Redployment In Tim O Brien's The Things They Carried

The Vietnam and Iraq war killed more people mentally than physically. The Vietnam War is told through many stories from Tim O’Brien’s experiences and the other soldiers in his platoon. Like O’Brien, Phil Klay shares multiple stories from his experiences in the Iraq war, and how it affected him mentally before and after the war. The Things They Carried is a story by Tim O’Brien of his past and present experiences from the war, it also includes stories from his old platoon members, all of them telling stories of the horrible things they saw, and how it affected them, and O’Brien how he feels like he needs to write it down to prove how evil the war was on people. The Things They Carried is interrelated with Redployment because they both have multiple

The only difference between him and O’Brien is he wanted to fight in the war, which he soon later regretted, and, like O’Brien, shares his experiences during the war and how it destroyed them mentally and physically forever. By looking at the use of perspective in the novels The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien and Redeployment by Phil Klay, they use perspective to show the raw emotions of different soldiers during the war, it is evident that Tim O’Brien and Phil Klay both claim that the strong soldiers who survived hardship not only carried physical items, they carried the weight of the war on their shoulders, which is important because it showed what soldiers had to endure during war times, and the everlasting effect it had on them. By looking at the use of perspective in The Things They Carried, the raw emotions of different soldiers are exposed during the war. The things they carried were largely determined by necessity” (O’Brien,