The things They CarriedOrder Description“Much like Claude McKay and Allen Ginsberg before him, Tim O’Brien demonstrates that the realities of 20th-century America were far different from the perception of 20th-century America for those who lived there.”Discuss this statement with reference to Tim O’Brien’s The Things We Carried.Your answer must be approximately 1000 words. The threshold is 10% either side of the given word limit (This means your answer must be between 900-1100 words long).Answers that are considerably above or below this threshold will be deducted marks accordingly.It must adhere to MLA standards in terms of quotations from the text.You must cite TWO secondary sources from either the library (i.e. a published text), JSTOR or Project Muse.The use of sources such as Wikipedia, Gradesaver, Sparknotes, or anything similar, which are not peer-reviewed academically viable sources, will result in the deduction of marks.List your sources in a small bibliography at the end of your paper. Your bibliography must adhere to MLA standards.Students who plagiarize, or who attempt to submit the work of others as their own, will be awarded a ZERO for this assignment.Answers must be written in Times New Roman, font size 12, double line spacing.– make sure to use Tim O’brien book ” the things they carried” and two other sources.– make sure that my assignment is out of plagiarism .

Consider the following passage from two editions of The Things They Carried:
(a) Twenty years. A lot like yesterday, a lot like never. In a way, maybe, I’d gone under with Kiowa, and now after two decades I’d finally worked my way out. A hot afternoon, a bright August sun, and the war was over (page 187 of the 2000 edition).
(b) Twenty years. A lot like yesterday, a lot like never. In a way, maybe, I’d gone under with Kiowa, and now after two decades I’d mostly worked my way out. A hot afternoon, a bright August sun, and the war was over (page 178 of the 2009 edition).
Answer the following questions in your essay:
1)      Why do you think Tim O’Brien changed the word “finally” to “mostly”? What does his changing that one word imply about the lasting effects of war and the fragile nature of identity? Identify one other passage from the novel, The Things They Carried, that illustrates this and explain why you chose that passage?
2)      Referring to one or more of the poems by Brian Turner, Marvin Bell, and Scott Hightower, discuss the author(s) treatment of war’s lasting effects in their poem(s). What are the similarities and differences in terms of the language and the content?