My Final Paper

by Minhaj ~ December 5th, 2010. Filed under: Uncategorized.

For my final paper I will be writing about courage and what literature says about courage. I will focus on the argument that courageous acts during war are motivated by fear. I will be analyzing various characters from movies and stories and describe their acts of courage and how fear played a part in motivating them to act in such a courageous way. I will be focusing on the Vietnam War because out of all the wars that we have read about, the Vietnam War is the one that interests me the most.

For my paper I will be focusing on a few sources. I will draw examples from Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried (“Speaking of Courage” and “On the Rainy River”). I will also analyze an interview of Tim O’Brien from a Journal called Contemporary Literature. I will most likely use two movies as a reference. One will be “Platoon” and the other will be “Full Metal Jacket.” Both are movies about the Vietnam War and deal with the issues of courage.

Working Bibliography:

O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried: a Work of Fiction. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Print.

Naparsteck, Martin. “An Interview with Tim O’Brien.” Contemporary Literature 32.1 (1991): 1-11. JSTOR. Web. 5 Dec. 2010.

Full Metal Jacket. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Prod. Stanley Kubrick. By Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford. Perf. Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Lee Ermey. Warner Bros., 1987. DVD.

Platoon. Dir. Oliver Stone. An Orion Pictures Release, 1986. DVD.

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4 Responses to My Final Paper

  1. llentine
    December 7th, 2010 at 9:47 am

    The topic seems interesting, but I don’t think it is necessary to use two movies. I believe that we went over in class what it means to be courageous in war a while ago, with either the Freud reading or Clausewitz. Perhaps try to use one of those readings as well? Also, you may come across problems with focus on one particular war. Since courage, or lack there of, could be found in any war that is fought, you may want to broaden your focus point to wars in general. Otherwise, I like the topic and think this will make an interesting paper.

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