Then write a post that explains how this picture is a metaphor for your book--either The Things They Carried or The Yellow Birds.
Be sure to give details to support your explanation.
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Then write a post that explains how this picture is a metaphor for your book--either The Things They Carried or The Yellow Birds.
Be sure to give details to support your explanation.
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This picture displays that of two things that have grown together. They spent so much time transforming with each other that their lives have grown intertwined. Two completely different things that have made an impact on the other. The bike came into the tree's life when it was very small and just starting out. As the tree grew bigger, the bike got stuck in the life of the tree. The tree grew on much bigger and taller, as the bike grew older it got more rusted and bent. Together they form this picture of being as one.
This post can be a metaphor for the book The Things They Carried. The Vietnam war was something that had a huge impact on everyone. The soldiers that went to war were impacted greatly. Even for soldiers that did not want to go, the war became such a huge part of their lives that they could not get rid of it. O'Brien is a very good example of that. He tried to escape the war and did not want to go so badly, to the extent that he tried to go to Canada. But later on when he is shot and taken out of war, he ends up missing being in the bush with his comrades and it drives him mad. Then, twenty years later, he still writes about war books. The war is the bike that grew into the soldiers, the tree.
B. Geiss 5/6 Period
The picture shows two totally different things growing together as one. Over time the bike sat there for so long that a tree grew through the bike. Both the tree and the bike made an impact on each other. This picture is a metaphor for “The Things They Carried” because all of the men in the book were totally different people. For instance two of the soldiers hated each other and actually got in a physical fight. After that fight they became best friends, they put their differences aside and came together. Not one of those soldiers were same, like the tree and the bike. Sometimes the soldiers acted in the same manner because they had to and in order to work and help each other survive. The tree and bike are grown together as one because they had to. The tree couldn’t just grow somewhere else and the bike could not just ride away be itself.
~Becca Gardella 5/6 Period
The image displayed has an odd effect on the viewer, being that you don't see a bike in a tree everyday. What is interesting about this picture is that many may see a relationship between the two objects, yet there is a stronger message that can also be seen. The tree had to be there first, in order for the bike to get stuck inside of it and grow around it. From there, something stationary was willingly making something mobile to work with it and stay with it. The bike has every able opportunity to move, since it has wheels, but it chooses to stay in one place. This relationship can be seen as a metaphor for the novel "The Yellow Birds" since the main character Bartle chose to join the military and fight in Iraq. He had every ample opportunity to leave the option behind, yet he chose to go. Just like how someone could have removed the bike from the tree in it's earlier stages of growth. And once it grows on someone, they can't get out of it. Bartle did survive the war, but the experiences and trauma from it were everlasting. He imagines having rifles with him when he wakes up from sleeping, and when he is sleeping he also dreams about life and how he chose to live it. This can compare to the picture because the bike has no choice but to accept where it is and where it will stay.
Gino Romito
3rd Period
This picture displays leaving things behind. We all mature, grow up and leave things behind from our older life. This shows leaving something behind to and as time goes on, it never goes away its always there. Sort of like a memory.
This can be related to Yellow birds as Bartle is jumping out of places from Iraq, Germany, New Jeresy and his hometown in Virginia. He left apart of him behind in each place, making them memory's.
Danial Lea 1st Period
I notice the irony of the attention drawing rusted bike that is contained inside of an old tree, but behind that is a very pleasurable looking setting. The tree looks to be there mistakenly, as it had no choice of where it would grow since it is a tree. This relates to The Things They Carried because pretty much all of the soldiers that were sent to fight in Vietnam, were mostly young men that weren't even fully grown yet. That tree is the same way in that it still will be growing until it's eventual death. The bike stuck inside the tree is representative of a life obstacle that will unfortunately remain there forever. It is similar to the experience like the death of a comrade, or any other form of unbearable things that could be seen during war. Finally, the nice background on the other side shows the feeedom from the awful setting of war, when you can return your desired lifestyle.
