Bowling Vs Humping

How can we compare too irreverent things? Sure, they both deal with blood, gore, and deaths, but is that enough for them to be compared and contrasted? The answer to that question is yes they can. You can contrast that during the Columbine shootings which were held a few years back, the boys enjoyed the gun play and took many lives including there own. While in "The Things They Carried", we have a man by the name of Tim O' Brien who was not a fan of the Boys Scouts, and was on a threshold between joining the war and ditching the war. They both have a lot of similarities also. There is no real setting to both, the director of the movie goes everywhere throughout the U.S while in "The Things They Carried" we go from one part of time to another. Also Bowling for Columbine has some humorous parts like the dog holding gun being cute part while in "The Things They Carried”, Tim Lavender's death brought some laughs here and there and you can't forget about his squadron’s comments about his death. The Columbine event brought a protest to guns throughout the U.S while the Vietnam War was protested from the beginning. We also have some history in both, the director included how guns were popular from the beginning, while O'Brien goes over how the Vietnam War started and how the U.S was in the war for more than beliefs. The movie tries to go into depth by going to person to person and searching for details to why that fateful event ever occurred, while "The Things They Carried" uses many descriptive features and words.

Now, now they aren't that similar. I can always go to the extreme and say that Bowling for Columbine was a movie and "The Things They Carried" is a book. The director of Bowling for Columbine was not actually in the event of Columbine while Tim O' Brien was actually out in the Vietnam War humping what he actually wrote. Only "The Things They Carried" can really show us how Tim was actually feeling, there is no way unless due to some unnatural powers can we ever understand how those two boys felt while doing their dreadful deeds.

So I leave with some words of advice, violence is a bad thing! Don't smoke, read once a week, and live life to your fullest! Okay, Thanks, Bye!