How Does Tim O Brien Tell The Reader To Read The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien did a fantastic job when he wrote the book The Things They Carried. He was able to bring out his personal experiences from it. He was able to captivate the audience by both having the theme feel what he was feeling and also how he was able to express what was going on when it was going on. One of the most important parts was when he was explaining the feeling of the war on the men when one of their comrades was killed. He also does a great job when he shows death he is not only able to show the dark dirty gruesome parts of it but also the light clean beautiful parts of it. Another part that Tim O'Brien expressed extremely well was when he talked about their fear of death and how he went into detail about how raw he explained it

Was well written because he was able to show so many emotions throughout the book I think that one of the best examples of this was Curt Lemons's death and how Tim O’Brien expanded how it was almost beautiful “I glanced behind me and watch Lemon step from the shade into bright sunlight. His face was suddenly Brown and shining. A handsome kid, really sharp gray eyes, lean and narrow-waisted, and when he died, it was almost beautiful the way the sunlight came around him and lifted him and sucked him high into ta ree full of moss and Vines white blossoms”(67). This whole quot shows the whole idea of how there is some kind of beauty in death especially when he talks about “The way the sunlight came around him” he is probably referencing how curt lemon is going to heaven and how his body is like an angel. That is ascending another part that is shown in the quot above is when he said “. A handsome kid, really sharp gray eyes, lean and narrow-waisted” The way that he is talking about how Curt lemon is and describing all of his features in this one split second. How he is talking about how beautiful he is when he is dying and the ways that the light hits him how it is all so

Tim O’Brien can have you relate to fear so much that fear that he had in that book that you can relate to it. He was able to show this when he was driving in his hometown.“Beyond all this, or at the very center, was the raw fact of terror. I did not want to die. Not ever. But certainly not then not there, not in a wrong war. Driving up Main street, past the courthouse, and the Ben Franklin store, I sometimes felt the fear spreading inside of me like weeds”(42). What this shows me is that there was a continuous fear of death that was as he said “I sometimes felt the fear spreading inside of me like weeds” As if it was always there and this undying thing that would keep slowly creping to wherever he was. There is also the idea of what he said above about “ I did not want to die. Not ever.” Witch makes the reader think about how everything dies eventually but he does not want to die ever he then makes you think about what fear is the character living with and why they are so scared of going to