Summary Of The Things They Carried By Tim O Brien

The Arthur Tim o Brien was born on October 1st 1964 best know for his work of fiction stories The Things They Carried, a critically acclaimed collection of semi-autobiographical, interrelated short stories connects to the story because he was present in it. he participated in the Vietnam war . In this story he goes into deep detail about him killing someone in the war when his daughter asked has he ever killed someone in the beginning it goes into deep detail about his thoughts on if he should tell his daughter the truth about the boy he killed in the war Tim got very emotional When his daughter asked him "with all these war stories you have written you must have killed some one " when asked that he thought to himself should he tell her the truth for a minute he considered it but as much as he wanted to yes and explain the story to her he realized she was just a little girl and the only answer he could really say is no in the story you can kind of tell that he was bothered when the daughter asked the
he was on watch for the night and he heard a person coming he tried the best to see who it was because he didn’t want to kill him but it was very dark and he couldn’t tell if it was the enemy so he pick a bomb and pulled the pin so that meant he had to throw it. Then for a minute his mind went blank and filled back up once it did he realized he had threw the bomb without telling himself to throw it once it landed he heard the man running but it was to late it blew up before he could get away Tim explains how he never meant to kill the guy he just wanted to scare him away but once it was done a solider came to talk to him and told him don’t feel bad because if you hadn't have killed him he probably would've killed us but hearing this did not make Tim feel any better he still feel guilty and he thinks that could've been a less violent