Title Of The Things They Carried By Tim O Brien

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a text written about the numerous hardships that accompany war. The title of the novel does not exclusively represent the weapons and materials the men carried, but more importantly, represents the emotional, mental, and physical baggage they had to bear.
The title of this novel was the structure for the entire book. The title of the novel relates to the book because throughout the first chapter, O’Brien informs the reader of the actual materials each of the men normally carried, including objects such as guns and explosives, or even comic books and candy. Throughout the novel, O’Brien begins to write more about the emotional baggage the men had to carry. The writer tells about the stories and emotions

He mainly wrote about the man he killed. O’Brien talked in much detail of what the man looked like, what he thought he was like, and how he wished he could take it back. He was distraught and seemed very distant, and his friends could not seem to keep him from staring at the body and thinking about it. Tim focused on a butterfly that was flying around the body as a way to try to cope with the gruesome death, he kept doing that throughout the book during deaths. O’Brien was definitely affected by killing this man, and it added to the baggage he already was carrying. This shows that war is definitely hard and was especially hard for O’Brien because he was more sensitive and caring than a lot of his friends. This changed his view on the war and made him feel

On page 74, O’Brien says, “In a true war story, if there’s a moral at all, it’s like the thread that makes the cloth. You can’t tease it out. You can’t extract the meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning.” I believe that this sentence was one of the most important in the whole book, it really hit me. O’Brien is saying that most war stories do not have a moral, that there is no true lesson. Although, if there is a moral, you can not just ignore it or truly know the real meaning. He mentions “a true war story” again in the chapter “How to Tell a True War Story.” Tim says again that a true war story has no moral. “If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible life.” If you really read that and understand it, you know that he is saying that a war story does not instruct or inspire people, that a true war story is evil and harsh. “In other cases, you can’t even tell a true war story. Sometimes it’s just beyond