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A 4 page paper which examines why Tim, in Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried,” went to war and how it affects him. No additional sources cited.
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to fight for their country, to fight for the freedoms of the nation, to fight for some ideal, or they may simply be curious or wish to leave home and
find adventure. Interestingly enough, it seems that only those men who wish to fight for an ideal or for their country really ever come out of wars intact. For many
young men war is a destructive force that affects the mind, the heart, and the soul. Tim OBriens novel "The Things They Carried" is a powerful look at how war
affects many men during Vietnam. The following paper examines why the character of Tim went to war and how the war affected him. "The Things They Carried" One
of the biggest reasons that Tim went to war was because of guilt and pressure. His internal desires led him to wish he could simply run away, run to Canada
and avoid the war altogether. He states, "I feared the war, yes, but I also feared exile" (OBrien 44). He notes that he feared being ridiculed and censure from the
people in his small town, and from his family. He notes that sometimes, when he couldnt sleep, he envisioned fighting back at these people: "Id sometimes carry on fierce arguments
with those people. Id be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it
platitudes, how they were sending me off to fight a war they didnt understand and didnt want to understand" (OBrien 45). In this one can see that he surely
did not want to go to Vietnam. He did not want to fight, and he did not want to kill or be killed. But, as an American, under the pressures
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