Compare/Contrast Bowling for columbine w/ The they carried (500 words)

The different between Bowling for Columbine and The Things They Carried is that, Bowling for Columbine shows us how weapons such as guns have been used and given to people in Colorado like if they were really safe.The Things They Carried is more about a soldier in war.

Bowling for Columbineis a documentary film in Colorado. An old man shows us the the living of Colorado citizens with weapons. He goes and does some research on the banks. He finds out that if you open an account and you receive a free weapon/gun. Then he goes ahead and opens an account and he gets a rifle. The unbelievable thing is that when he receives the gun he goes ahead and tries it out inside the bank and nothing said anything or did anything about it. This man also discuss about children. How they go ahead and do shoot-outs at their schools and also how this kids shoot at innocent people for no reason. For example a boy shoot a black student just because he was black. This man also when ahead and inspected peoples properties and he found out that every citizen in colorado keep in their house from Ten-Fifth teen guns.

The Things They Carried is about soldiers at war. It shows us how this soldiers miss their life style. For example, the ability of been able to sleep in their cozy bed. Missing their Family and Friends. It also shares about their feeling while been in war how they keep something with them all the way until the war ends.

THE THINGS I CARRY -11/29/2006-

Every morning I wake up and carry my walletin my back poket. I put my pants, long socks and my jacket because, the cold weather is unberable other wise. I pick up my folder that carries my homework and all my work that I had done last night. Then I pick up my pen and pencil and i place it in my backpack. As i get ready to leave out the front door I feel more weight on me. The weight of boredoin and tireness pushing me down. With each step closer to school, I miss my bed more and more. I carry a leave on my jacket from the tree that is a few blocks back. I start feeling the pressure of school work and running from one class to another tring to be on time for every period. I carry happyness, I carry Responsibility, I carry my social life, I carry my soul, I carry my Education in my backpack in my folder everyday until the day I die.

Quick write 1-17-07:

What do you think constitutes(makes)an enemy?

Making an enemy is almost the same way as making a new friend for the first time, the only different is that you
dislike them for the way they talk, look, or act. For example, you see a person in the street and with out even knowing
them you dislike them. Another way in making an enemy simply could start with a friendship that could end up
destroyed because, one of them either talk shit, back staved you, lies, betrayed, steals, and even competes against you
for something or someone, with out you knowing. A friendship could also end up destroyed because both of you
always disagree with each others opinions, believes, or even their ideas. You could even lose a friend because a girl or
a boy. For example, my friends Tommy and Jimmy were good friends. Tommy was with this girl name Vanessa for 3
months and Jimmy had a little crush on her but didn't told Tommy at all. So one day I found out that Tommy broke up
with Vanessa because she cheated on him with Jimmy. This is an example of betrayed/ back staving.

Comments on "The Things They Carried"

(what was it? Why did you feel/think this? Can you connect this with anything in your experience)

"There were red checkers and black checkers. The playing field was laid out in a strict grid, no tunnels or mountains or jungles. You knew where you stood. You knew the score. The pieces were out on the board, the enemy was visible, and you could watch the tactics unfolding into larger strategies. There was a winner and a loser. There were rules" - O’Brian

-I feel this was a game, a very important game.
I think this is an important game because in every game their is a winner and a loser. A game also includes rules no matter if your playing in the water or on land.
One of my personal experience,I was in a baseball team it was my team agains the "enemies." One of us haded to be the winner or the loser. It was duff with rules but thats how the game goes.!!!

“It was a sad scene when the choppers came to take us away. Jimmy Cross gave the old poppa-san a hug. Mitchell Sanders and Lee Strunk loaded him up with boxes of C-rations” - O’Brian

-It was a war. I feel this is a war because Mitchell Sanders and Lee Strunk load up with C-rations to servive. No I can't connect my own experience with it.