Summary Of Tim O 'Brien's Novel The Things They Carried'

A true writers writer, Tim O’Brien discusses the connection between truth and storytelling in his novel “The Things They Carried”. He uses stories to dabble on the fine line of what actually happened and what seemed to happen. O’Brien uses his stories not to relay details of a certain event, but rather to express the teeming emotions felt and attempt to keep lost ones alive. A universal aspect of O’Brien’s stories is death. He speaks of his dead comrades to keep them alive, similar to how the soldiers shook the hands of the dead villagers to respect life after death. In the story ‘Speaking of Courage” O’Brien is able to recreate Norman Bowker in a light much brighter than the one in the YMCA Locker room. Only wanting to tell someone,