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Eugene Ciesla
English AP 11
31 August 2014
The Hardest Choices We Don’t Make
To have to make a choice that will change the rest of your life is one of the hardest things to face.
In Tim O’Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried, this is precisely what he is talking about.
The chapter titled “On the Rainy River” is the point in the story where Tim needs to decide whether he will go into the war he doesn’t believe in or run away and escape to Canada.
This chapter is only about his decision but it becomes so much more to the reader by O’Brien’s use of a variety of ways to make his language dramatize the situation.
The author starts this passage off by drawing a picture.
Right from the start the writing shows that even the elements are against O’Brien.
He is headed towards Canada and there is a breeze coming from the north along with a fast current.
These elements show that everything is working against him to make him stay.
Tim also describes how “All around us, I remember, there was a vastness to the world, an unpeopled rawness, just the trees and sky and the water reaching out to nowhere.”
The reader can feel that he is scared of the unknown beyond him.
He starts to focus, and his view of the “vastness” gets narrowed so much that he can “see the tiny red berries on the bushes.”
He talks about how he could see all of the tiniest details over on shore.
This narrowing and focus is him showing exactly what he wants to do.
Of his choices, this is the one he wants.
Something changes at the end of his second paragraph.
He changes verb tense.
He says “I could see” and then “I could’ve done it.”
This is the first place that he shows that his decision is made.
Later in the reading he moves from describing the scene to talking about himself.
He talks a lot about the tightness in his chest.
He felt a “terrible squeezing pressure” inside him.
This pressure was the weight of the decision on him.
He is setting himself into the story then...
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Theme/Thesis for the text talk: Tim O’Brien has spent his life and his career as a writer finding redemption for the “cowardice” he mentions in “On the Rainy River”.
He wants the reader to believe that having the courage to say “no” to injustice is the only way to make that injustice end.
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When the text talk has concluded, the students will be able to understand that Tim O’Brien
regrets his ultimate decision to go to war, and that it is the responsibility of those who recognize injustice to stand against it even in the face of shame and exile. The students will recall other examples of people exhibiting the courage to stand against unjust laws.
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