In this picture, the bike has become one with the tree. This could symbolize leaving something behind as one takes on bigger and better experiences. This shows how people see through different lenses because from a different view they might be able to see it in a different way, mean something new. This relates to Yellow Birds because every time Bartle moves he leaves something behind traveling from place to place and always moving. If someone always looks at a situation one way, they might not experience how other people do.
N. Pozna 5/6
When the tree was just starting to grow, this bike surrounded it. As time went on, the tree grew around this bike. They both grew together, forming one entity. As the bike started to become older and rusted over, the tree supported it, lifting it from the ground. The base of the tree is where a rider should be placed on the bicycle. The bicycle is supposed to represent a person’s journey through life, while the tree is supposed to represent someone growing and changing on this journey. The bike is facing away from the greenery and light source, possibly symbolizing that the rider is going down a wrong path.
This picture relates to the novel, The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers. Like this bicycle, Bartle took a wrong turn in life. He went to war and lost his innocence along the way: he stared death in the face every day and became numb to all of his emotions, he could no longer make decisions on his own, since he was used to following and carrying out orders, and he isolated himself from the ones he cared about after the war. Like the bicycle, Bartle is trapped; his memories of war will never leave him until the day that he dies. Bartle is like a lost traveler in the woods, he cannot find his way out until he reflects back on the journey he took.
Muha, J 5-6th period
The first thing I think of is how the bike originally got there. A little boy must have one day leaned his bike against the tree and intended to return to it at a later time. There must have been some circumstance preventing the boy from returning to it. I think this picture is a metaphor of time passing and the inevitable growth that every being goes through. The bike is a childhood memory, one that was left behind at home and can no longer be accessed, only looked at and cherished as something that once was. The tree is the man growing and becoming stronger and more stable as the time passes. The bike intertwined with the tree serves as a symbol of the memory always staying with the man even as he changes.
This picture takes me back to a time in the book the Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers, when Bartle, the main character, returns home from the Iraqi War. He stays with his mother in his childhood home. One day when he is outside, trying to make sense of his past and the atrocities of the war, he comes across a place he used to go when he was young. He knew he had been there before mainly because he found his initials carved into the trees around him. Like the old bike, his initials were a sign that he had been there, and the tree did not reject this, but embraced the encounter and grew with it, despite the change in his looks. For Bartle, the change was deeper than just a scratched off surface of bark, but nevertheless, he continued to grow as well.
I believe this can also be interpreted as a mark that we leave on other people's lives that may stay with them forever. Learning from this, of course, suggests that we must be careful and courteous, and ensure that, like the bicycle or the engraved initials, our marks are meaningful and filled with a sense of our personal selves.
The image describes two symbols that mean a lot more than the words coming from the vocal cords. The tall tree for instant stand strong and mighty has a high possibility to withstand the force of nature. And the bicycle is the motion of moving forward and backward in time. Combining the two icons together illustrate how a bicycle cannot move forward nor back, but is considerable stationary and is struggling to become free of the shackle of the tree. From “Yellow Bird,” the author was indirectly speaking the challenge face during and after war. The protagonist, PFC. Bartle was an early twenties soldier that chose to fight against terrorist by becoming a United State soldier. During the time in Iraq, Bartle had some tough time of seeing: friends die, becoming drunk with the sergeant, and getting shot at from the enemy. These are challenges what Bartle not only face in Iraq, but at home of Richmond, Virginia. All the thinking that Bartle does have an effect in his life, nevertheless the things he could only do is being the middle man.
Going back with the tree and bike shed some information about how Bartle life is the comparison with the image. Both are having the sense of struggle as the example with the bicycle that is rusting with the tree growing. The bike is finding it harder to escape and be free. For Bartle is having no understanding to fix his own problems of coping with old memories, and can’t move forward in life. All is left of him is being stuck in his own thoughts and life can presume a strange challenge.
