“The Things They Carried” is a short story created by Tim O’Brien. O’Brien tells, from the third person’s point of view, about soldiers and the items they carried during a war. He describes the weight of each object and gives clues or reason to why that soldier may tote them. One of the minor characters he introduces is a man named Henry Dobbins. In the text, O’Brien points out twice that Henry was a big man and show how it influenced few of the items he carried. Since he was a man of a larger stature, he required more necessities than the other men and was placed in a different position. Dobbins was the only solider that had packed extra rations and ate a tropical chocolate bar later in the story. In addition, he was the only machine gunner,