Characters In The Things They Carried By Tim O Brien

The Things They Carried contained a collection of stories that were produced by Tim O’Brien to show the life of the American soldiers in the Vietnam War. He used parables to create his characters and utilized the roles of the characters to reflect the real war stories. He described several kinds of materials that soldiers carried in the stories. The emotional loads were the most important ideas that the soldiers should deal with at some points during the war. Tim O’Brien’s characters in The Things They Carried had shared some similarities from the actual war. Several points of views that connected with the real life, such as having a faith during the war periods; trying to walk out of the shadow of war as soon as possible; and the environment

The things they brought were both physical and intangible. O’Brien used them to explain the love and the guilty happen during the time. He used his memories to bring back the authentic history. In the book, Jimmy Cross always carried his girlfriend Martha’s picture and letter. This picture could represent the loneliness that exists in Cross’s heart. Marijuana and tranquilizers were the methods that helped Ted Lavender calmed down and escaped from the war. He utilized this unique writing style because he wanted to write his own true war stories, a story that could happen in the real life. Most of the soldiers could not get out of war after returning back home because of the uncomfortable feeling of killing people. They were not able to cope with the stress and grief. In The Things They Carried “On the Rainy River”. Tim O’Brien used his personal experience to imagine a theme that represented him as a young person who was trying to escape from getting drafted from the war. The soldiers should be always brave, but in O’Brien’s stories, he showed all kinds of moral weakness that occurred in the stories. The characters blamed themselves for