Style and Storytelling in The Things They Carried
Date Submitted: 05/13/2004 14:59:01
Category: / Literature / Biographies
Length: 9 pages (2410 words)
Category: / Literature / Biographies
Length: 9 pages (2410 words)
Haresh Soorma
Literature |10 G
Karen Chase
12 March 2004
Style and Storytelling in The Things they Carried
Thesis: Tim O'Brien has created a unique novel in The Things They Carried by using styles, such as changing points of view, "blurring the boundaries between truth and fiction" , and use of repetition for effect.
I. Changing points of view
A. Metaficition
B. Creation of two characters
C. Narrator
D. Fictionalized Character
II. Truth and Fiction
A. Comparison and Contrast …
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