http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/ en-us 2003-12-16T04:17:06-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002276.html Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato and Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky present two opposite characters coping with the effects of war. The difference between Paul Berlin in O’Brien’s novel and Port in Bowles’s can be seen in their responses to... 4E: O'Brien 2003-12-16T04:17:06-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002267.html Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato is a psychological novel that explores the effects of the Vietnam War on the minds of its soldiers. The novel’s plot is based on the ruminations of Paul Berlin, a lone soldier on night watch,... 4E: O'Brien 2003-12-15T16:17:50-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002266.html In Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato, food helps the soldiers to alleviate the emotional pain from war. The soldiers’ purpose of war is not really to win the war, but to survive another day, and food crucially supports them.... 4E: O'Brien ktang 2003-12-15T16:11:34-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002264.html The fear of death and the purposelessness accompanied with it plague Paul Berlin’s psyche in Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato. Berlin attempts to escape his fears by using his imagination to desert the Vietnam War; however, Berlin’s flight of imagination... 4E: O'Brien 2003-12-15T16:08:49-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002263.html What Spec Four Paul Berlin wanted more than anything else in the war, was to please his father: “At the depot, when the train stopped, he would brush off his uniform and make sure all the medals were in place,... 4E: O'Brien 2003-12-15T15:42:00-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002262.html What Spec Four Paul Berlin wanted more than anything else in the war, was to please his father: “At the depot, when the train stopped, he would brush off his uniform and make sure all the medals were in place,... 2003-12-15T15:41:46-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002261.html What Spec Four Paul Berlin wanted more than anything else in the war, was to please his father: “At the depot, when the train stopped, he would brush off his uniform and make sure all the medals were in place,... 2003-12-15T15:41:42-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002260.html “What about money? Money for hotels and food and train tickets? What about passports? What about the law? Illegal entry, no documents, no military orders, no permits for all the weaponry? What about police and customs agents?” (page 125). Throughout... 4E: O'Brien 2003-12-15T14:04:57-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002259.html Whether traveling for business, pleasure, or service, Americans abroad can often be put in an uneasy situation. One method of easing this tension is to avoid the current situation and instead become involved in a different story altogether. The... 4E: O'Brien 2003-12-15T13:38:54-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002258.html In Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato, the land plays a significant role, especially for Spec Four Paul Berlin. In the wider scope, during the Vietnam War, the land became the ultimate enemy of the American GI’s. Unpredictable, foreign, and rigid,... 4E: O'Brien 2003-12-15T13:06:36-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002256.html War Stories “What Paul Berlin knew best was the land…He knew the dangerous places and he knew the safe places” (p250). The soldiers of the Third Squad say the land in Nam is their enemy. However, they are misled and... 4E: O'Brien 2003-12-15T12:55:15-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002255.html In Going After Cacciato, every man dies alone. Every death is unique, and every death brings relief to the living. After Buff’s death, Paul Berlin “couldn’t fake sadness. It had to be there. If it wasn’t there you couldn’t fake... 4E: O'Brien 2003-12-15T12:44:52-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002254.html The United States passport is one of the most popular symbols of American travel abroad. Passports allow travelers to truly assume Western identities and label them as foreigners; traveling without a passport is somewhat suspect, if not illegal. As the... 4E: O'Brien 2003-12-15T12:10:36-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002253.html As portrayed in Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien, the Vietnam War is brutal and intense. The soldiers are constantly bombarded with images of violence, death, and cruelty. They live helplessly in horrifying conditions: “the rain fed fungus that... 4E: O'Brien 2003-12-15T10:33:21-05:00 http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/courses/f03/eng015/archives/002251.html Going After Cacciato is an adventure novel about war. Tim O’Brien’s character Paul Berlin is torn between two opposing forces: the desire to please his father and the desire to achieve inner peace. Berlin jumps in and out of... 4E: O'Brien aplowman 2003-12-14T21:17:35-05:00