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An example is when they describe how an old man was flown away. Jimmy hugged him and the chopper took him away.

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On pages 56 and 57, the author has auditory and visual hallucinations, seeing everybody from his past, hearing them as well.

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a the number 43 keeps popping up. And it has different meaning for each time its mention.

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Dark humor when he tells of the man shooting the dog like it was normal

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When he talks about his jobs with the pigs. Visual

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The author keeps on putting himself into the story

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The author switches between the main characters and himself

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On page 59,an example of fragmentation is shown as the author finishes their story about running to Canada on page 58... only to completely reset any emotions by starting a new one.

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The description of where they were.for example they used things such as" elephant grass."

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Maximalism, when O'Brien talks about where he worked at during the summer and how he was always covered in  pig blood arterwards

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Maximalism of what's the soilders heard in the forest

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Minimalism the author talked about stories before the war and not the story of the war

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The author repeatedly inserts himself into the story

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Description of the smell and look of the pig clot removal. Visual

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When the author repeats that they are forty three years old

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The author self-inserts them self into the story a lot.

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Minamalism the author gets of topic and talks about stories before the wad

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On page 59, an example of fragmentation is shown as the author finishes a story they had,only to immediately talk about another story,completely resetting any feelings brought about by the previous story.

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Repetition of "a true war is never ..."

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When the author inserts themselves into the story on page 31

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The author uses dark humour when he talks about Azar strapping the puppy to a claymore explosive

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Repetition: In the story the number 43 is seen multiple times.

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The story suddenly switches to the authors perspective

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The author used minimalism when he was talking about old poppa San. He doesn't really tell us who he is.

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Author intrudes into the story when he talks about his experiences throughout the war

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When the phrase "43 years old" is constantly repeating through the chapter.

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O'Brien is finally putting himself into the story. He starts to give some background on him throughout this chapters. Throughout the story, he's been talking about the soldiers and what they carry.

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Repeatedly talks about his life before the war.

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Author intrudes in the story.

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Jimmy cross repeatedly talks about touching Martha's knee.

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Paradox when the author talks about how he felt peace at award and war at peace(34)

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The author describing his job as packing meat all the blood and slaughter represents visual imagery.

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The author uses paradox by saying he found war in peace, yet peace in war

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Still smoking dope

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They would always use Lavender as an example after his death through out the war.

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When the author includes himself in the story. Changes It to first person

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Maximalism because he talks about pointless memories.

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When the author inserts themselves into the story on page 31

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The author believes stories have no beginning or end. And that time has no grasp on stories

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Repetition of his age " forty-three years old" throughout the chapter spin

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Tim O'Brien inserts himself into the story to tell his opinion about what he felt about the Vietnam War in that period of time and how he still feels about it.

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Page 12 imagery is used to discredit ted lavenders face when he was shot

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"He wanted Martha to love him as he loved her"- This is significant because this is thefirst  thing we learn about Jimmy Cress

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Maximalism withthe  kick that was carrying a rice bag a rifle and how they cut his thumb of as like a rabbits tail

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Imagery is constantly used on page 12 to describe the items

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The imagery of Martha on the beach with the pebble

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Imagery is shown on pg.17 "He liked the smell of the New Testament under his cheek, the leather and ink and paper and glue, whatever the chemicals were"

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The soldiers were constantly smoking.

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Almost every time they had free time they would be smoking.

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This description of what the soldiers carried in vitenam help you imagine what it was like in the forestry rainforest of Vietnam. "They carried the land itself -- vitenam, the place, the soil --- a powdery orange - red dust that covered their boots and fatigues and faces. They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity."

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Darn humor when they take life as a game (number 17) and how they would "rain check". (10).

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The repetition of the mention of Martha

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When the people make fun someone's death and steal his dope.

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When soliders are laughing about Ted's death, represents dark humor

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There's repetition when the narrator talks about what the soilders carried on pages 14, 9, 7

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Dark humor when the soldiers made jokes about the death of the other soldiers

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Kiowa is having an existential crisis since he is trying to force himself into feeling grief,etc , but can't and is angry/frustrated. (17)

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The things that the soldiers are carrying with them, represent a certain feelings

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The story goes into great describing About he weight of the items they carry.

