How Does O Brien Tell The Lives Of The Dead

Linda was O’Brien’s first experience with death and the loss of a close friend or loss of a person in his life. She represented young and innocence in life. After Linda died, O’Brien kept her alive by dreaming of her all the time, he even looked forward to sleeping just so he could see her. This was the beginning of his storytelling and keeping people alive with his mind or through stories. She represents the loss of innocence and loss of childhood. This representation is an example of the young soldiers who lost their lives and drastically changed in the war. When she died and Timmy saw her dead body he realized that people die and your friends can die; which is something the soldiers experienced for the first time. O’Brien keeping her alive

Her purpose in this books to show his reason to write these stories. She shows that he wishes to make the dead immortal within the pages of The Things They Carried. Throughout the story, O'Brien's belief that storytelling helps heals the wounds caused by the pain and confusion of coping with unexpected death. After Linda dies, O’Brien uses his subconscious and imagination to bring her back to life as he doesn’t want to forget her. He supports this point when he says “And as a writer now, I want to save Linda’s life. Not her body-her life.” (O’Brien 236) This again shows how the dead can still be alive through literature. He wants to show how she will continue to live on inside of his writings. His experience with Linda's death also explains how he was able to deal with the constant death in Vietnam. Similar to Linda, O’Brien is able to bring Norman Bowker and Kiowa back to the land of the living using the stories. As O’Brien says himself “We kept the dead alive with stories” ( O’Brien 239) He is showing that their lives and the way they spend them are much more important than them dying, and he will make sure this stays true by keeping writing about them and making sure no one forgets their story.. Ultimately O'Brien's storytelling is a way that he able to keep his psychology in check. He is able to cope with everything that happens because he believes he is making up for it with this.

In “Lives of the Dead”, O’Brien’s own innocence is preserved through the memory of Linda, a memory that remains untarnished by the inevitable corruption that results from life. O’Brien’s writings “save Linda’s life. Not her body--her life” (236). Storytelling and memories preserve the value of Linda’s existence while simultaneously allowing O’Brien to process death and destruction in a way that maintains a degree of optimism regarding his own life and future. Juxtaposing the images of body and life emphasizes his desire to save the idea of Linda while accepting the loss of her physical presence. O’Brien rejects the idea of death as absolute and final; instead he suggests that “once you are alive, you can never be dead” (244). Linda’s death solidifies her importance in O’Brien’s own development; she teaches him about life and real love as much as in death as in life. O’Brien’s paradoxical statement defines the lasting impact of Linda on him; her presence in his stories keeps her alive through memory; memories that even her death

This summer, I read the book The Dead by Charlie Higson is a novel about a large group of kids, left to live by themselves without guidance from their parents. In this run-down setting of London, England, people who are over the age of 16 turn into kid hunting, flesh-eating zombies. The younger kids are forced to live on their own, fighting for life against the wrath of the Adults. The message Higson showed in his book is: after people are forced to rely on themselves without experience, their lack of experience and knowledge will lead them to failure.

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Octavio Paz discusses the topic of Mexican fiestas and the effects they have on an individual and on the society in "The Day of the Dead." He sees that the fiestas help individuals break free from the "normal" life they live, in which they have to restrain themselves from being who they truly are to fit into society's perception of what is orthodox. Moreover, he claims that fiestas engage the society by permitting anything, in which "customary hierarchies vanish, along with ll social, sex, caste, and trade distinctions" (Paz 3) by reconciling the past and the future (Paz 1). He implies that anyone can be whoever or whatever they want to be, giving each person the freedom to exist without being prejudiced against for a certain amount of time

Drawing upon the ability of fiction to preserve life against death, O 'Brien says that, during wartime, that they were able to "[keep] the dead alive with stories" (239). To the living, stories were a way to keep the memory of the dead alive, but to the dead, it was the simple act of remembering that kept them alive: "That 's what a story does. The bodies are animated. You make the dead talk" (232). This theme of preservation is exemplified by story of Linda, in which O 'Brien uses the power of storytelling and memory to keep people alive: "Stories can save us. I 'm forty-three years old, and a writer now, and even still, right here, I keep dreaming Linda alive...They 're all dead. But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world." (225).

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The power of the story has been very much a part of the lives of humans throughout time. The story is able to bring the past to the present and the dead to the living. The story can make the blind see. The story is able to make others feel for events in time that they have never experienced. The story has a profound effect on both the teller and the audience. As the audience is thought to be the beneficiary or the storytelling process, the teller is able to relive the times of old, or even teach a valuable lesson to his or her audience. Thus, allowing both parties to gain something intangible throughout this process. In “The Lives of the Dead,” O’Brien conveys the importance of storytelling and imagination by suggesting that the dead can be brought back to life in the minds of the people who hear it.

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