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A 4 page paper which examines how the book is political, considers whether or not it is a work of fiction, and discusses how the reader knows whether or not the text is a work of fiction. No additional sources are used.
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File: TG15_TGtothings.rtf
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what is merely the figment of a fertile imagination. Tim OBrien is a talented author who knows how to tell a good story that has elements of truth strategically
interwoven with fictional characters and situations. His vivid text, The Things They Carried, appears to be a brutally realistic memoir of the Vietnam War, containing a hodgepodge of what
seem to be deeply personal experiences and recollections of the members of the Alpha Company. It becomes readily apparent within the first few pages that this is a strong
antiwar political statement. OBrien begins by examining what soldiers would take with them into combat, which ranged from the sublime (The New Testament) to the ridiculous (Kool-Aid), as a
way of holding onto tangible items as a way of preparing themselves for something intangible - the spectre of death that always awaited them on the battlefield and the guilt
that remained with those who had somehow escaped it. For years, Vietnam has been regarded as a politically incorrect war, and this view is perhaps even stronger among those
who fought and sacrificed for it than those who protested against it. The Things They Carried drives this point home poignantly without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things
They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named Tim OBrien. That is not where the similarities ended. Both were men in their early 40s
who hailed from Minnesota, were members of the same Phi Beta Kappa fraternity, graduated from Macalester College, were drafted into the Vietnam War, and authored books of the same titles.
This leads the reader to believe the book is a true story. There is also a dedication included that lists each member of the Alpha Company by name
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