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Cross tells the reader a lot of information about the boy who thumb was cut off ~ Timya

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 Monty bruce.    The author uses a run on sentence to express the endless war and heat of the battle

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 Monty bruce.    The author uses a run on sentence to express the endless war and heat of the battle

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On page 4 when the man imagines him and the virgin girl touching her knees.

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Repetition when the author says what the soldiers carried

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Certain items that people carry through out the story bring them different things wether it be happiness or comfort.

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"They were not love letters but Lieutenant Cross was hoping..."

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The author tells alot of unneccessary details

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Maximalism is is shown on page 12 when the narrator over explains the thumb Norman Bowker carries with him. (Johnny)

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Maximalism is is shown on page 12 when the narrator over explains the thumb Norman Bowker carries with him. (Johnny)

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They keep repeating the phrase "boom down" after Ted lavender's death ~ Timya

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They keep repeating the phrase "boom down" after Ted lavender's death ~ Timya

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When ted lavender died they made fun of the way he died

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There always smoking

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Smoking dope

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Emphasize the speed of death multiple times

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The majority of the book talks about what the soldiers carry inside of what's actually going on during the war, who's actually talking in the story. A NON LINEAR PLOT IS IN FULL EFFEC, THERE ISN'T REALLY ANY ORGAINZED. FOR EXAMPLE, JIMMY CROSS DAYDREAMS ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO WITH MARTHA WHEN HE COMES HOME TO HIS LOVE OF LIFE.

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"He was just a kid at war, in love. He was just twenty-four years old. He couldn't help it." The quote is significant because this relates to the theme, and the whole story.

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"Now and then, however, there were times of panic, when they squealed or wanted to squeal but couldn't when they twitched and made moaning sounds and covered their heads and said dear Jesus" this quote shows the theme of the story which is war and how dreadful it can make people feel emotionally,physically, and mentally

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"He remembered kissing her good night at the dorm door. Right then, he thought, he should've done something brave....should have tied her to he bed, and touched her left knee all night long." - This makes Jimmy Croos look like he is desperate and a freak, of what he wanted to do, but he couldnt.

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When the author describes the pebble

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The author told us a lot about what they took to the war but he isn't telling us enough of what happened in the war.

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On page 40, the author (who is representing the actual author in real life) explains a job he had,declotting pigs. In such explanation, he talks about how the before the pigs got to him, they were "decapitated, split down the length of the belly,pried open, eviscerated, and strung up by the hind hocks on a high conveyor belt.", which is also maximallism, because nobody wants to know what happens at a slaughterhouse. The next page describes the actual process of declotting, and according to the author,"you'd lean forward and swing the gun up against the clots Andy squeeze the trigger, all in one motion, and the brush would whirl and water would come shooting out and you'd hear a quick splattering sound S the clots dissolved into a fine red mist."

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Imagery:  where Jimmy imagines martha and what would she be doing. This emphasizes his imagination of what he prefers to do or see than to be where he actually is.

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How the author keeps saying what the men carry

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Throughout the book so far, the author keeps describing on what each solider carries emotionally, physically, mentally and metaphorically ex. "They carried diseases, among them malaria and dysentery. They carried lice and ring worms and leeches and paddy algae and various rots and molds."

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Where the author kept repeating the weight and numbers of the items they carried

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A non linear plot is the norm for this book,switching times and perspectives in places like whenever a topic needs discussing, or the author wants to explain themselves or events in the future.

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I agree with what Dominic and Angela are saying, they do keep repeating what the carry, but what they are describing is everything physical, and how much they weigh. Over and over again.

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They would repeate what each of them physically carried and what each object weighed.

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Nobody seems to talk about the carrying motif, how the book repeatedly talks about what they carry, not only physically,but emotionally and mentally.

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When JImmy described the time on the beach that he wanted to do with. HE described the water, and the sound. In other words he described really well what he wanted to do with her and their dates

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During the beginning of the story when Jimmy was describing the soilders, they keep talking about TEd LAvender being shot, and what his last days were

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Zariah//Visual: Where leuinant cross was describing Martha "a sun and waves and gentle winds, all love and brightness"(p.8)

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Zariah//Visual: Where leuinant cross was describing Martha "a sun and waves and gentle winds, all love and brightness"(p.8)

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When jimmy would read the letters and imagine them to escape the war.

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Repetition: Where they keep mentioning Ted Lavendar and how he died. Also how one of the characters explain how it just happened, it was boom and fell.