Presentation Charles Gray
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Am erican Born inW orthingtonM innesotaO ctober 1,1946 Graduatedin 1968 w ith a BA in Political Science D rafted and assigned to 3 rd Platoon, A Co., 5 th batt. 46 th Inf., Tim O Brien tour ofduty1968-70 Vietnam Veteran GraduatestudentatHarvard/ Internship at W ashington Post/ N ew Paper Reporter. N ovelist, shortstory w riter
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Transcript of Presentation Charles Gray
AmericanBorn in Worthington Minnesota October 1,1946Graduated in 1968 with a BA in Political Science Drafted and assigned to 3rd Platoon, A Co., 5th batt. 46th
Inf., Tim O Brien tour of duty 1968-70 Vietnam VeteranGraduate student at Harvard/ Internship at Washington Post/ New Paper Reporter.Novelist, short story writer
Harvard University
Macalester College
The peoples that Influences : Tim O’Brien
F. Scott Fitzgerald Tony MorrisonThe Hardy Boys
family Vietnam War
"Though it’s odd, you’re never more alive than when you’re almost dead." –Tim O'Brien
duplicated 1973
O’ Brien Was a infantry Foot soldier 3rd’ Brien platoon , Alpha Co,5th Batt . 46th Inf.
duplicated January 1978
J uly , J uly (2002)
Conclusion
Tim O Brien isn’t just another Author, he’s a survivor of one of the world most controversial war’s. Tim O’ Brien lived to tell the world about the Vietnam war and the men how fought and die in it .The mixture of fictional and non-fictional stories allowed O’ Brien reader’s to open their mind’s and see the things they could not have imagine without his experiences there to tell. Tim O’ Brien is truly a novelists with a soul to tell the raw truth in it entirely to the world .
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