The Things they carried Portfolio :: essays research papers

Am publications Tarriq Hansrajh06/07/05 4thEntry 1 In my pocketsCell border 5ozKeys 2ozW each(prenominal)et 3ozIn my backpackSpanish halt 5lbsTrig book 9lbs4 1 inch binders 12lbsUSHAP notebook 1lbOther misc. items 1.5lbsTotal pitch 29lbs 10ozThis estimate does not surprise me at all because when I theorize about all the work that we have to do I rally all the textbooks that we have to carry around. In addition sometimes I come home with my back aching, but thats usually l peerless(prenominal) when I carry my USHAP notebook with me as wellAm Literature Tarriq Hansrajh06/07/054thEntry 2 two-timer Kiley was born sour grass Kiley on April 7 1939 in Albany, New York to Marie and Charlie Kiley. At bestride 11 dog was given the nickname Rat by one of his aces when they were walking home from school one day when apparently Bob fell into a large open dumpster and when he emerged he had a few strings of spaghetti sticking out of the back of his pants. The nickname stuck wit h him all the way to his adulthood. Rat graduated from Creekside High School in 1957. He did not want to attend college right away but cute to work in one of the factories in his home town to prepare some money to pay for college. Even then his co-workers called him Rat. deuce years later he had managed to save ten thousand clam to put toward his college tuition but unfortunately he was drafted just handle the rest of the men his age who were not attending college. When he was in Vietnam Rat encountered many terrible situations and was faced with severe heart brook when his best friend Curt Lemon is killed by a landmine. Rat was devastated by this terrible event and felt an extreme sense of aloneness especially when he wrote a letter to Curts babe and she never responded. Rat fought through the rest of the war seeing too many tragedies that are too horrible to mention here and when he returned to his family in 1973, two years before the war ended they put up his behavior ve ry strange. They found that he was not the same individual that he was before and eventually the found that he had gone tout ensemble insane. Rat would mumble things to himself and would scream as if he saw his friend Curt being killed right in front of him.