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Question Answered step-by-step Respond and make a question to each num-ber 1. Prompts 1: Quote 1:… Respond and make a question to each num-ber1. Prompts 1:Quote 1:”Among the men there would be grumbling, of course, and maybe worse, because their days would seem longer and their loads heavier, but Lieutenant Jimmy Cross reminded himself that his obligation was not to be loved but to lead. He would dispense with love; it was not now a factor.” (O’Brien25)  In “The Things They Carried,” O’Brien introduces his audience to the army personnel he served alongside in Vietnam. O’Brien utilizes a list of tangible goods that members of his unit in Vietnam used to visualize the things that are significant to a soldier and their emotional load.Men carried different things such as love and guilt in each stage of life. When Soldiers carried physical and emotional burden in chapter one because he brought many things such as, foods, guns, and medical gear during the war for survival.They met many difficulties during the war time, so that they carried diseases, lice and various rots when O’ Brien says: “What they carried varied by mission”.(page8)  After one of his crews was died, he faced emotional burden and abandoned Martha’s photo because he thinks he is responsible for the death of Ted Lavender. Cross was erasing his link to the past, giving up on anything that distracts him from the fight, and punishing himself for his failure by burning the letters from Martha. Love and hatred become entwined during a battle. “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die.” (O’ Brien 20).  Grief, terror, love, and longing gave them more mass and specific gravity than those physical pains. People’s psychology after the war is very fragile, many people will think about the war state repeatedly, even after the war is over, they can’t control it. But often the more you want to get rid of it, the deeper the pain.Quote 2:”Stories can save us. I’m forty-three years old, and a writer now, and even still, right here, I keep dreaming Linda alive. And Ted Lavender, too, and Kiowa, and Curt Lemon…..They’re all dead.”(O’ Brien213)In the chapter of “The Live of the Dead”, those dead people for O’ Brien were dead already in reality, but stories have the ability to resuscitate the dead in certain ways, not through their bodies but through their spirits. As he thought about Linda, O’ Brien knew that she died in 9 years old due to brain tumor by saying: “But in a story I can steal her soul. I can revive, at least briefly, that which is absolute and unchanging.” (O’ Brien224) O’Brien parallels his Vietnam battlefield memories to the tragedy of his childhood girlfriend, Linda, who died at the age of nine from a brain tumor. O’Brien has never seen a dead body before. He feels that tales keep their subjects alive, thus Linda can live eternally.  Prompts 2:Tim O’Brien appears to have convinced war narrative theorists that Vietnam Conflict Literature cannot be comprehensive since the war itself is fractured. Philip Caputo Remembers His Idealism (1965) describes personal experience from a soldier’s point of view in which Caputo’s words are grouped together to generate a flowing cohesion while yet demonstrating how fractured life was in Vietnam for the soldiers who fought there. “War is always attractive to young men who know nothing about it, but we had also been seduced into uniform by Kennedy’s challenge to ”ask what you can do for your country” and by the missionary idealism he had awakened in us”(Caputo). Compared with Tim O’ Brien’s novel “the things they carried”, the way Caputo describes war in  Vietnam provide comprehensive understanding for people who did not experience Vietnam War since he provides some background information:  I landed at Danang with a battalion of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, the first U.S. combat unit sent to Indochina. Bob Dylan’s popular song “Master of War” reveals how Americans are being driven into war by those who directly gain from it. The individuals in authority in the government are to blame for war atrocities and all the pointless bloodshed. People still use this song in protests when they believe government officials are abusing their position and treating them unfairly. The lyrics are harsh and strong. “Master of War” will always be a symbol in the field of citizen protest against unjust wars. 2. Prompt 1: Quote #1″Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried tranquilizers until he was shot inthe head outside the village of Than Khe in mid-April.” (O’Brien 2) In “The things they carried” At the beginning of the story O’Brien goes over lists of items and belongings that people take to the war. At first, was very intriguing and bizarre to read what certain items people would carry on the trip to the war. One person by the name of Ted lavender brought a tranquilizer to the war; which for one showed that these people weren’t prepared at all and brought whatever they felt was most needed. It was probably a very surreal moment for each person in such a way that he by bringing an item with them gave everyone a sense of belonging and hope. It was a drastic and unpredictable change that all the items helped the respective soldier to survive from day to day and to continue fighting the war. Quote #2:”But this too is true: stories can save us. I’m forty-three years old, and awriter now, and even still, right here, I keep dreaming of Linda alive. AndTed Lavender, too, and Kiowa, and Curt Lemon, and a slim young man Ikilled, and an old man sprawled beside a pigpen, and several otherswhose bodies I once lifted and dumped into a truck. They’re all dead.” (O’ Brien 144)In this quote, O’Brien really explains the way people used to cope with a lot of the trauma that was faced in the war. He mentions that daydreaming that the people that died are still alive in his mind. My interpretation of this explains that he would much rather think about them in a way that is more peaceful because each of them died in the most horrific way, whether that’s getting shot in the head or speaking of courage. It is all very traumatic in the sense that you wouldn’t want to think about people that you cared for or had a connection with in that manner. He continued on by saying that in his daydream he can picture every one of them smiling and in a way made a lot of the gruesome things he saw and took place in the war a lot more hopeful for himself. So, he practically uses dark humor, daydreaming, and violent actions which allow an escape from the horrors they had to go through in Vietnam.  These coping mechanisms allowed men to continue to fight and survive the war.  Prompt 2: In the first quote some similarities between my lai massacre, and the cruelty of the massacre.  In the story, a girl named Kiley shot the baby buffalo to basically do damage. In a way that was a good way to release stress and frustration. In O’Brien, it is constantly shown that each person held a lot of anger about the war, and because of that, it lead them to truly use violence as a way to let out extreme anger. In ‘ the things they carried’: “Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen got into a fistfight. It was about something stupid—a missing jackknife—but even so, the fight was vicious. For a while, it went back and forth, but Dave Jensen was much bigger and much stronger, and eventually, he wrapped an arm around Strunk’s neck and pinned him down, and kept hitting him on the nose. He hit him hard. And he didn’t stop.” (O’ Brien 39) This shows that a lot of anger towards the war and what people had to go through left a lot of people to hurt the people closest to them and overall left anybody a bit ticked off easily.  The ballad of the Green Beret has a lot to do with the US special forces soldiers. But it did go over a lot of the experiences during the war. In songs, it says:” Fighting soldiers from the sky Fearless men who jump and die Men who mean just what they say The brave men of the Green Beret” (Sadler & Moore) A lot of the Vietnam men had to go through a lot of the American soldiers which is why it led many to interpret it as sympathetic to the conflict there.  History US History HIST 137 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)