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The Things They Carried Literary Analysis

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The Things They Carried is work of historical fiction that was published in America in 1990. This book is one of many narratives about the Vietnam war written by Tim O’Brien, a Vietnam war veteran. In the The Things They Carried, the author recounts and shares the experiences of a group of soldiers in the Vietnam war. In the Interactive Oral, O’Brien reveals that his reason for publishing this book was to express how he felt about the abstractness of war, and he accomplished this through fabricated stories. O’Brien also tries to communicate to the reader that war is not always necessary, he gives an example of how a bullet might kill an enemy but that same bullet can create an enemy, this expresses his feeling of futility towards the Vietnam
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