Summary Of The Things They Carried By Tim O Brien

The Things We Carried by Tim O’Brien is a fiction novel that describes the experience from a soldier's’ perspective during the Vietnam War. O’Brien describes what is is like to carry things physically and emotionally. He inform us on what it is like to carry all the the guns, the food, the ammo, the gear, medical equipment, etc. O'Brien also describes what is like to emotionally carry things. He and his group of brother felt pain like when Lieutenant Jimmy Cross felt like it was his fault whenever he lost one of his brothers. They felt miserable when they walked through a field of human manure. The group of men don't see the dead as dead, they make them come to life simply with imagination. They imagine because none of there brothers are dead,

The first setting is when he's at war with his brothers in Vietnam, a country in Asia, and the second setting is when O’Brien and his brothers are home after war. O’brien lived in minnesota. Those are the two main settings. They are multiple settings throughout the book. In the beginning of the book is when O’brien gets drafted but doesn't want to go so he goes to Minnesota border to cross the Canada border to escape but he is held back because he feels like he has to fight for his country. The historical time period of the book is during the Vietnam war. The war lasted from the year 1955 to the year 1975. The war took place in North and South Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos in vietnam were bases for military purposes like

He was born on October 1, 1946 and grew up in Austin, Minnesota. He is a author to many books, for example “ If I Die In Combat Zone’ also “In the Lake of The Woods”. Tim O’brien chose to write this book to express the feeling of each of his brothers at war because during war it’s not easy to get through everyday knowing that this day can be your last. That sometimes your mind can go a little out of control. Learning how to adapt to the environment and learning how to adopted with things that come across your path. He also wrote this book because coming home after war is no celebration because his brother Norman, after war, killed himself because he couldn't handle what he saw and did. No one could understand what happened, only his brothers who were with him at war , could understand. The viewpoint O’brien express is that during war, as a soldier, you learn to deal with things that come at you. Everything you face is war: people, weather, death. The things They Carried is a eye witness and and true story that can also be considered false. The story is true and false because O'brien explains that when a soldier who is at war tells a story they tend to exaggerate and make up lies on the way because that's how they felt at the moment but in reality it is false. In the chapter The Man I Killed, O'Brien tells us that he killed a man. He felt horrible about killing this young boy because he felt like he just ruined a life