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Student’s Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Levi and O`Brien’s storybooks’ Settings in Understanding Themes The storybooks, If This Is a Man and The Things They Carried by Primo Levi and Tim O`Brien respectively have a lot in common in term of themes. In If This Is a Man, Levi gives the narration in a first-person language as he shares his account during his arrest and detention at Auschwitz detention camp. The Things They Carried, on the other hand, is a story by an unnamed narrator who gives, in third person language, an account about the actions and thoughts of Jimmy Cross, an Army Lieutenant who was in active duty during the Vietnam War. All through, the settings of both If This Is a Man and The Things They Carried play a big role in helping readers understand the themes or central ideas. O`Brien`s The Things They Carried is set majorly in a war-torn zone during the time of the Vietnam War. The warfare, in this case, is not about violence and using tactics or heroism. It is made up of intervals of boredom and other times of true terror. This is also the case in Levi`s If This Is a Man. In his description on how a night was while at the camps, he says, “one wakes up every moment, frozen with terror, shaking in every limb under the impression of order, shouted out by a voice full of anger in a language not understood” (Levi 69). Dehumanization of people is also a common theme between the two individual books. The violent actions that the soldiers are involved in and the things they carried mentally and physically have a negative effect on the soldiers’ well-being, showing that O`Brien is of the notion that nothing good comes as a result of war for
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