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This 6 page paper is a reaction to Tim O’Brien’s classic Vietnam War novel, “The Things They Carried.” Bibliography lists 1 source.
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way that enables him to understand, even if only slightly, what it was like in "Nam" and why the veterans of that war are so different from any others. This
paper is a reaction to the book. Discussion The book can be seen as a collection of short stories with the same cast of characters: the grunts of Alpha Company
who slog through the heat and the wet and the terror of Vietnam. The book has a tremendous impact because it was written by someone who was there, and because
its a very personal account from someone whose voice is often lost in war stories, the ordinary grunt. This isnt a memoir by General Westmoreland, but a series of what
almost seem like snapshots, taken by an ordinary G.I. There are two important ways to approach the book; the first is to consider its structure and the second its
content. This may seem like a glimpse of the obvious, but we often plunge into analyzing meaning without stopping to consider how author put their books together. Here, OBrien has
assembled a loose collection of stories that, as noted, share the same cast. But the action isnt continuous; guys that are killed in early chapters show up again later, as
others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that good friends have; the ones that wander from sex to politics to cars to films to
travel to finances to education and back again, and go on until 4 a.m. The book is like that: it wanders all over the place with no real linear progression.
The effect is to make a reader feel as if he doesnt really know where he is or what might happen next, which can be considered analogous to the way
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