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Field Trip By Tim O Brien: Chapter Analysis

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In The Things They Carried: Field Trip, Tim O'Brien takes his ten year old daughter, Kathleen, to Vietnam around the twentieth anniversary of the wars end. This chapter is important to the story because it not only gives the readers some feeling of validity and peace, but it’s important to the overall closure to the story. The chapter starts off with the author reminiscing about the field of where Kiowa actually died. O’Brien compares the current day Vietnam land and culture to bloody, gruesome, and heartbreaking, wartime Vietnam that he was once unfortunately very familiar with. Although this trip was supposed to be for Kathleen, she did not seem to be very impressed with the scenery. They later take a trip to a small creek that Tim decides
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