J. Dhanraj 3rd Period
I think the tree stands for strength and i think maybe someone had put their bike there and never returned to retrieve it so its a metaphor for time passing and things changing and somehow, the bike merged with the tree and has been there ever since. this book relates to The Things They Carried by the soldiers being sent into vietnam with only one directive "seek and destroy" and the tree relates to the book by both the soldiers and the tree wonder how they ended up in the situation that they're in. The bike will never leave the tree like the war will never leave the soldiers minds.
The picture shows how the tree and bike have grown together and became one. This can be related to The Things They Carried because the soldiers and the war have grown together. They events they witnessed in the war will stay with them for the rest of their lives. They soldiers and the war cannot be separated,just as the bike cannot be separated from the tree.
This post shows that there is some personal growth going on. The bike and the tree have been through a lot but eventually have grown together as one. This theme is relevant in The Things They Carried. Tim O’Brien does a great job in letting the reader know that the war has changed these mens lives drastically. The experiences and memories they will never forget. In comparison to how this tree and the bike will never be separated. This picture also brings out another theme in the book, the theme that as one grows older they may forget the hard times but some do not and those who do not forget are sometimes haunted by those events for the rest of there life. Which goes with this picture, as the tree got older the bike stayed with the tree and never left its side.
Eric Bulic 1st Period
The picture displays a bike that was most likely left behind by a child. It is mostly likely showing us how time passes and we grow to become one united entity with something. The picture is a metaphor for the book The Things They Carried in the sense that O'Brien and his platoon became a single force. A single entity. They learned to cover each other, watch over one another and care for one another. When the men first got to war, they didn't know each other. Heck, they probably didn't think they were going to grow together, but they did. Exactly like the tree and bike. They didn't think they were going to grow together, but they did as well.
Mike Glencer 7/8 Period
This picture shows two totally different things and how they have grown and aged together. This picture shows that things change but they don't vanish. The Bike will never be separated from the tree which shows that memories always stick with you. This is related to The Things They Carried because the soldiers endure things in war that will stick with them forever. The soldiers and their memories can not be separated just like the bike and the tree.
Adam Nickles 5/6 period
In the picture, it shows that the tree grew around the bike over time, how they became one. This relates to my book The Yellow Birds because throughout war, people go through so much things during their time fighting that even once they are home and away from it all, war is still apart of them. They become one. All the suffering they go through stays with them.
I believe this pictures shows how something is able to adapt through extraordinary events. The bike was place in a new environment and needed to learn to adapt in order to survive. The tree represents the harsh environment as it had grown and pushed through the bike. This was just like in The Yellow Birds on how the soldiers were placed in a new environment and had to adapt. If they wouldn't have adapted to the chaos and unforgettable events of war, then they would lose their life, just like Murph had. The soldiers would need to adapt to learn to become numb to death just like Bartle had done. Bartle had learned to adapt to all the chaos and brutality of war and was able to survive it. Just like the Bike, the soldiers needed to learn how to adapt to their new environments. If not, then the bike wouldn't have grown with the tree and would have been broken and unwanted. Just like how Murph became broken and lost his life from it. You must learn to adapt to your environment around you to survive.
Pelka, E. 1st period
When I look at this picture, I imagine that the tree would have had to grow around the bike. This reminds me of how Bartle, who does survive the war, has to grow around the fact that he loses Murphy in the war. No matter how traumatizing it was, and no matter how much he didn't believe that Murphy should not have died, he still has to adapt with that. The bike could be thought of as all the troubles and brutal scenarios that each soldier had to go through. The tree could be thought of as the soldier himself, such as Bartle, who had to grow around these hardships.
S. Schleich 1 Period
This image shows two completely different items that were totally different but as time went on these items grew as one. The bike must have sat near the tree as it grew over the years. Thus showing a relationship of leaning on each other to stand and as the time went on the two objects came together as one. While the tree grew bigger, the bike started to rust, and bend but the tree was there supporting the old bike. They were linked together for a lifetime.
