Medics Chapter 3 Summary

The author, Tim O'Brien, is writing about an experience of a tour in the Vietnam conflict. This short story deals with inner conflicts of some individual soldiers and how they chose to deal with the realities of the Vietnam conflict, each in their own individual way as men, as soldiers.

Generals Die in Bed certainly demonstrates that war is futile and the soldiers suffer both emotionally and physically. Charles Yale Harrison presents a distressing account of the soldiers fighting in the Western front, constantly suffering and eventually abandoning hope for an end to the horrors that they experience daily. The ‘boys’ who went to war became ‘sunk in misery’. We view the war from the perspective of a young soldier who remains nameless. The narrator’s experience displays the futility and horror of war and the despair the soldiers suffered. There is no glory in

Dear diary today is my first day as a nurse in Vietnam, I have to say that it not what I had expected. First off I expected to be in a big hospital building, with good equipment to work with. However I did not expect to work in small tents. There is very little room, and hard to move around with so many people. There are so many soldiers who are wounded, and can barely move. I have to say that this job is exhausting because more soldiers keep coming, some of the men

Most authors who write about war stories write vividly; this is the same with Tim O’Brien as he describes the lives of the soldiers by using his own experiences as knowledge. In his short story “The Things They Carried” he skillfully reveals realistic scenes that portray psychological, physical and mental burdens carried by every soldier. He illustrates these burdens by discussing the weights that the soldiers carry, their psychological stress and the mental stress they have to undergo as each of them endure the harshness and ambiguity of the Vietnam War. One question we have to ask ourselves is if the three kinds of burdens carried by the soldier’s are equal in size? “As if in slow motion, frame by frame, the world would take on the old

In "The Things They Carried," O'Brien made reference to the Vietnam war that was closely associated with the physical, psychological, and emotional weight the soldiers beared.  The overall method of presentation of this story incorporated many different outlooks on the things the soldiers carried, dealt with, and were forced to adapt to.  In addition to this, O'Brien showed us the many reasons why and how the soldiers posessed these things individually and collectively and how they were associated directly and indirectly.  The strong historical content in "The Things They Carried" helped emphasize the focus of the story and establish a clearer understanding of details in the

The Vietnam War generates the idea that time in violent environments can impact a person's emotional and physical health causing that person to lose sight of their morals and ethics. This is proven true in Tim O'Brien's novel, The Things They Carried. In O’Brien’s novel the author delivers to the reader a variety of war stories from unique perspectives of many American soldiers. By this, the reader can observe that O'Brien's narrations of war stories reveals the difficulties of the war and the purposelessness of it.

That is approximately ten thousand more than the 58,195 casualties reported during the Vietnam War. The Gulf War and the Vietnam War have much in common. Many believe that both wars were politically motivated and the trauma, both emotionally and physically that soldiers endured was in a sense, worthless. The real conflict in O’Brien’s story is the one that exists within each soldier. This story not only reflects the author’s way of blending fiction with autobiographical facts, but it also gives readers a glimpse of how the soldiers within a small military unit work together. O’Brien states in his book, “They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. That baggage consists of grief, terror, love, longing – these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had a tangible weight.” (O’Brien) This literary work goes on to tell the reader of all the tangible things the soldiers carried along with the intangible emotional baggage carried by each soldier. The theme of this story demonstrates that there is more to the war than fighting. War is hell, and its morals are corrupt. Some soldiers return from their deployments, and their lives and moral fabric

Although the glorification of being your “nations hero and fighting” for your country may seem worthwhile, it can lead to major metal and physical destruction. Similar to the First World War, the suffering of soldiers still evident. It’s inevitable that war has always caused struggles, and will continue to do so. War’s abominable pain is a burden on almost everyone, and it is nearly impossible to escape. Erich Richard’s Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front describes life of the soldiers during world war one and the toll it takes on them.

“I had been there to buy a soda, and I had gone over to talk to another guy and missed the blast by about ten or fifteen seconds,” testified Terry Smith, a Wisconsin native, on a lukewarm spring afternoon in May. Smith maintained a relaxed attitude as he told a nail-biting story of his near-death experiences in Vietnam. This particular story began when Terry Smith bought a soda from a young Vietnamese girl. Seconds after he bought the soda, the girl blew herself up and killed five out of the six soldiers waiting in line. While serving, Smith learned through his many experiences how essential was to be aware of his surroundings and those he associated with while in Vietnam. He quickly realized the Vietnam War would be a constant struggle. Thus, he assimilated

Tim O’Brien’s story “The Things They Carried” explains a story about a Vietnam soldier’s, and what they kept dear to them. O’Brien keeps the story by listing the different things that the men carried on them giving you a visual image and even an idea of the weight that the objects are. What’s so symbolic about this story that O’Brien has given the look on how soldiers even in war are still just like everyone else. They have feelings make mistakes even if they have a lot of responsibilities, and their mistakes can have a deep impact on them.

This article was written by Francis E. Kazemek about the book “The Things They Carried”. Kazemek was a teacher that studied “Vietnam War Literature”. Women served in the Vietnam War and helped out as nurses near the combat zone. About 33,000 - 55,000 women either served or worked with the civilization in Vietnam. 11,000 of those women served in war. The nurses experienced the same kind of trauma as the soldiers did. They started to develop PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that would last forever. Once the nurses started to treat the injured soldiers, they realized how danger they were in being in the combat zone. The things they saw were very graphic, many amputees. One of the nurses said that working here gets familiar, not easier. During

Imagine you are in a room of injured, sick, and dying people. There are very few doctors running around trying to help. They aren’t cleaning there tools after a surgery. They just move to the next person. A doctor just gave a sick man a bottle of water or oils saying this will cure him. This is a day of the Vietnam War. Think of the Cold War like a medicine, there are multiple side effects some big some little. The Vietnam War one just one of the many side effects. In this essay I will explain what life was like during Vietnam. What type of diseases were we affected with, and how we cured them. I will also write about what the long term effects of the diseases.

It was a bright, sunny morning in the Philippines. I woke to the sound of birds chirping and the quiet chatter of my fellow soldiers who had begun to prepare for the long day ahead of us. I rubbed my groggy eyes, attempting to relieve the constant effects of insomnia and to force myself to get moving. Sleep for a soldier was a highly revered pleasure, but when it came, it didn’t come in abundant amounts and it often left us feeling even more tired than we were before. Nevertheless, I had a country to defend and duties to fulfill. This was one of the many sacrifices of an American soldier – a position which I served with absolute honor and pride.

Modern day medics are way different from medics in the old days, such as W.W.1. W.W.1 was very unnecessary and confusing. Medical practice was not even thought of at the front lines at the beginning of the war. Men would be stuck out in no man's land for days. Many

While each day goes by more of a risk is being taken by the soldiers, if one soldier goes down another is responsible to carry his load. Personal doubts, fears, and dreams. The internal things they carried were much more significant than the physical