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The Elusiveness of War and the Tenuousness of Morality in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," "How to Tell a True War Story," and "Style"

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Jessica K

 

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June 27, 2015

 

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O'Brien portrays the character Mitchell Sanders as an observer who seeks the morals to be found through the war fatalities; however, he depicts these morals in a manner that actually stresses the impiety of the situations above all else. The characters in this novel are at the forefront of the Vietnam War, thus blinded by carnage that soon begins to obscure any prior notions held about what is moralistic and what is not...
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The characters in this novel are at the forefront of the Vietnam War, thus blinded by carnage that soon begins to obscure any prior notions held about what is moralistic and what is not. The death of Ted Lavender in "The Things They Carried" leads to Lieutenant Jimmy Cross' moral blunder which is brought about by his guilt over the horror of the incident: Lieutenant Cross felt the pain...
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