This picture is a metaphor for "The Yellow Birds" because it relates to how two different men can come together as one over time. In the novel a solider named Bartle was just going to war, and a young man named Murphy joined as well. Bartle was more of man that would stay by himself and didn't want to be with other people, whereas Murph could talk someones ear off. In the formation of an unlikely friendship the two bond together. Bartle makes a promises to Murph;'s mom that he would keep him safe. The grow together throughout the book and become a team and as one. This photo relates to the novel because in the end, Murphy dies but his friendship and the impact he made on Bartle kept him standing strong even with old memories still attached.
M. Al-Zarraq 5/6 period
I believe that this picture demonstrates the will to survive. It shows that nature will always find a way, even when something tries to stop it. The ability for the tree to grow around something that blocks its path shows its determination to live. And this can be seen as well in The Things They Carried. Almost every character had experienced something traumatic that seemed to stop them in their tracks. Everyone who survived the war had to go on to live with all the troubling things that they experienced. For example O’Brien, when he came home he had to continue to live with the guilt of the dead Vietnamese soldier. He had to try to not let that get in the ay of his life. And the tree is a good example of something that had to try to live on with something that tried to keep it down.
This picture explains that when two things spend a lot of time together, they eventually become one. Somebody put the bike next to the tree, and over the time, the bike became one with the tree. This is a metaphor for The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, with Private Bartle and the War. In the beginning, he wasn't as connected to the war and everything was 'okay'. Eventually, he becomes one with the war, and it leads him to having many breakdowns. He can't get rid of his past and what he did, just like somebody would not be able to get the bike out of the tree.
- Wiley 3rd Period.
The picture shows an example of overlap. The rusted bike was left on the ground for so long that the tree grew into the bike and overlapped it. This works the same way as a memory. Over time our memories become overlapped with new ones and the old ones are wrapped up in modern events. Even though the bike may be in the way, the tree continues to grow. Memories may hold us back but that doesn't mean we cannot continue to grow. The soldiers' memories held them hack in many ways after the war. O'Brien showcased this through his mostly fabricated (exaggerated) stories about how he got into the Vietnam war. The tree and the bike represent the soldiers' (and our) memories that get wrapped up in one another, sometimes creating an exaggerated version of one another.
Bloxsom, N. 5/6th period.
This picture obviously shows a bike grown in with a tree, but under further analysis you can think about how the tree was forced to grow through the bike. In order to live the tree had to grow through the bike and not let it stop the tree from living. The tree seems to have got through it and is living healthy even with the scar of the bike.
This picture can be related to the book “The Yellow Birds” by Kevin Powers by the way it shows adaptation and scarring. In the book the squad is put into Al Tafar, Iraq and is forced to just patrol the area. All in all they go through some deaths and traumatic moments. The squad was put in an unknown surrounding and was forced to adapt to their circumstances. They experience all those deaths and events and in the end the remaining survivors get to go home to their normal lives. The main character is Sterling and when he returns home he is lost and scarred from all the things he experienced. All of those things have become a part of him and it’s just like the bike being a part of the tree.
3 Period L.A.
This picture shows two objects that have become intertwined. The bike entered the tree's life when it was very small and hung around long enough for the tree to grow around it. The bike did not grow, though, because it is not living, but the tree continued on with its life, continuing to grow and change. The tree will never be the same, though, because the bike has been intertwined with the life of the tree.
This image is a metaphor for the book The Yellow Birds because it represents the relationship of Murphy and Bartle. Murphy showed up at the beginning of Bartle's military career and the two unlike men ended up becoming close friends. Unfortunately, Murphy was killed in the war and was not able to continue growing and changing along with Bartle. Bartle, though, had to keep moving forward and keep growing without Murph, but he will forever be a changed person because of Murphy. John Bartle is the tree, and Daniel Murphy is the bike.
