War In The Things They Carried By Tim O Brien

A man who served will go ballistic just hearing the word "war." The sounds of firearms, grenade blasts, and the cries of fallen colleagues can send shivers down their spines when they relive their time spent behind enemy lines. War has a significant impact on a veteran's way of life after serving in the military, in addition to flashbacks. The horrific recollections of a soldier's time spent fighting for his country crush the human spirit on a daily basis. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien places a strong emphasis on these topics. American author Tim O'Brien's collection of connected short stories The Things They Carried is about a platoon of American soldiers engaged in direct combat in the Vietnam War. According to his book, many of

However, for a number of military members who served in this fight, the war never truly ended. All men are impacted by war, according to Tim O'Brien's theories, but Norman Bower is one of his characters who best exemplifies this notion. According to Josefina Card, the author of the article “ Epidemiology of Ptsd in a National Cohort of Vietnam Veterans. Journal of Clinical Psychology”, “ Vietnam veterans in the high school class of 1963 reported significantly more problems related to nightmares, loss of control over behavior, emotional numbing, withdrawal from the external environment, hyperalertness, anxiety, and depression {...} (Card)”. These symptoms can be considered as PTSD. Among all of the characters, Norman Bower may be thought of as having undergone the most obvious change. Norman Bowker displayed a variety of PTSD symptoms. Chronic, frequently incapacitating episodes of stress brought on by a traumatic incident that has already transpired are symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. The events that Norman and his soldiers saw would have been extremely upsetting to a person. People with PTSD may commonly struggle to function with daily life and to blend in with society due to the nature of their unhappiness making it difficult for them to talk about and/or completely explain in general, leaving them highly agitated. Many of these signs and symptoms were displayed by Norman, including the

In part, writing is an effort to silence these things. Halfway through the war O’Brien finally knows what war and death is “War is hell, war makes you a man; war makes you dead” (O’Brien 80). War kills the innocence you have in your soul. Tim O’Brien put many stories about war in his novel so that this exemplifies this statement. The stories that he wrote explains how seeing all those dead bodies, killing, and torture can harm the mental health of anyone. It can harm your human