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O'Brien's The Things They Carried O’Connor remarks “The Things They Carried” is a short story that is written “as an experience not an abstraction” and that “the meaning has been embodied in it”. These quotations are truly pure in description and interpretation of the short story as the reader, must look beyond the crude physical properties of the objects and actions chronicled and focus more upon their hidden meanings and messages. O’Brien uses the physical characteristics of weight to make an impact upon the reader to relate with the men. In emphasizing the soldier’s everyday burden, the reader can easily relate to the situation in general. As the story progresses, the main attention of the

In the short story “The Things They Carried”, Tim O’Brien wrote about the experience of war and the feelings young soldiers felt during their long days of travel. During the story he keeps referring back to the things the soldiers chose to carry in their packs. Some of these items included necessity items like grenades and ammunition, but they also carry sentimental items like love letters and pictures. These items help the reader better understand each person for who they are and help us to understand the physical situation the soldiers are in. In “The Things They Carried”, Tim O’Brien describes the item the soldiers carry in their packs and the emotional weight they carry to help give a better

“The Things They Carried” was a story about soldiers caught in the confusion of the Vietnam War. There are a lot of apparent themes that are dealt with when writing a story about war, especially about death. I enjoyed reading this story; however there were some things about it that I was concerned about. I would like to discuss the author’s style of writing, his meaning of the title “The Things They Carried” and the way the author and his characters deal with death. This story was written with a variety of styles, and it was in a non-traditional format. The main style seems to be a third person, limited omniscient story. However, this story also includes elements of flashback. In a traditional flashback

In “The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien the theme of “carrying” both physical and emotional objects by the main characters can be found in the novel. While these men carry the same standard physical army gear, they differentiate with personal tangible and intangible items. From Lieutenant Cross’s responsibility of his men, to Henry Dobbin’s girlfriend’s pantyhose for its magic, each man faced the war with these things attached.

Carrying around a binder is convenient; however, the supplies most of times can not fit in the binder, therefore students have to carry them by hand. This is one way a student may lose or forget their classroom materials. A backpack can carry all the necessary supplies to make sure students do not forget anything. Bringing all the materials to class will ensure that students are ready and prepared for their next class, and having a backpack will help solve this

“War is hell, but that’s not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.” (80)

Like most my age, I am always equipped with a smart phone. Many would deem it necessary in this day and age. Some people get them as young as 10 years old. I only carry one per my parent's request. Not to say that I don’t enjoy the perks of having it with me: access to any answer for any question that might be asked, the capability to talk to my family and friends at any given moment throughout the day, and plenty of applications to screw around with if I find myself with extra time. It weighs almost nothing, so light that at any given moment I will panic because I worry I lost it. It holds a different kind of weight though. It is heavy in the moments that it is “lost”, when there is a fear that it is not with me,

In the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien the author tells about his experiences in the Vietnam war by telling various war stories. The quote, "It has been said of war that it is a world where the past has a strong grip on the present, where machines seemed sometimes to have more will power than me, where nice boys (girls) were attracted to them, where bodies ruptured and burned and stand, where the evil thing trying to kill you could look disconnecting human and where except in your imagination it was impossible to be heroic." relates to each of his stories.

In the story The Things They Carry by Tim O’Brien, you will notice that the author uses things that can be carried as a metaphor for the things that we all carry, even the things we can’t let go. Tim O’Brien uses a lot of different ways to show how hard it is to carry your emotions when you are in a combat situation, but the main way you see it illustrated is through the events that have happened to First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross squad while out on a march. You also will see that each solider must change just so they can survive which means they will end up holding on to a lot of grief, because they will bury it inside themselves.

The title of the story referrers directly to the things the soldiers carried. “Each soldier manfully carrying his own weight, but also sharing the burden of war” (Smith 25). The list of the things seems endless and the weight seems unbearable. “O’Brien introduces the reader to some of the things, imaginary and concrete, emotional and physical, that the average foot soldier had to carry through the jungles of Vietnam” (Kaplan 44). The author in details described the weight and the meaning of each carried item, thus convincing the reader of the events reality. Some of the things they carried were personal hygiene necessities. The other things were required equipment, or “whatever seemed appropriate as a means of killing or staying alive” (O’Brien 478). Other things they carried were useless and impossibly heavy, however, soldiers carried them anyway to create the illusion of safety. Besides equipment and necessities, each of them carried items which help them

“The Things They Carried”, written by Tim O’Brien, has the theme of physical, emotional, and mental burden in a series of detailed paragraphs in which he tells of all physical and psychological vexations. One of the most followed characters, Jimmy Cross, physically carries several key items that aid in the survival of his men. As platoon leader, cross carries “…a compass, maps, code books, binoculars, and a .45-caliber…” Not only does he carry these physical things, but each man in the platoon all carry objects based on necessity. “

Have you ever found yourself carrying something heavy for a long period of time? Do you remember feeling pain, or wanting to drop the object because it was too much to bear? Tim O’brien’s novel, The Things They Carried, is about men in the middle of the Vietnam War just trying to survive. These men, like all soldiers, carried many things ranging from the physical items of war to the emotional and mental weight that comes along with the horrors of war. “They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they

In a review titled "The baggage we carry weighs more than all of our suitcases" by Jann Malone, we actually get to see how the author, Tim O'Brien, himself actually explains the symbolism that the items the soldiers have mean. O'Brien states that the items they carry can be viewed as personal problems, thoughts, emotions, etc. that we all carry. "it's also about the things all of us carry through our lives" (Malone, 1). He goes on to say ""We all have fears, loneliness, guilt. And we all know those

For example, one of the “weightiest” items in “The Things They Carried” are a bundle of letters carried by Lt. Cross from Martha, a girl he had some romantic encounters with back home. The letters themselves do not carry much physical weight, as they are so light their mass is not described, and are not even love letters. However, they carry a great deal of emotional weight for Lt. Cross, as he reads the “mostly chatty, elusive on the matter of love” letters every night and fantasize about a relationship with Martha (366). The emotional weight is reinforced by Cross’ imagined cave-in in a tunnel, trapped with Martha; he imagines being buried alive with her, fantasizing about being smothered in a “Dense, crushing love” (373). Repeatedly over the course of the story, Cross returns to his fantasies of Martha, reading and rereading letters, gazing at the two pictures he carries of her, imagining new scenarios, creating a depth to their relationship that Cross knows isn’t there, and reliving events with dreams of “things he should’ve done” (369). Cross constantly carries, and sometimes sucks on, a “good-luck pebble” sent to him by his beloved

People carry things with them all the time on a daily basis. They might be physical, emotional or spiritual things. Some people could carry a traumatic past while others simply carry a bag of groceries into their house. The things one carries defines them as a person and brings out their qualities as well as their defects. Some people might think of those things as burdens while others see them as a way out of reality or as something to push them forward, something to believe in.