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O'Brien's “On the Rainy River”
Courage. An ambiguous word used to describe the motive behind numerous acts, encompassing a variety of definitions. Courage manifests itself in many different forms, most commonly, acts of physical courage; pushing the body into an act of bravery. Risking death to save a stranger from a bu ....
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.... 1968, his emotions range from rage to self-pity. A promising 21 years of age, he angrily perceives himself as too good for the war.
“I was above it. I had the world dicked – Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude and president of the student body and a full-ride scholarship for grad studies at Harvard. A mistake, maybe – a foul-up in the paperwork. I was no soldier.”
And, at the center of his reaction, existed a strong pulse of fear. O’Brien equated war with slaughter and was terrified of dying, especially in what he viewed as the “wrong war”. He felt that the ....
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