War makes individuals enter another world that to most appear to be not at all like the old. The life they had is presently gone, which bring these men only an attack of new stresses and bad feelings. These feelings change the way individuals respond and feel. As appeared in the story “The Things They Carried” by the author Tim O'Brien. The brave soldiers all carry overwhelming feelings, yet the heaviest of them all is Guilt. Blame is a weight that the characters cannot escape from; it is something they will live with it the rest of their lives. Jimmy Cross is a good example. He transmits the blame of Ted Lavender's dead not just all through the war; he even brings it on his mind when he returned home. Jimmy's …show more content…
He starts explaining more in detail Lt. Cross'obsession with Martha. Ather this, the narrator begins posting things that are more military than the first list. This list incorporates weapons of different sorts and the amount they weigh. It is an extremely non-emotional list generally and it appears to cut down the enthusiastic level of the narrator. This appears to trigger the narrator's feelings again and he clarifies in more detail what occurred after Lavender was shot.**** ----. The list discusses how a few warriors feel about the death of their friend. This incorporates Lt. Cross' contemplations that Lavender is dead since he couldn't quit considering Martha. This is the most emotional and definite account of the story. The narrator focuses back on the list as though to center himself but now even the list appear to be more emotional. The weapons are currently depicted as "methods for executing or remaining alive." This list of things is brief and the narrator goes all the more rapidly into a dialog of Lt. Cross' fixation on Martha, the good fortunes rock she gave him, and the dreams he has about her continue distracting his mind from the war in Vietnam. 'He carries a love for her despite her lack of return love. He carried it forefront in his mind to the point of total distraction.' (21) In this quote we analyze the desire …show more content…
The narrator still specifies things that are carried but they are once in a while genuine items. Most of them are thoughts, sentiments, or states of mind the men carried during war. He says, "They carried all the psychological weight of men who may bite the dust. Anguish, fear, love-longing." The narrator has effectively worked up to the profoundly intense subject matters and didn't really utilizes the list to ease his uneasiness. He speaks uninhibitedly about these interior things that the soldiers carried.'It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.' (25) 'They all carried ghosts' (10). In this quotes we can interpet all the emotional things that they carry inside, their fears and all the flashbacks that they have in their minds of the war. The lists in this story accomplish more than teach about the rough life in the Vietnam War. They help the narrator to recount a traumatic story a bit easier. The lists empower him to sort out his musings and steer into a troublesome enthusiastic subject. On the off chance that the narrator let excessively out too early he would withdraw back to the lists to ground himself before proceeding. As the story advances, the span of the lists diminish but the intense enthusiastic substance develops as the narrator gets more fearlessness to discuss the horrors that