Some people call quick poses âwarm-upsâ, reflecting the idea that a drawing session is like a workout. How to Create Five Minute Art. To try this, you will need some form of clock or timer, preferably one that you can set to ding at the five minute mark.
The Fluid Nature of Time. âAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridgeâ is an elaborately devised commentary on the fluid nature of time. The storyâs structure, which moves from the present to the past to what is revealed to be the imagined present, reflects this fluidity as well as the tension that exists among competing notions of time.
The fourth story of The Things They Carried is âOn the Rainy River.â The narrator, Tim OâBrien, explains that he is about to tell a story that he has never told anyone before. It begins in 1968 while OâBrien is in college. OâBrien imagines himself as a hero that would certainly stand up to evil.he title story, âThe Things They Carried,â and âHow to Tell a True War Storyâ are perhaps the most frequently anthologized of OâBrienâs short stories. Something happens in this book, however, that seems to push it beyond a simple collection of stories.