What Was Going Through Cross By Tim O Brien

Tim O'Brien is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War. The topic of the book goes through the experiences of soldiers during the Vietnam War and expresses both the physical and metaphorical things the soldiers had to carry with them while deployed. His purpose for writing the book was to recount his personal experience in the Vietnam War and allow him to comment on the war. I chose this book because I thought it would be an interesting read and I would be able to learn more about how a soldier in the Vietnam War felt while deployed. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a story of his recalling of events that provides an honest depiction while maintaining an enjoyable read which shows how the soldiers were changed in the war. Tim O’Brien was born in 1946 in Austin, Minn. He served

The author’s thesis, “And if they made it home alive, they carried unrelenting images of a nightmarish war that history is only beginning to absorb.” The author showed this by explaining what was going through Cross’ mind at the beginning and how it changes into guilt after losing one of his men, he then lives with that loss while believing his daydreaming and distractedness caused him to lose his men. Another time where he proved his thesis is when O’Brien tells of when a man nicknamed Lemon was killed. He recalls that a joke was told, he took a half step then a booby-trapped 105 round blew him into a tree. The memory of how it happened remains vivid and with thorough details and recalling the sequence of events that led to it, even after 20 years, some images cannot be so easily forgotten. The author has the bias that nothing good can come from war. He remembers the death that surrounded him, from the first body he saw of an old man to the men he served with who he would call a