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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 burning buil ....
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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 there were instances in ....
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