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This is the first 1,000 characters of 2229 words (8.92 pages) in the essay titled Decisions1 Decisions are an inevitable part of life. The effects of our decisions that we make will have a significant impact on our lives. In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien was faced with a critical decision. My senior year of high school, I too was faced with a decision that would effect where I would go, what I would do, and who I’d be with. Every senior in high school was faced with this same big “Senior Decision” of which college to choose. We all realized quickly that there were so many choices out there and what seemed like so little time to choose.In the novel, The Things They Carried, O’Brien wrote about the decision of whether to stay in the United States, face the draft and fight for something that he felt was against his morals, or to run to Canada to escape from the pressures of the draft and bring shame and humiliation to his family and town. When old man Elroy took O’Brien out on the boat on the Rainy River to Canada and gave him the chance to flee, O’Brien just sat there and couldn’t. The old man started fishing like nothing was different. O’Brien sat there as his life started to flash before him. He saw himself at six dressed up as a cowboy, at twelve he was a short stop, and at sixteen he was all dressed up for his first prom. On the shoreline of the Rainy River, he saw hallucinations of his family, the Chamber of Commerce, old teachers, girlfriends, cheerleaders, and old buddies. He even imagined that he saw people that had no major impact on his... |
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Keywords: tim obrien, united states senate, rainy river, last survivor, abraham lincoln, things they carried, decisions, canada, shame and humiliation, critical decision, old buddies, significant impact, elroy, american civil war, hallucinations, morals