English A Language and Literature HL WT2 (19/20)

본 문서는 2019년도에 작성한 English A Lang & Lit HL Written Task 2입니다.

주제는 ‘How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?’ 이며 The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien) 을 분석하였습니다.

[본문내용]

The characters in Tim O’Brien’s short story collection The Things They Carried each reflect unique dispositions of American soldiers in the Vietnam War. This essay will discuss how O’Brien represents the soldiers as conflicted before the war, absentminded during combat, and remorseful after the war, to censure
the government of its involvement in the war and revitalize America’s awareness on the affliction that yet dwells within the soldiers. It will analyze the representation of the soldiers addressing specific short stories within a temporal framework to demonstrate the meaning of the war for the soldiers from a wider scope of history.
Through the protagonist, Tim O’Brien, of “On the Rainy River”, the author represents soldiers in the Vietnam War as morally conflicted in face of the draft. The story is largely composed of internal dialogue, where the protagonist constantly expresses doubt about the war. For instance, he questions, “Was it a civil war? Who started it, and when, and why?” (O’Brien 38)…

• 총 페이지수: 5 pages
• 과목명: English A
• 주제: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?
• The file is in PDF format.