Fear In Tim O Brien's The Things They Carried

One of the biggest problems in our life is fear. Fear is a problem because it affects everything; we think and say and do, all the decisions and the choices we make. For example human fear many things like fear of flying, heights, death and etc.. In his book the things they carried Tim O'Brien writes but the theme of fear because the soldiers in the Vietnam War were afraid of making the right decisions. Tim O'Brien and his platoon carry the fear of death and the fear of shame.fear is show in this is characters of Jimmy Cross, Norman Barker, and Time himself.

Jimmy Cross shows weakness and fear. For example, In this part of the story, Jimmy Cross was trying to write a letter to Kiowa's father he said:“When the war was over, he thought,