Group+8

=How Heavy is an Envelope?= (4 Grams- Physical/ 1000 lbs.-emotional)

Summary:
How do items we use everyday bear such significance on our lives? By carrying these things, what types of weight or baggage do they have with them? Some of the things that we may think are insignificant or very common and unimportant can weight the heaviest in the right circumstances. In a rhetorical sense of, "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brian, these artifacts that the author kept reverting back to were the catalyst that kept these men sober and drunk at different times in the story. These objects carried significant value in what these men had to carry with them through the jungles of eminent per rel.


 * Similarities || Differences ||
 * * Both seek a different meaning in items, symbols, and actions in the text. ||< * Rhetorical tries to per sway you to believe what they think about story and how the items have weigh ||
 * * Tend to ignore Author's intention for story. || * Psychoanalytical criticism looks at the subconscious levels of each soldier and the way the items affect them in significant ways. ||
 * * Both looks at how the text appeals to the audience ||  ||

Objective:

 * Psychoanalytical specifically seems to fit this story with the reference to the big four: fear, repression, fascination with death, and sex. Then taking the Big Four and seeing how it relates to the audience and the author's unconscious. Where rhetorical tries to argue the items ponderousness on the entire story.

Mike's paper

[|Jesse Paper]

=**Literary Criticism:**=

__Rhetorical Criticism__: It is a way of analyzing artifacts like words, phrases, texts, gestures, and performances to understand how those artifacts work or how they persuade the audience to believe a certain way predetermined by the introduce of the artifacts (Rhetorical).

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__Psychoanalytical Criticism__: In psychoanalysis the reader must focus on the psychological perspective of the book, which in most cases is not the true intent of the story. Psychoanalytical criticism calls the audience to look passed what the author intended, and try to view the text as a dream. Now dreams can be interpreted in many different ways but, Sigmund Freud calls us to focus on something called the Big Four. After picking out objects the audience can start asking like: How does the Big Four relate to the author? How does the Big Four relate to me?

Work Cited

Rhetorical Critique, Wikipedia. 2009. .