Where Have You Gone Charming Billy Character Analysis

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A Soldier's Experience What Tim O'Brien wants his readers to understand about war is that, sometimes a true story about war can lead to an emotional state about a soldier’s experience. Soldier’s have to face difficult times when engaging into battle. Other stories about war could be made up and still have the characters experience the war on what is happening around them or what will happen. Tim O’Brien’s short story, “Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy,” takes place in the Vietnam war. The main character Paul Berlin, goes through emotional trauma while he was fighting in the battlefield. Paul’s emotional trauma began when he experienced Billy (Paul’s ally) extremely terrified that it caused Billy his life, due to a heart attack. Tim O’Brien
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In “Where Have You Gone Charming Billy” by Tim O’Brien, an American novelist, the setting creates a few different conflicts for the characters. One problem the setting presents is that it makes the characters physically uncomfortable. The characters “[scraped their] knees, [groped] as though blind, and [their] boots sank into the thick paddy”(O’Brien 1) because it was dark and sloppy. This was an inconvenience and nuisance; consequently, the characters were constantly uncomfortable. Not only did…

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