Kathryn Feeney, 5/6
This picture shows that the bike has become one with the tree. Both things grew over time into one thing. The bike stared out like a new bike and the tree was probably very small. As time went on, the bike got stuck in the tree and they grew to be one. The bike is now rusted and is now a memory of something else. Maybe it was a kids bike and all the memories that kid has is now with that tree.
This picture could be a metaphor to the novel The Things They Carried. During the Vietnam War, soldiers didn’t want to fight, most of them were drafted and had no idea why they were fighting. They just saw enemies and did what they had to do. Most of them were still in their teens and very young. This made a huge impact on some people who were in the war. The bike can represent the soldiers and over time the bike grew into the tree, like the soldiers learned how to deal with the war.
Krencisz A, 3rd period
This picture shows two completely different things that have grown together. These two things spent so much time together that they became united as one. This picture shows two completely different things that have made an impact on each other. The bike became a part of the tree’s life when it was just starting out. Then, as the tree grew bigger, the bike became stuck in the life of the tree. The tree grew to be much larger and stronger and the bike grew to be more bent and rusted. Together, the bike and the tree have grown to be united. They are now one.
This photo can be a metaphor for the book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. The soldiers that went to the Vietnam War were impacted significantly. The war became a huge part of all of the soldier’s lives, weather they agreed with the war or not. For example, O’Brien did not support the war or want to fight in it. He did not want to be a part of the war so badly that he tried to escape to Canada. However, later in the book, when he is shot and taken out of the war, misses being with his comrades. The war impacts O’Brien even though he did not agree with it. As O’Brien grew somewhat used to the war, he realized that it would always be a part of him. Also, he says that you had to be in the war to understand it, the only other people that would understand that were his fellow comrades. The bike represents the war and the tree represents the soldiers.
Rachel Luna
3rd period
I believe that this picture shows that no matter how different two objects are, there is always a way for them to grow together. The bike must have been left near the tree when it was just a seedling, and with the bike in its way, it had to adapt to that change in order to grow. As we can see, since the bike will never break down, it will always be a part of the tree in which they will use each other to stand tall. This idea is expressed in The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers because Bartle knew he wanted to be a part of the army ever since he was a young boy. With this thought in mind, he had to adapt to the behavior and actions of the military in order to be successful. Throughout his journey, he then met a young man named Murph and as they fought together, they used each other to help themselves stay strong through the pain and sorrow. Finally, just like the bike will forever be stuck within the tree, the war will forever be stuck within Bartle. Even though he made it out alive and was able to go home, he was depressed, stressed out, and didn’t want to associate with anyone. These are the effects that the war had on him. It broke him down so much that he didn’t even really know who he was anymore, which changed him for the rest of his life.
-Winston S. 5/6*
I get three messages out of this picture. The first one is everyone/anything can join together and become one. The bike and the tree grew together and became one. Just like how in The Yellow Birds everyone fighting had to join together and help each other out. The second message I see is; everything becomes a memory. Someone had to of own that bike and then one day it wasn't there's anymore and they had to let go of it. Also in the Yellow Birds many families and friends lost ones fighting and they become a memory and they had to let go of them. Lastly I see this picture as, not everything goes the way you want it too. Murphy from The Yellow Birds dies and I am sure that isn't how Bartle wanted it to go but sadly it did.
-Dominic A. Ferretti
The theme of The Yellow Birds is the corruption of war. War takes people who are capable and destroy them. In the same way that the nature of war and humanity destroys soldiers and their conscious the bicycle is destroyed by nature through the tree. The tree seems to make up the bike just as war becomes a part of the individuals who experience war and are scared by it. The background of the green plants may suggest greed and evil. This picture all together would characterize war as the cause of greed, the nature of man, and the destructive forces of war on the soldiers who have to fight and see its evils.
