Meaning of the Things They Carried Tim O’Brien is a veteran of the Vietnam War and he fought with the United States in that controversial war. Tim O’Brien was drafted into the Vietnam War in 1968. He served as an infantryman‚ and obtained the rank of sergeant and won a Purple Heart after being wounded by shrapnel. He was discharged from the Vietnam War in 1970. I believe that O’Brien’s own past experiences he encountered in the Vietnam War gave him inspiration to write “The Things They Carried.” In the
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The Weight The soldiers who served during the Vietnam War carried more than their fair share of tangible and intangible items. The soldiers bore the weight of their packs‚ they lugged around heavy equipment‚ and they struggled to cope with the violence and death that surrounded them. But the heaviest item that they would bear would not be by choice at all. Every passing day that the soldiers served in this war‚ more weight would be added to this item. When the time came for the soldiers to
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Tim O’Brien’s decision to go to Vietnam was out of the fear from disappointing his family and community. How does shame affect and play a role in the life of the soldiers in The Things They Carried? The Things They Carried is a book set in Massachusetts but the core of the book is based in Vietnam. A group of Soldiers go to war and Tim O’Brien decides to document the true effects of war but beneath his words‚ there were a lot of factors and double meaning to them. The motif ‘Shame” played a huge
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In Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” the raw realities of the cruel and unforgiving Vietnam War are authentically depicted. Just in the first five paragraphs sex‚ narcotics‚ and death‚ largely controversial topics in this country‚ are reasonably apparent. One character‚ Lieutenant Jimmy Cross‚ may be physically present but conveys every sign of distraction. He seems to be in a more copacetic quarter of his mind. In this quarter he finds elation and comfort when he thinks of the (so he thinks
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The ‘things they carried’ in the fictionalized story of the Vietnam War are not only military supplies‚ guns‚ and ammunition‚ but they also are the “things” that comforted the soldiers and helped them through the tumultuous war. The Vietnam War was different from wars in the past but this story is similar and helps understand the “things they carried” and how helped the soldiers get through it. “It didn’t’ matter what they were‚ But they were the things they carried.” Tim O’Brien graduated in
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Tim O’Brien’s semi-autobiographical novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ illustrates the trauma and horrors veterans face during war‚ especially during the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War ushered in a new era of soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder‚ but unlike the veterans of wars before‚ there has been more research to help those suffering from the mental disability. O’Brien‚ like many veterans‚ uses writing as a medium to help ease the pain of the trauma he has suffered through the war
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Samantha Schulz Mrs. Nilles English 12-5 05 November 2012 O’Brien’s Theme of Rejection and Disconnect Why does O’Brien use the theme of rejection to convey his experience in war? In the book‚ The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien writes about his experience in the Vietnam War. He uses many themes to show how the war has changed the soldiers and how the citizens perceive the war. Throughout the book‚ he uses the theme of rejection to show the disconnection between the soldiers at war
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the amount of death that soldiers encounter. During the Vietnam War‚ soldiers saw their brothers and enemies getting violently killed every day. Before war‚ the soldiers had never been around so much death and destruction. In the novel The Things They Carried‚ the narrator focuses on important deaths and analyzes them from different points of view. A death is a huge event‚ and not something that can be classified as an absolute. The way you view a death one day can be vastly different from the way
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The Things They Carried is a book written by Tim O’ Brien about the destruction of war and the effect on the soldiers. His decision to kill someone was one of the hardest decisions he has ever had to make in his life. To make a decision like this is not as simple as most people think it can be. Many factors play into this‚ to be able to kill someone is going against morality people face today especially by society. I honestly could not make the decision to kill a man unless my life is at stake. “I’d
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In The Things They Carried‚ the author‚ Tim O’Brien‚ wants to emphasize different aspects of what the men carried. O’Brien provides different subjects throughout the work‚ with all having significance to the story. The items build on one another with the author’s use of anaphoras and examples‚ both general and specific‚ which stress the importance of what the men truly carried. Throughout the story‚ O’Brien uses several subjects that all have significance to the story. With each subject change‚
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