtf

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