1~Colton Kemp
When I first examined this picture, I saw a bicycle branching out from the inside of a tree. I reckoned that these two objects had grown together over time to become "one" with the other. The symbol that is created by this picture relates to The Yellow Birds, specifically to Bartle's relationship with Murph. The two men grew side-by-side during their service in Iraq, to the point where their souls became intertwined with one another, similar to the tree and bicycle.
Bartle and Murph had an unordinary relationship to begin with, due to the promise Bartle made early on. He told Murph's mother that he would protect her son throughout their time in Iraq and bring him home safely in one piece. This was a heavy burden for Bartle to carry on his shoulders, but he still tried his hardest to secure that promise. This then became the bond that formed between the two men, as they were always seen next to or near each other throughout the novel. Their lives, just like any other friends' lives, became interlaced with one another, and they both came to care for the other deeply. When Murph unfortunately died towards the end of their service in Iraq, Bartle was devastated and placed all the blame on himself. Just like the bicycle, he became "stuck" on Murph; he was basically super-glued to Bartle's mind, impossible to escape from.
Brooke Klinko 3*
The picture depicts a bicycle that is seemingly growing through a tree. It looks like a piece of art designed to trick the eye. The viewpoint given does not show the whole picture, which says a lot about the perspectives that change things in life and our books.
In the Things They Carried, the soldiers have a certain perspective going into the war. They see the war as unpopular, futile, and just a general waste. They do not want to go to war because they see it as pointless danger to themselves, as did others. However they did not realize the intensity that the war would bring. Their perspectives changed as they entered the war and progressed through it. This perspective after they see the whole picture is captured in the picture above. They see the bike in the tree one way, and then after the war, they might see a different side of the tree.
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Paul Smith, 3rd Period
In the picture that is shown there are two items that are completely different but come together. You can bring this together with The Things They Carried by talking about the war and soldiers. Both were completely different but both came together at the end. The soldiers had no option but to fight through the war. They will never forget about the war or get separated from it just like the bike can not jump out of the tree.
the picture clearly shows a bike and a tree together as one object.even with the bike inside of the tree, it still manages to grow and live. two completely different objects living as one.
in "the Things They Carried" the soldiers and war are two completely different things. over time these objects will eventually grow into each other just like the bike and tree. when a soldier lives through war, they are completely different inside. i feel as if the mental state of war and soldiers goes hand in hand with the bike and the tree. war is always going to be apart of you for the rest of your life. you continue living your life even after what war does to the human
There are some things in this world that one has no control over. Everyone says that everything happens for a reason so why to people live their lives dedicating their time to changing everything and finding the solution to every predicament. Things happen because that is the way they are supposed to be. This bike just happened to become part of the process of this trees growth, of this trees life. You try to pull the bike out of the tree, it breaks. You try to cut the tree from the bike, it dies. These to items were grown together as one for a reason and it happened to turn into art. The comparison here to the book yellow birds is that everything that happened through war was meant to. People died for each other because it was what was needed to be done in order to fight for their country. People need each other to make it through difficult times because no one can single handedly fight a war by themselves. There is a explanation and a reasoning for every scenario or every situation someone gets put into. The tree and bike are built into one just as a solider is trained ready for war. Things are the way they are for unexplained reasons that the world has to grow to accept.
Ally Modie 3rd period
This picture shows two totally different things and that they have grown and together. This picture shows that things change and they adapt and live through what they can to survive. The Bike will never be separated from the tree like in the things they carried they had to carry around their regrets and memories for the rest of their lives and learn to adapt and live with them . The soldiers and their memories can not be separated just like the bike and the tree
k.hotz 5-6 period
The picture shows a bike infused with a tree. The bike probably stuck to the tree when the tree started off small and grew over time. The bike was probably around the tree enough that it ended up twisting into the tree.
The tree with the bike is a metaphor to the Yellow Birds because the relationship between Bartle and Murph are so close. Bartle was so close to Murph that their relationship was stuck. They hung out together from day one and they became very close.
