The author‚ Tim O’Brien‚ is deployed into the Vietnam war when he is a young man. Throughout the novel‚ the effects of the war on him are shown and they are profound‚ he has seen death and suffering; he has he seen death but he has also been the cause of it. He describes
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The Things They Carried‚ a novel by Tim O’Brien‚ is a collection of war stories told from a fictional Vietnam veteran’s perspective. O’Brien elucidates the physical and emotional barrier war creates between men and women to help demonstrate the frustration soldiers have with women in war. O’Brien illustrates the physical and emotional barrier Vietnam creates between men and women. The letters soldiers write to their girlfriends in the United States demonstrate the physical barrier between the two
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In Tim O’Brien’s story‚ The Things They Carried‚ the way the men idolize their possessions is directly related to the setting of the story. The men face a new and adverse environment when they are sent to Vietnam and carry many different sentimental objects in their packs. Lieutenant Cross holds himself responsible for the loss of one of his men and has his mind set to reform his team and not let the idea of a woman control his thought any longer. It is important to understand how much the setting
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Alexandra Berliner Eshoo English 12 11/28/11 Something A Soldier Ignores: Death Fatalities are part of every person’s life. To a normal citizen‚ death is often followed by sadness and grief. As portrayed in “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien‚ a soldier has to deal with the situation much differently. Death is portrayed in a negative light due to the fact that soldiers are greatly fearful of it and that they are forced to be unaffected by death. In order to cope with all the deaths
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The majority of the people will feel guilty when they do bad stuffs like lying and cheating. They will feel even guiltier when their friend dies because of them and when they kill somebody. Tim is like that way; he felt guilty when he experiences the death of his friends and enemies. In Vietnam‚ people are dying everywhere‚ including their friends. Rat Kiley’s friend‚ Curt Lemon‚ dies while they were playing catch with a smoke grenade. Although‚ the grenade did not kill Lemon and he dies when he
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past and no amount of worrying can change the future”- Umar Ibn Khattab At some point in each person’s life‚ they will feel guilt. Guilt is a valuable emotion‚ as it helps to maintain ties to the people around you. In the novel‚ “The Things They Carried‚” by Tim O’Brien‚ every soldier felt guilt when a unit member got killed or something tragic happened. This guilt felt by the soldiers was exemplified by Dave Jensen and Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. Decisions that both individuals made created the
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so completely that it joins with the world of dream and fantasy in an absolute reality. When surrealism is added in the nature of humankind‚ it has infinite endless amounts of meanings. Surrealism can impact one’s life through a variety of ways. For Tim O’Brien and many other people in war‚ war was very surreal for them. One of the most surreal moments O’Brien had during war was the death of Ted Lavender. “Right then‚ Ted Lavender was shot in the head on his way back from peeing. He lay with his mouth
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“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is a short story in which he talks about his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam. The idea it gives you of why the story is named like that is quite literal. O’Brien talks mainly about what they carried and brought home after the war like their ‘post traumatic stress disorder’‚ all the memories of guilt and fear‚ and some other physical objects like matches‚ morphines‚ rifles‚ and candy. For example‚ when Tim O’Brien goes on telling two stories‚ “The Man I
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Tim O’ Brien: he is one of the main characters in the story and what he does is that he collects stories from individuals that had went to fight in the Vietnam War. He is a pacifist meaning he is against war and overall violence. He cares for his family and country more than himself. He was also part of the Vietnam War as a soldier in the Alpha Company and after the war‚ he decided to collect stories that would help him deal with his pain and the deaths of his companions. Also‚ he was the narrator
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it worse. Families who lose their love ones especially in war experience great pain and grief which take a long time to heal. Tragedies can occur anytime anywhere. Humans have to realize the importance of losing their loved one. In the book “Things They Carried” the character Lavender and his group lose a lot of his soldiers during the Vietnam War and Lt.Cross faces a personal tragedy when lavender gets shot because he feels it’s his fault. In today’s world people are dying everywhere but especially
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