Question

What type of 3 lies are found in BOTH the poem "Do Not Weep Maiden, War is Kind" by Stephen Crane and the story "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien?

- Name the three lies found in both of the texts.
- For each lie found in both texts, make sure to state what type of lie it is (facade, the white lie, omission, etc.)
- Provide two pieces of textual evidence of where you found the same type of lie. (1 piece of evidence from the poem) (1 piece of evidence from the story)(there should be six pieces of evidence in total)

Answer 1

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→ Stephen Crane's five-stanza poem titled 'War is Kind' has an ironic tone. ... Stephen Crane's poem, “Do not weep, maiden, War is kind”, brought me some ... The Things They Carried is a novel about the Vietnam War, which America was ... Character "Tim O'Brien," a middle-aged writer, recalls when, many years after the war.

Answer 2

"Do not weep / War is kind" is repeated at the end of the first, third, and last stanzas, whereas the phrases "These men were born to drill and die" and "A field where a thousand corpses lie" are duplicated in the second and fourth stanzas.

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