The Things They Carried

Summary: During this semester my favorite reading had to be the chapter "the Things They Carried" in the book The Things They Carried. In this chapter the author Tim O'Brien talks about what each soldier of a platoon carried in the Vietnam War. Each solder had there own weird safety net that they carried around with them. One of them had panty hoes, another had drugs, and the Lt. Jimmy Cross held love letters. They traveled all around Vietnam in all kinds of weather. Even though they had a ton of stuff they had carry these soldiers would take the extra pounds for their personal stuff. As the story goes on you realize that the soldiers do not only carry physical things but they carry emotional things. The people next to them are dying, and they were killing people themselves. Its an eye opening experience seeing what these men had to go through and see that the littlest things can make a difference when you are so far away from home.

Response: I am not a very good reader or writer and that is why I enjoyed reading this book/chapter because it grabbed my attention and it was easy to read. The way each chapter was its own story made it easier for me to build my own interpretations on the sties and break each story down. O'Brien had details and descriptions that made me feel like I was in Vietnam with him. I have not read too many books but this one stands out to me because it was one book that I read without having to read it over agin to understand. It was great book to relate to our writing in this class. I will recommend it to others to read and I will keep the book in my collection to read again.

Proposal for Extended Essay

I have decided to use my paper about Car Advertising-Dominating Nature to do my expansion essay. In my essay I give a variety of examples about how car advertisers and car companies are beginning to push the "green" movement of cars on people. Green being a vehicle that is is safe to the environment and a vehicle that will save you money in the long run. I also discuss the different ways that car advertisers try and target a certain group of people with their nature friendly vehicles. I believe that this will be a perfect essay for me to extend because I am able to give people an argumentative essay that clearly has two sides, it just depends what side you are on. I plan to talk more about why these car companies are starting to push the eco friendly green cars now, because they have always had them around so now why is it so important to "go green" now? I am going to use a couple different car commercials that reach the environment friendly crowed as well as the group of individuals that do not wish to trade in there power and speed in order to help preserve the environment.

keyword:

car 

car advertising 

eco friendly 

environment safe

dominating nature 

speed 

power 

green 

save the world