-Alexa Shaneyfelt 3rd period
This picture shows two different things growing and molding together, and they spent so much time that became one. The bike is like a child, growing up in the time of war and at first war was like a very small tree, barely alive but still there. And as time began to go by, the bike matured and so did the tree. And as time went on more, the bike got caught and was now mangled into the tree. And had to now function with the tree not only living inside of it, but all around it.
And this can be a metaphor for the book the yellow birds. Because Bartel once was a supporter of war, and had went into it willingly. But, as time progressed and he saw all of the horrors that war could cause, it left a gruesome mark on him and his life.
Which began to drive him insane, and effect the way he would live his day to day life. So, in a way Bartel was the tree, who eventually decided to live a secluded life but couldn't fully escape from the war and the death of Murph. And war was the tree.
I think the bike being inside of the tree is metaphorically comparing to the idea of an experience being stuck in someone's thoughts and mind the rest of their lives. The bike is merged with the tree and stuck in there, surrounded mostly by the tree. This is comparable to the book The Things They Carried because the soldiers memories and hardships from war stick in their minds forever and change the way they think. The soldiers, like the bike, are surrounded by a burden to themselves.
-Jake Busch 5/6
The picture shows a bicycle that got caught in the wrong spot. The bike was left where the tree wanted to grow and the tree just took the bike with it.
When thinking of The Things They Carried, I think this image can be easily compared to many of the soldiers who died and got injured. The boys were just stuck with some bad luck and shipped off. Like the bike that was just parked in the place where the tree was growing. They were shipped off and the war just surrounded them, and it became a new lifestyle. The boys are trapped in battle like the bike trapped in the tree.
This picture is portraying two things, very different from one another, growing into each other. The tree grew into the bike, and these two separate things are now interlocked with each other, and will never separate. This can be seen in The Yellow Birds as a metaphor. Bartle and war could be portrayed in this picture as two things interlocked, as one can never be taken from the other. After leaving Iraq, a piece of Bartle remained in Iraq, as well as a piece of war in him. Bartle was never the same after leaving the war, as war became interlocked with him permanently, as is the bicycle with the tree. This photo can be powerful depending on how it is portrayed, and in this instance, it can be used as a solid metaphor for Bartle and war in The Yellow Birds.
I think that this picture is trying to show how in nature some things are destined to happen that we cant control. The tree grew around the bike and now the two are interlocked and can not be separated. This could metaphorically relate to the Yellow birds with Bartle being the tree and either war or Murph being the bike. Bartle is now connected with war and will never be able to forget anything that he saw or have been through, it will forever be a memory. He went into war for a reason and destiny bonded them together. Also, the bike could be Murph; they crossed paths by chance in the war and ever since then their connection has had them bonded for life. Almost as if it were destiny bringing them together.
The picture shows two unalike things mashed together as one. The two things looked like they were not meant to be together but yet grew together, it looks like the bike was stuck in the tree then the tree grew with the bike in it and it became one. This is exactly like when O'Brien was drafted into the war. he was put thrown into the war just like the bike into the tree. Then O'Brien grew with the war and became a soldier and all learned from experiences in the war good and bad. Both things have grown together as one just like O'Brien and the war he has became one with he war and it helped him grow.
I've seen this picture, or the same idea, before. About a boy who chained his bike up to a tree, was drafted to World War One, and never made it back to get his bike. And no one ever took it off from the tree. I think it symbolizes how war, and time help people, or things, grow together as one and form unique relationships. It shows us how two different people, or in this case, two different things, can grow together. The difference in things didn't stop either from growing.
This can be seen throughht the things they carried, by the sharing of their stories. They all start out as a group of random people from very different parts of the country. But over time, they begin to share stories and bond. And the more time that goes by, the more they grow, like the tree and the bike. The more time that goes by, the stronger the bond becomes. It would be easy to remove the bike from the tree at first. They hasn't had the time to grow and bond. But given time, they have become I separable.
