The Things They Carried is a 1990 collection of short stories by Tim O'Brien about a platoon of American soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War. The stories follow the members of O'Brien's platoon, their traumas, their values, their losses and hopes. Although much of the stories reflects real events, O'Brien wrote the stories as fiction, believing that, unlike a chronicle of purely-factual information, fiction better conveyed the emotional and experiential truth of the war.
The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien expresses the importance of a story truth as opposed to a happening truth by use of literary elements in his writing The novel is about war and the guilt it leaves on everyone involved in the war The four literary devices he uses to express this are diction imagery juxtaposition and hyperbole All of these elements allow the reader to identify emotion that is expressed in each story as though that were the complete truth OBriens diction is descriptive OBrien
The Things They Carried Tim OBrien was an infantryman in during Vietnam War He used those experiences to write many short stories including The Things They Carried The story portrays how the things they carried were weightless in comparison to their feelings of love and loss fear and shame and the torturous memories of death They all carried emotional baggage of men who might die Grief terror love longing these were intangibles but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity they ha
The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien has many chapters throughout it which exemplify the Vietnam experience Certain chapters in the book though including How to Tell a True War Story and On the Rainy River exemplify many different parts of the Vietnam experience How to Tell a True War Story is one of the most symbolic chapters in the entire book The chapter talks about how Curt Lemon was killed while playing catch with Rat Kiley one afternoon when he stepped on a 105 round As the chapter conti
Mysterious Ways of Tim OBrien Have you ever heard a war story Has anyone in your family told you about the Vietnam war Well these stories have many real and truthful fact But how do you know theres not lie in them Based on all of that your still hooked on hearing the story In The Things They Carried author Tim OBrien explains how telling a true war story is mad of lies exaggeration and real fact about the war through the use of metafictional devices If and when a war story is told pay attention
Development Through Lists and Repetition In The Things They Carried The Things They Carried is a story by Tim OBrien that is comprised of many short stories that all come together to tell a winding tale from many viewpoints of one war story through the Vietnam war The first story in the book also entitled The Things They Carried is literally a story about what the soldiers carried with them both physically and emotionally As an introductory story to the entire novel OBrien uses the opportunity
The Things They Carried is a short story by author Tim OBrien It is an account of an officer Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and his soldiers touring in Vietnam The story begins with our main character Lt Cross fantasizing over letters from a woman he loves across seas Martha The story immediately follows into detailed lists and descriptions of equipment the men carry out of necessity habit or fear Intertwined in the story among the descriptions of the mens possessions fears and attitudes is the story o