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The author, Tim O'Brien, managed to write a completely fictional, yet convincing story. O'Brien has said that the entire story was fiction and was not based on actual events, but the reader can't help but think otherwise. O'Brien does an amazing job of making the reader question the validity of "The Things They Carried"

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The American Dream is supposed to be a great thing, but it wasn't in this case. The American Dream led to Willy's demise; that not only affected him, but his family, friends, and career.
In this instance the American Dream turned into more of an American Nightmare.

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"What happens to a dream deferred?" (Hughes 80)
This poem is enlivened by the author, Langston Hughes', use of similes. The descriptive nature of the similes brings an automatic image to your mind.
For instance,
"Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?"
(Hughes 80).

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"Negro" by Langston Hughes begins each stanza with the word "I", totaling six times. Yet, "I" does not refer to Hughes; it refers to every member of the African American community. Hughes is proud of his heritage and encourages other African Americans to be proud too.
"I am a Negro
Black as the night is black
Black like the depths of my Africa" (Hughes 928).

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A fight over the family quilts. This story contains three major characters who are African American, Mama, Dee, and Maggie. All have been affected by discrimination, but I feel as if there is possible discrimination amongst themselves. Mama and Maggie who have very little education and the Dee who is educated.

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This story illustrates the underlying discrimination of races simply based on color alone. The African American brownie group automatically hates the white brownie group. Only to find out that the white groups consists of special needs white children. A lack of communication and involvement between whites and blacks aids in discrimination; even if it is not intended to do so.

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A short trip to a high class toy store illustrates the societal divide and hidden racism that is present. Like is mentioned in the story, everyone should have an equal chance at success and should not be defined by the neighborhood they live in or the color of their skin. Everyone deserves an equal chance.

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A young eager African American teenager is blind to the fact that white men do not look at him as equal, even if they praise his intelligence. He's blind to the fact that they attempt to control his life in everyway. This story brings to light the eagerness for equality.

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An ill woman moves into a mansion with a giant bedroom. Everything is great except one thing, the yellow wallpaper. The woman sees another woman trapped behind the ugly yellow wallpaper. Only to find out that the woman trapped is actually herself. She becomes controlled by the wallpaper, and eventually breaks through to creep about the mansion as she pleases. She is finally free.

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Imagine a pretty, old farmhouse. A beautiful couple who have lived there forever. This is not the case. This story detailed a murder investigation that occurred at the farmhouse. It was the husband and wife. The wife apparently killed her husband. Which prompts the question. What will drive you to murder?

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The Sherriff knocks on the door. He enters to find a man dead. His wife proclaiming that he had been murdered while she was sleeping. In fact, he was gruesomely strangled. Friends of the wife find the wife's bird upstairs in its cage. The bird had also been strangled. The evidence was hidden so that there would be no evidence to point to Mrs. Wright as the murderer.

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A mother's list of things taught to her daughter, but also a list of things she disapproves of. The punctuation shows the mother (author) is in a hurry to tell her daughter before it's too late. If only the daughter will listen... This story shows a mother's love for her daughter. To teach her before it's too late.

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"Story of An Hour"
A woman with a heart condition learns of the death of her husband. She is sad, but also feels free. This freedom doesn't last long when she opens the door and there stands her husband. The one who was thought to be dead is now alive, and the one alive is now dead.