Summary: The Things They Carried By Tim O Brien

The book that I have recently read was “The things they carried”. The book was written by Tim O’Brien who was once a US soldier. The book is about the Vietnam War which was started around 1955. Tim himself was a soldier fighting in the war who had survived. He writes the story fictionally but the names of the characters are of real people. The book is a series of short stories and the situation in the story reflects horror of the war. There are three areas of conflicts that occur in the stories which are physical, psychological and environmental.

In the beginning of book the writer tells us about “The things they carried.” He explains the physical conflicts the soldiers had. They carried things that were necessary for them as to survive