The Effects People Don 'T See In The Things They Carried By Tim O' Brien

The Effects People Don’t See

Perspective is something that many people view differently in this world, some people may never know what it's like being put through hard circumstances and different experiences. But sometimes people never get to share or tell their perspective. This is relevant to soldiers because people never see the bravery or courage it took them in war and out of war. However, Vietnam was a civil war where it came to the needs of American assistance also why it's called the “American war” Tim’ O'Brien the author of The Things They Carried is in this war physically and emotionally, the battles he and his platoon had to go through experienced many different emotions. Tim O’Brien illustrates how soldiers go through emotional

O’Brien notes, “ Even now I haven't finished sorting it out. Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I don’t. In the ordinary hours of life I try not to dwell on it, but now and then, when I'm reading a newspaper or just sitting alone in a room, I'll look up and see the young man step out of the morning fog. (128)” Tim O'Brien himself still thinks about the hard gruesome moments of war even many years after it happened. He says in the book that writing everything down makes him cope with this traumatic experience. He uses his courage to help himself through hard times thinking about the war and everything he has been through. Soon after finding out about Kiowa's death Lieutenant Jimmy Cross wanted to go back to the fields to find him under any circumstances because no man would be left behind. He knew how good of a soldier and brother Kiowa is to everyone, but the thing is the field where he died has caused people to have many different emotions into finding him but that is the fear, shame, and courage that everyone has to face. O’Brien talks about Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, “But he was determined to find his man, no matter what, even if it meant flying in slabs of concrete and damming up the river and draining the entire field. (156)” Not only visiting back to the place that traumatized soldiers the most but also looking for the dead body of a fellow conrad can cause emotional scars. Even though the men didn’t want to- they pushed away there fears and shame to get the courage to go into the muddy field to look for their friend. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross knew how war went and how soldiers would die, but Kiowa's death hit him a little differently. He realized Kiowa's death was on him knowing that it was