THE SEARCH FOR LOVE AND FEMININE IDENTITY IN THE WAR LITERATURE OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND TIM O’BRIEN

Discovery of love and women's identity in war literature between ERNEST HEMINGWAY and TIM O-BRIEN

In order to satisfy the requirements of doctoral course, the paper was submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Heather Renee Ross: Pursuit of love and women's identity in war literature between Ernest Hemingway and Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien showed the character marked by the Vietnam War many times. To the veteran who struggled to adapt himself to his hometown for the first time from the infantry, his hero brought complicated problems of war to anti-war activists who were addicted to death. O'Brien's opening a new door to his career began in his childhood. One day, he ran away from the minor league shame to the Worthington library in Minnesota. So he found his book in Little League and soothed himself by writing imitation. Other books in the library have become a way to escape "stupidity and frustration", and it is the way for O'Reien's rich imagination. O'Brien noticed that this novel would let him experience the "he should or should be"

Bao Nin's "sorrow of war" is a countermeasure against American literature in the Vietnam War. But in contrast to Tim O'Brien's 'carrying', the sorrow of war is strangely similar but different at the same time. From the point of post colonialism, we have to consider two pieces of work to obtain an accurate image of the war. Because the sorrow of war is real, it is a good confrontation. Tim O'Brien wrote as follows. "... Through absolute uncompromising loyalty to obscenity and evil, you can tell the story of real war." (O'Brien, 42) Succeeded. Vietnamese people ... Read more

Over the centuries, we have left a wonderful heritage of history and influence on the heritage of war. "The truth is contradictory" (87), people can not be generalized, so Tim O'Brien has reversed the possibility of any absolute truth about war. During the war, soldiers can also find "at the same time as terrorism and trauma" essential, something new, deep, shocking world, and unnamed "(86). As O'Brien called O'Brien in another story, they may fall in love with this land and war with "harmony of sound, shape, and proportion" (87). Sweet Heart. "Song Tra Bong.- Obviously traumatic influences still exist, but the narrator tries to convey all real stories to them as they possibly exist