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In this book, Tim O'brien uncovers all his encounters in insight about the war; and also stories about his kindred warriors, and makes a genuine, yet over the top about them. He clarifies how he feels through stories that are hard to unmistakably distinguish as "genuine." This book has a great deal of subjects, demise and brutality is one of the real topics. A major topic and point in Tim O'Brien's novel is what number of circumstances hurt the warriors' lives. From the earliest starting point, O'Brien begins his work by numbering the numerous things warriors need to convey; Knives, firearms, pictures, and a few emotions and trust issues they had with their family before leaving for war. O'Brien lets us know and clarifies how every officer was harming, and how it was for them to get use to the war and nature they were in, as he says; "Jimmy Cross did not need the obligation of driving these men. He had never needed it." (167). In this quote, O'Brien uncovers how extreme it was for Lieutenant Cross to have this obligation in the war. O'Brien examined again and again, attempting to choose on the off chance that he needed to go to war and on the off chance that it was for him or not. …show more content…

For instance, it's demonstrated when O'Brien says; "They moved like donkeys. By sunlight they took expert rifleman discharge, around evening time they were mortared, however it was not a fight, it was only the unending walk, town to town, without reason, nothing won or lost." (15) In this quote, O'Brien demonstrates the obliviousness of the circumstance. Officers didn't recognize what they were there for, additionally, it demonstrated how they couldn't care less to be there and how it harmed them, rationally and physically.. O'Brien claims he is additionally appended to war in the meantime, he preferred it, however he likewise abhorred

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Vinne Virk Miss Kopietz/Block E Data Sheet The Things They Carried 22 Aug 2016 Data Sheet The Things They Carried Title: The Things They Carried Author: Tim O’Brien Date of Publication: 1990 Genre: Fiction Historical Information about the period of publication (cite source): On August 2, 1990, the Iraqi army invaded Kuwait.

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I should not fight in it” (56). He knows his mind and what he should or sound not fight for. O'Brien was more realistic with the chaplain and told him to stop trying to change his mindset, “I’m sorry to say this, I don’t think you’ll change my mind” (57). O’Brian is a powerful character and knows how he feels about the war. He disagrees with the Idea of violence.

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One of the four reasons, a true war story has no moral, is demonstrated to verify this chapter factual. O’Brien is torn between whether or not he should go off to war. He says, “Embarrassment, that’s all it was. And right then I submitted.” Although he decides to submit there is no lesson learned and it was purely

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“But from this point on he would comport himself as an officer…”. O'Brien repeats these three phrases to emphasize his point. I think the phrases "they carried" and "the things they carried" are stressed continuously in order to really state the fact that war can be burdensome and grueling. These words are thrown at the reader repeatedly because they hold weight.

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"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing"(O'Brien 20). The novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien is a collection of war story that focuses around his life and relationships with people in the Vietnam War, especially the part people usually choose not to focus on: the burden, the guilt and the regret. In the war stories it is forgotten that soldiers that fought in those wars are real people who had to deal with the consequences of their actions. O'Brien integrates this into the book by carving out Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, the highest ranking soldier in their group, to be the scapegoat.

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In Tim O’Brien’s short story, “The Things They Carried”, in which he speaks of a man referred to as “Lieutenant Jimmy Cross”, who is struggling in balancing his obsession with a woman named Martha back in New Jersey and handling his duties within his platoon in Vietnam. His love for her intrudes on the love he has for his men, after he is daydreaming about Martha he loses his awareness of his surroundings and one of his men, who is named Lavender, gets killed. In coping with this death it is explained that the reason soldiers deal with these “intangibles” such as death, love, and fear is all due the idea that, “they were too frightened to be cowards.” (O’Brien, 1990, p. 24). For it is not by courage that these men are being pushed but, by the sheer fact that they do not want to be seen as cowardice amongst the men they stand by.

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When Tim O’Brien writes “story-truth is sometime truer than the happening truth”, he is trying to claim that the nature of truth is that it never fully gets across or captures the whole entire experience from an individual’s perspectives of what happened in reality. Even the truth can seem to broad, posing as a lie because it does not give the full coverage of a certain situation that it should have. Hence, putting forth certain emotions which instantly pour out strengthens the overall mood of the story, making it seem more alive. In fact, Tim O’Brien lies about killing a man and admits that himself in the chapters of the novel. The passage which best substantiates my claims is “The Man I Killed.”

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How can one tell if something is true or not? How can one tell if what you hear or read is pure fiction or reality? These are questions I often asked myself when I read “The Things they Carried” by Tim O’Brien. You begin to ask these questions throughout the book but begin to realize that these type of questions don't matter. What matters is the deeper meaning that the author is trying to convey.

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True war stories are hard to tell, because of the guilt from things seen and those not seen. True stories do not allow the author to see things he never saw, so creating new images are necessary to create the story. True war stories are too subjective; even if it is true to someone it may not be true to the other. O’Brien says the only thing a true war story needs is to be asked if it is true, “and if it matters you got your answer” (O’Brien 79). It does not need to be factually true to make it a true war story.

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Soldiers, while in combat, have difficult thoughts going through their heads. “No, I can’t kill these people, it’s unethical. This is for my country, I have to do what it takes to protect my home.” Soldier are disillusion when going to war. They expect glory and honor, but in actuality, they will do the unspeakable and will not expect an impact on their life.

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“Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America, not on the battlefields of Vietnam”- Marshall Mcluhan. In the novel The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien uses his personal experiences to describe his time spent in Vietnam throughout the war. The reason the novel is written in a nonlinear format because he is writing the novel as he recalls his experiences. However, the main purpose of him writing the novel was to help people understand what the soldiers had went through and the truth about the Vietnam War is known to the public. Tim O’Brien uses themes such as storytelling/memory and morality to demonstrate the impact of the experiences the soldiers endured and how that has affected their daily lives.

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Even in my imagination, the shore just twenty yards away, I couldn’t make myself be brave. It had nothing to do with morality. Embarrassment, that’s all it was. And right then I submitted. I would go to the war—I would kill and maybe die—because I was embarrassed not to” (O’Brien 57) O’Brien might as well neglected the opportunity to go into the strife, but he choked up enough grit to become a solider.

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(CE) Before O'Brien heard about the war, he realized the war was something he did not want to participate in. (DE) He says to himself that [he] would not swim away from [his] hometown and [his] country and [his] life. [He] would not be brave” (O’Brien 55).

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O’Brien is not trying to give the readers a story of war; he wants to give an accurate telling of particular stories, teaching readers the truths and lies to a story, and finally the way people fail to accept the truth and decide to take a lie, no matter how accurate the story

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This is evident when Mr. O’Brien says, “I would go to the war – I would kill and maybe die – because I was embarrassed not to,” (pg. 57.) In the end the author realized what he must do and went back home, so he could fight in the Vietnam

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