Essay About Tim Obrien And Own Emotions

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In the course of our lifetime we are caught in situations that we truly dont want to be in.
When all is going well you occasionally get that bump in the road and it seems as if all is
disrupted. There are times when things become unavoidable to the point where we are left with
two choices, to run, or to go through with it. Tim OBrien found himself somewhere he never
thought he would be, Minnesota. He was on the run from that infamous little slip of paper, his
draft note. Tim was to be a soldier in the Vietnam War and he could not possibly imagine
anything worse. His world had suddenly come to a complete halt and he simply could not
bring himself to confront anyone or anything. This force that compels us to do the unthinkable
is our own emotions resulting from what we think other people will speculate.
In this chapter we learn a little more about the narrator as a person and the most
important passage of this section, I believe was on page 59. “All those eyes on me-the town,
the whole universe- and I couldnt risk the embarrassment. It was as if there was an audience to
my lifeTraitor They yelled. Turncoat Pussy I felt myself blush. I couldnt tolerate it…
I couldnt make myself brave. It had nothing to do with morality. Embarrassment, thats all