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4.12 AVERAGE
4.12 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This song encapsulates this book so well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu4Ho6QlFpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu4Ho6QlFpE
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Everyone should at least read "The Lives of the Dead," but it's the entire sequence that makes it all the more important.
Every chapter of The Things They Carried is a new adventure, a march waiting to begin. O'Brien throws the reader forward and backward in time, a technique that throws off a few of my students, but the stories are so gripping and intriguing on a human level that you feel compelled to follow. My favorite chapter is "How to Tell a True War Story," of course because it's about the power of storytelling, proving that you absolutely do not have to be a war buff to love this book.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
One of if not the single best book I’ve ever read? I’m not even a war guy like that, this book is just something else. Every story has an enormous sort of gravity to it, simultaneously drawing the reader in and crushing them under its weight. O’Brien openly contorts and obscures the objective reality of his experiences in Vietnam to expose the emotional core of each story, giving each retelling a hazy filter that somehow offers profound, intimate clarity.
I read this book in a high school english course and it was the most transformative experience I’ve had as a reader and as a writer. I went back and re-read some of it a bit more recently to make sure I wasn’t crazy about how good this book was, and I wasn’t. The chapter with the water buffalo sticks with me like nothing else.
I read this book in a high school english course and it was the most transformative experience I’ve had as a reader and as a writer. I went back and re-read some of it a bit more recently to make sure I wasn’t crazy about how good this book was, and I wasn’t. The chapter with the water buffalo sticks with me like nothing else.