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Going After Cacciato

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Going After Cacciato Information
664 words, approx. 2 pages
Going After Cacciato is a war novel written by author Tim O'Brien and winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1979, this complex novel is set during the Vietnam War and is told from the point of view of the protagonist, Paul Berlin. The story...


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CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
A Rumor of War: Another Look at the Observation Post in Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato.(novel about Vietnam War)
09/22/1999: 3,139 words, approx. 11 pages
The actions of the character Paul Berlin in Tim O'Brien's war novel "Going After Cacciato" are examined. Topics include the meaning of courage in combat, the structure of O'Brien's novel, and reality and fantasy in the mind of the narrator. Tim O'Brien's Going...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by James Griffith
8,135 words, approx. 27 pages
In the essay below, Griffith explicates the meanings of both the characters' actions and the narrative's events in Going after Cacciato by situating them in their historical context.
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Critical Review by Robert Wilson
1,020 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Wilson favorably comments on O'Brien's realistic descriptions of war from a footsoldier's perspective in Going after Cacciato.
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Critical Essay by Thomas R. Edwards
648 words, approx. 2 pages
Toward its end, Going After Cacciato quotes from Yeats's "Meditations in Time of Civil War"—"We had fed the heart on fantasies, / The heart's grown brutal from the fare." The words are said in a fantasy-scene, by a character who exists only in another character's mind, and it seems an apt motto for a novel about private dreaming in the midst of the public disaster of Vietnam…. [Going After Cacciato] goes well beyond mere disillusionment about wa...
 


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