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Introduction

Tim O’Brien’s memoir-style novel, The Things They Carried, purports to recount the narrator’s, also named Tim O’Brien, experiences as a soldier in the VietNam war. Throughout the work, the narrator constructs narrative over narrative that fictionalizes a reality, or in the very Postmodernist sense, realizes the fictionality of war. In the fragmentation, black humor, and poioumena, O’Brien trusts his audience will find Truth, or at least a truth from war’s brutality.

Summary of Element One - Fragmentation

Postmodern Fragmentation depicts a metaphysically unfounded, chaotic universe. It can occur in language, sentence structure or grammar, but O'Brien uses it as part of his narrative technique.

Links to Postmodernism in The Things They Carried

**Here is where you include one or two examples from TTTC.

These should be RR embedded with L2 Analysis.**

~Ima's Model Topic Sentence: O'brien redistributes pieces of hyperreality and surrealism with his fragmented narrator's tales in "How to Tell a True War Story" and "Speaking of Courage." Now you can Rolls Royce embed "your text evidence from The Things They Carried --use your cards!--" followed by a parenthetical citation (O'Brien 65). Follow evidence with an L2 Mechanical Analysis (What, How, Why) of the quote's Postmodern element & its role in your argument.

Links to Postmodern Media Source(s)

~Alexandra Petri, “Cake, In the Manner of School Reopening Guidance” The Washington Post

**Here is where you can include an example from one of our prep sources. You can copy/paste your comment/digital elements from the Postmodernist Media section. **

My Take

**Here is 1-2 sentences linking your Postmodernism evidence from TTTC to this source.

Link this back to your overall argument (your thesis).**

~Ima selected a nonsensical bit of fragmented reasoning in "Cake" to compare with the fragmentation in her first The Things They Carried example.

Summary of Element Two - Black Humor

Postmodernist Black Humor means to treat serious subjects in a

playful and humorous way, like O'Brien's account of the gallows humor his platoon uses when they witness or take part in the war's atrocities.

Links to Postmodernism in The Things They Carried

**Here is where you include one or two examples from TTTC. These should be RR embedded with L2 Analysis. **

Links to Postmodern Media Source(s)

**Here is where you can include an example from one of our prep sources. You can copy/paste your comment/digital elements from the Postmodernist Media section. **

Buffalo Springfield, “For What It’s Worth” Buffalo Springfield

This is also an excellent opportunity to explain what your example is about and why you selected it.

My Take

**Here is 1-2 sentences linking your Postmodernism evidence from TTTC to this source.

Link this back to your overall argument (your thesis).*

Summary of Element Three - Poioumena

Links to Postmodernism in The Things They Carried

**Here is where you include one or two examples from TTTC. These should be RR embedded with L2 Analysis. **

Links to Postmodern Media Source(s)

Tool, “Schism” Lateralus

**Here is where you can include an example from one of our prep sources. You can copy/paste your comment/digital elements from the Postmodernist Media section. **

My Take

1-2 sentences linking your Postmodernism evidence from TTTC to your prep source.

Conclusion

As each genre reveals, brutality and beauty often intermingle. The human experience, it seems, involves finding purpose amidst fragmented, conflicting narratives.

Works Cited

Alphabetized, MLA Formatted Citations:

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