"The Tortilla Curtain" And "The Things They Carried" - Post Modern Critical Theory
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4 pages in length. The theme that links Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and T. Coraghessan Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain is the underlying political and social implications that ultimately impose themselves upon unsuspecting people. In O'Brien's (1999) case, the stench of war is thrust upon his protagonists, enveloping them like the plague to such an extent that the only thing keeping them sane is the camaraderie they develop. For Boyle (1996), the wholly divergent story line of two California couples – one wealthy suburbanites, the other Mexican immigrants – smacks of the injustice of social class distinction so readily attacked by Marxist theory. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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