Rolondo Garza
http://illyria.com/tosites.html
One of the links found on this website was the biography on Tim O'Brien.
he was from a small town in Minnesota. Born October 1, 1946. Later graduated
at Macalister College in 1968. Received notice to go to Vietnam. After Nam
worked as a newspaper place, later wrote books like "The Things They
Carried".
link number#2
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?TS=989958786&Did=000000015676306&Mtd=1&Fmt=3&...
This link is from the Seattle post intelligencer where he makes a guest
appearance at Nathan hale high school. Young Students start asking this
famous author questions pertaining to his novel "The Things They
Carried"
one student asks what was going thru his mind when he received the draft
notice. "But as I wrote in "The Things They Carried," I went to
war because
I was embarrassed not to go. I had a girlfriend and wanted her to think I
was brave. it was stupid...I've said before that I was a coward, which is a
hard thing to say. The brave thing for me to do was to go to Canada or jail.
I copped out; I went to Vietnam. Basically described his fears and the
purpose of writing the novel while visiting.
Both of these I used in my research paper and will be in importance to the
presentation as well. Bye have a good weekend.
Jacob Walters
http://www.illyria.com/tobbio.html
This is a short little biography that gives some information about how Tim
grew up in a small town outside Minnesota and was born on October 1st 1946.
It also explains how O'Brien was against the war, but he eventually decided
to go to war, and was part of the division that was involved in the My Lai
Massacre in 1968, which turned out to be an inspiration for one of his books,
"In the Lake of the Woods."
After returning from the war, he went onto graduate at Harvard and eventually
dropped out to take up an internship at the Washington Post.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20/specials/obrien-carried.html
This is a review of Tim O'Brien's book "The Things They Carried" by
Robert R. Harris of the New York Times, and it also contains some little phrases
from O'Brien.
Harris explains that the story is about a Lieutenant in Vietnam in charge of
a good amount of men, that just happen to die around him all the time, one of
which he feels is his responsibility. He also talks about how the story is about
not only the physical things the soldiers carry, but the emotional things that
they carry as well.
Harris liked the novel because it gave a true sense of the war that is
missing from history books and the such.
http://illyria.com
This site has a lot to offer. You can see author, Tim O'Brien's
picture. There is one of him present day and there is one of him when he was
younger in Vietnam. There is also a biography on O'Brien. For those
interested you can go to a reader's forum and discuss things with other
readers and fans. There are intereviews and also bibliographys. If you like
the book you can purchase this on this site and there are Cliff notes.
http://wwwnytimes.com/98/09/20/specials/obrien/html
This site has lot's of stuff in it too, but I didn't think it had as
much to offer as the one above. This site as summary of O'Briens books,
including "The Things They Carried". There is an article by Robert H.
Harris, called "Too Embarrassed tp Kill". There are articles about and
by Tim
O'Brien. There is also some related links offered.
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