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Going After Cacciato

Going After Cacciato, an epic novel written by Tim O'Brien, is about a platoon of men going away without leave (AWOL) searching for a young man named Cacciato in the imagination of a man of the platoon named Paul Berlin. In Going After Cacciato the "tea party," between the AWOL platoon and Li Van Hgoc contributes greatly to the novel by adding to the confusion and teaching the reader how to deal with the war and the 'noise.'
The first thing that this "tea party" does is that it introduces the reader to Li Van Hgoc. The response of Paul Berlin to Li Van Hgoc and his party was a "falling feeling, a slipping, and . . . being high in the tower by the sea." This sets the novel as never truly being stable, but as "slipping" and "falling." Li Van Hgoc helps to establish the confusion in Going After Cacciato. He shows the madness of people during wartime, the madness of war, and the madness of the world.
Since this, "tea party," is an obvious allusion to Alice in Wonderland, it......


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