MAN OF WAR AND WAR IN THE WORKS OF TIM O’BRIAN

• Main Authors: E. E. Belova, V. A. Minasyan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University 2017-09-01
• Series: Вестник Мининского университета
• Subjects: man of war; verbalization of “war” notion; synonym; simile; repetition; colloquial speech
• Online Access: https://vestnik.mininuniver.ru/jour/article/view/161

This article considers the problem of cruelty, mercilessness and inhumanity of war, revealed in the collection of stories « The Things They Carried » by the American writer Tim O’Brian. Being the psychological echo of the war the book displays ruthlessness and bloodiness of war acts by means of the language. The use of synonyms, epithets and intensifiers, numerous similes, emotive words of sub-neutral style, parcelling, polysyndeton in a long line of homogeneous parts, colloquial speech genuinely renders the psychological state of soldiers at the Vietnamese War. Inner sufferings of the protagonist are verbalized with the words of the strong emotional charge, sub-colloquial words, lexical and syntactic repetition, well-proportioned rhythmic pattern, and other expressive means of the language. The essence of the book is to describe the tremendous consequences and hardships of the war, its serious imprint on the mind of the people, values reconsidered in the face of death, ordeal of the people’s fate.