Analysis Of The Book ' The Time ' By David Bergen

What could convince a serial killer not to kill another person? “Time and Again” is a short story written by Breece D’J Pancake. The story is about an older man whose wife has passed away. After his wife passed away, his son ran away. During the winter the man drives a snowplow, where he offers rides to hitchhikers. When the hitchhikers are in his truck, he murders them and feeds them to his hogs. One day he picks up a hitchhiker, and the man plans on killing him. As he is about to kill the boy, he changes his mind and just lets the boy get out of the snowplow. The hitchhiker that the snowplow driver picked up is actually his son.

The Vietnam War that commenced on November 1, 1955, and ended on April 30, 1975, took the soldiers through a devastating experience. Many lost their lives while others maimed as the war unfolded into its full magnitude. The book Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam by Bernard Edelman presents a series of letters written by the soldiers to their loved ones and families narrating the ordeals and experiences in the Warfield. In the book, Edelman presents the narrations of over 200 letters reflecting the soldiers’ experiences on the battlefield. While the letters were written many decades ago, they hold great significance as they can mirror the periods and the contexts within which they were sent. This paper takes into account five letters from different timelines and analyzes them against the events that occurred in those periods vis a vis their significance. The conclusion will also have a personal opinion and observation regarding the book and its impacts.

Unlike most war stories, in Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” the war in Vietnam is not glorified and instead, the story is believable and raw. The horrors of war that Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and his squadron experience in an unfiltered, yet emotionally detached way that molds the structure and the language. This story, through its structure and techniques, displays the idea of how disillusionment and loss of innocence create unimaginable burdens for the American soldiers. O’Brien portrays the characters’ burdens with a monotonous and lulling tone through the use of flashbacks, setting, imagery, and metonymy.

The author, Tim O'Brien, is writing about an experience of a tour in the Vietnam conflict. This short story deals with inner conflicts of some individual soldiers and how they chose to deal with the realities of the Vietnam conflict, each in their own individual way as men, as soldiers.

The Vietnam War was a controversial conflict that plagued the United States for many years. The loss of life caused by the war was devastating. For those who came back alive, their lives were profoundly changed. The impact the war had on servicemen would affect them for the rest of their lives; each soldier may have only played one small part in the war, but the war played a huge part in their lives. They went in feeling one way, and came home feeling completely different. In the book Vietnam Perkasie, W.D. Ehrhart describes his change from a proud young American Marine to a man filled with immense confusion, anger, and guilt over the atrocities he witnessed and participated in during the war.

Hundreds of battered and bruised bodies littered the floor. Sounds of fiery explosions and endless gunfire filled the air. Soldiers, whose uniforms were splashed with crimson, fought viciously and ruthlessly. Their aggressiveness stemmed from a newfound desperation to stay alive, which in turn, was caused by the war: The Vietnam War. The Vietnam War had claimed over thousands of lives and left survivors haunted by its atrocious events. The Vietnam War had an especially huge impact on Terry Erickson’s father and George Robinson, two fictitious characters from the short stories “Stop the Sun” and “Dear America.” The differences and similarities between the two men are striking, and they merit rigorous scrutiny.

The Viet Nam War has been the most reviled conflict in United States history for many reasons, but it has produced some great literature. For some reason the emotion and depredation of war kindle in some people the ability to express themselves in a way that they may not have been able to do otherwise. Movies of the time period are great, but they are not able to elicit, seeing the extremely limited time crunch, the same images and charge that a well-written book can. In writing of this war, Tim O'Brien put himself and his memories in the forefront of the experiences his characters go through, and his writing is better for it. He produced a great work of art not only because he experienced the war first hand, but because he is able to convey the lives around him in such vivid detail. He writes a group of fictional works that have a great deal of truth mixed in with them. This style of writing and certain aspects of the book are the topics of this reflective paper.

In the novel The Things They Carried and the documentary Regret to Inform, people that were involved share their recollection of events that occurred during the Vietnam War. Consequently, both works also share the underlying idea that people are affected by the war even after it is done. They convey this meaning through the stories of mental and physical harm each witness deals and dealt with because of the war.

Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War is a novel that is a personal view of the Vietnam War from the perspective of a Vietnamese soldier. Like the American novel “The things they carried”, this novel brings about the effects of war on people, and especially how it defeats the human capacity for things such as love and hope. Bao Ninh offers this realistic picture of the Vietnam War’s impact on the individual Vietnamese soldier through use of a series of reminiscences or flashbacks, jumping backwards and forwards in time between the events most salient in memory, events which take on a different theme each time they are examined. His main protagonist Kien, who is basically Bao himself, looks back not just at his ten years at

In section II, “Somnambulist,” although Ana is now a college student in America, she still gets flashbacks of the traumatic events that occurred to her during the Croatian Civil War. No matter how much she puts these thoughts aside, they still reappear unconsciously in her dreams. She “lays awake through the uneasy hours [of the night] for as long as [she] could before the dreams set in” (141). The subject of recurring nightmares demonstrates the idea that the trauma of war never is forgotten, but reappears when you least expect it. Reguardless of Ana’s distance from Croatia, she will never dismiss from her memory the night her parents were massacred and her other horrific wartime experiences. By demonstrating the everlasting trauma of war, readers can be educated on a usually overlooked repercussion of war which only increases the reader's knowledge of the perpetual damage of

   Bao Ninh's The Sorrow of War is a contrapuntal reading to American literature on the Vietnam War. But rather than stand in stark contrast to Tim O' Brien's The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War is strangely similar, yet different at the same time. From a post-colonialist standpoint, one must take in account both works to get an accurate image of the war. The Sorrow of War is an excellent counterpoint because it is truthful. Tim O' Brien writes: ". . . you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil." (O' Brien, 42) Bao Ninh succeeds in this respect. And it was for this reason that the Vietnamese

Survivors of war often suffer from post-war trauma, and this “unworked” pain is transmitted to second generation survivors. Author David Bergen, in the novel, The Time In Between depicts this viscous cycle through the relationship between the protagonists, Charles and Ada Boatman. After his experience in the Vietnam War, Charles fails to put his past behind him, which persistently haunts him in the form of guilt and shame throughout the novel. This has a negative influence on Ada, Charles daughter, who is exposed to intergenerational trauma through his war narrative. Charles is unable to fulfill an “ideal” father-figure role towards his children; thus, Ada takes on the role of a caretaker within the family. A role reversal is evident in Ada

It can be hard to fully comprehend the effects the Vietnam War had on not just the veterans, but the nation as a whole. The violent battles and acts of war became all too common during the long years of the conflict. The war warped the soldiers and civilians characters and desensitized their mentalities to the cruelty seen on the battlefield. Bao Ninh and Tim O’Brien, both veterans of the war, narrate their experiences of the war and use the loss of love as a metaphor for the detrimental effects of the years of fighting.

“In a moment my hand was on the lever and I had placed a month between myself and these monsters.” What a classic, wonderfully imaginative science fiction sentence. The story is completely and utterly engrossing. The fact that the book was published in 1895 and science-lovers can still love and appreciate this book and H.G. Wells

The title represents the major theme present in this novel: time travel. Henry is diagnosed with a disorder known as Chrono-Displacement, which causes him to time travel. In the novel, Henry is married to Clare, and the story is based on their love over the course of time. When Henry time travels, he cannot control when he travels or where he travels to. A side effect of time travel is that he cannot bring anything with him when he travels, so he ends up naked in strange locations. This is one of the conflicts in the novel because Henry is constantly time traveling, and, as a result, Clare is often left waiting for Henry to come home.