The picture is displaying that forces of nature consume the world that around nature. The amount of energy and time that was taken for this transfusion to take place was over the course of a long period of time. Before this encounter, the tree and bike knew neither existed. Once they met and began to fuse together, after a while, the appearance is different, but both objects are the same.
This is a metaphor to Yellow Birds; it is shown throughout the book. Murph and Bartle start out being who they were when they left the states, but as time goes on, they begin to change, some things for better, others for worse. Like the picture, war has taken over Murph and Bartle, and although they are still Murph and Bartle, they have changed in a way in which they will never be the same again.
What the picture shows is that two things that aren't meant to be together can grow together whether it's a positive thing or not. The bond between the two is permanent and there's no escaping it.
This can be used as a metaphor to The Things They Carried because of a soldiers experience while in the Vietnam War. Everything they go through becomes permanent in there minds and grows with them for the rest of their lives, as war does. The bond can never be broken and there is no other way to escape then to just live and strengthen the bond in the best way possible
7This picture portrays the idea of being caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is shown with Tim O’Brien in the book The Things They Carried. Early in the book it discusses how Tim O’Brien had certain thoughts of leaving his current life just too solely avoid the war. However he wasn’t able to follow through with this, resulting in a completely different Tim O’Brien compared to the one who had previously been drafted. Just as whoever had happened to leave that bike where a tree was going to grow, just bad timing overall. This also embodies the idea that once a man begins a path sometimes the damage that had been done was irreversible. Some of the things that happened too Tim O’Brien will forever mold him into who he is today.
Jeff Anzo 3rd period
This picture is likely the result of the bike being left near the tree as a sapling. As time passed, the tree grew around it. Or perhaps the tree was damaged in some way and the bike placed there by an external force, and then eventually the tree healed, forgetting it's wound.
Both possibilities can be seen as metaphors for The Yellow Birds. Similar to the bike being left behind, forgotten, dumped, Bartle is sent home and must try and carry on with his life. Like the tree he has to try and grow and adjust to his new life. Or the bike could represent the specific trauma felt by the loss of Murphy. Bartle was wounded by the death of his friend and while, like the tree, might look healthy and strong it's evident that the bike is still there. An ever present memory of his pain.
-Spencer Kinder 1st period
The image seen represents two unlike objects which have grown together over time. The bicycle and the tree are two unlike objects and they could have grown together in a multitude of ways. Was the bike trash, did a child forget the bicycle there, or was the bicycle just lost there. Society will never know for sure, but all we know about the tree and bike now is that they are one. Two uncommon objects merging together shows a power of unity stronger than what we may know. It is seen in many works of literature, such as in the novel, The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers.
In the story, two unlike characters come together to form one entity. Their names are Murphy and Bartle. They meet in training and they become very good friends throughout their service. When Murphy gets killed, Bartle looses his mind and does many things wrong. It destroys him, and he never forgets it. They went into the war totally opposite, and came out of it, although not physically, but mentally and spiritually connected. Just like the two unlike objects in the image.
The picture of the bike inside of the tree shows how two completely different things can be intertwined and become one. Both the bike and tree started out as two separate pieces and then later on grew together.
This picture can also be a metaphor for the book The Things They Carried by Tim O'brien. The soldiers in the book all have different stories. Each one of the soldiers have a life of their own outside of war. They have families and friends and other priorities. Some soldiers are complete opposites from one another always butting heads. When they are drafted into the war they become one. They become a troop that works together and stays together supporting each man every step of the way. Regardless of which way the war ends, these men will always have an impact in each others lives.
A storc 5/6
This picture shows that the bike has become one with the tree. Both things grew up together over time into one thing. The bike stared out like a new bike and the tree was a very small root. As time went on, the bike got stuck in the tree and they grew together as one.
In yellow birds this shows Bartles and Murphy's relationship because In the beginning they meet and there friendship starts small and slow then throughout the novel they grow together and become very close.
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