Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Obriens Motives :GABRIELLA
Obriens purpose in writing this novel was to keep the soldiers alive. This story is fiction but in end ressults obriens purpose was too teach the readers how to keep dear memories alive. In "lives of the dead" obriens character Linda was dead but in his dreams she would say amazing things like "well right now, im not dead. but when i am its like... i dont know, i guess its like being inside a book that nobodys reading."(TTTC 232) this relation that obrien made with the book is that heis telling a story and that having himself in it has made him eternal. At the end of lives of the dead he says he realized he was trying to keep timmy alive by telling these stories well now by creating a story with timmy in it he know made the life of timmy and therefor tim everlasting. Obriens purpose is to teach the reader how to make their dreams, deepest wishes, and non existing ideas real and alive "im young and happy. I'll never die"(TTTC 233).
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When you say the reader can make "dreams, deepest wishes, and non existing ideas real and alive", do you mean that this is all included in keeping Yourself alive through storytelling? I can understand keeping memories and people alive, but can't think of an example of a nonexistent idea or dream that he kept alive (besides the Linda dreams, but those are literal dreams).
ReplyDeleteWould you say that that is the side-benefit for Tim? I like your idea of advising the reader that they may have the same ability, and that storytelling is an aspect of self-preservation as much as anything else. Well said.
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