Characters In The Things They Carried By Tim O Brien

In The Things They Carried, a war novel, by Tim O’Brien author introduces many characters. Those characters show the bitterness pain and suffering of Vietnam War caused situation. For better picture of what does the war do to young people Tim O’Brien introduces some major and minor character. Showing how they are at first represented, what kind of change do they go through and how do they end up. Different angles of viewpoint are depicted by the fact that author not only uses men to show the evolution, but also women. Common sense is that each person changes differently because, he is individual but going to war changes both men and women to mean cold and cruel creatures. To start with war makes each character loses innocence. As they were children approximately 18 or 19 years old they grew “old”. “I mean, when we first got here - all of us - we were real young and innocent, full of romantic bullshit, but we learned pretty damn quick”. People either find or lose themselves. Losing innocence itself means changing and this quote describes the situation pretty well. They were looking at life in “pink

"Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” is one of the most influential chapters in the book she shows the changing power of Vietnam, that a sweet innocent young girl can come into this land and became forever consumed by her surroundings. Mary Anne was a young sweet innocent girl unaffected by the war at first. The author shows us character description from what she was wearing when she arrived. "This cute blonde just a kid, just barely out of high school white culottes and this sexy pink sweater.” (P.90. her "pink sweater" is a symbol for innocence, the color associated with her talks about lot that she is young, innocent happy. And how did she end up? As an animal-like hunter who wears a necklace of tongues. She became cold wild creature, she lost herself and could not regain something that she