What type of 3 lies are found in BOTH the poem "Do Not Weep Maiden, War is Kind" by Stephen Crane and the story "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien?

Question

What type of 3 lies are found in BOTH the poem "Do Not Weep Maiden, War is Kind" by Stephen Crane and the story "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien?

1. Name the three lies found in both of the texts.
2. For each lie found in both texts, make sure to state what type of lie it is (facade, the white lie, omission, etc.)
3. Provide two pieces of textual evidence of where you found the same type of lie. (1 piece of evidence from the poem) (1 piece of evidence from the story) (there should be 6 pieces of evidence in total)

Answer 1

 A façade usually implies when someone states or shows things that they do not really feel. For instance, when you smile but feels upset inside. The question remains, is façade or any other type of lie found in the poem "Do Not Weep Maiden, War is Kind" by Stephen Crane, and the story "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien?

 The poem, "Do Not Weep Maiden, War is Kind" realistically describes some speaker's experience of the War and soldiers who are destined to die in that war. Krane in this poem uses imagery, mainly irony to fairly describe the war scenes. Crane repeatedly describes war in this poem as being “kind”, while what he really means is, war is brutal. This is an imagery technique he uses in his entire Works known as irony, but not necessarily a lie. Crane does not intentionally try to create a misleading or deceiving impression by stating that the War is “kind”. Instead, he is creating an image, verbal irony, to emphasize how brutal the war is.\

 When the speaker in the poem addresses the three women, he implies the entire Mankind. He is in this instance using the literary technique known as synecdoche meaning the part standing for the whole. Crane is claiming that people, in general, should not scare death. Some twenty-century writers such as Earnest Hemingway, who is influenced by Crane, addresses the same idea in most of his Works. Hemingway symbolically compares death to a tree wood in fire with ants inside it. Some ants will be burnt soon, some others will try to avoid fire but will be burnt later. As such, there is no reason to scare death because it is inevitable.

 The idea of death goes back to the ancient Greek philosophers, mainly Epicurus, who states that people do not scare death itself, but they are concerned to lose the daily-life pleasures. In Epicurean view, our desire for life comes from our feelings. Since there are no feelings after death, there is no reason to scare death.

 Some might think that Tim O’ Brien’s “The Things They Carried” include lies. This might be some personal view that is unconvincing. Indeed, the Story realistically describes the horrible scenes of the Vietnam war, the soldiers and the things they carry, the blame that Cross, the protagonist, feels towards his dying friends, and his burning of Martha’s letters to express such blame. Like the poem “"Do Not Weep Maiden, War is Kind," death is the most dominant theme in this story.