A Deconstruction of The Things They Carried Tim OBriens story was very hard hitting and visual for me His use of diction and sentence structure played in well with the point he was trying to convey When first reading the title of this short story you can imagine what you are getting into The things soldiers carried with them through out their escapades one would usually think of physically heavy items first OBrien listed almost anything you could think of the men carrying After each object stat
I never noticed this before but a common theme for books in disillusionment Disillusionment is when you are freed from your beliefs or illusions that you have created and ejected into the truth In the books The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien each of the characters is disillusioned in a unique way and they all cope with it in very different ways In The Great Gatsby the main character Jay Gatsby was harshly disill
Its interesting to think about the things people might carry with them if they were forced to go to war Would you sacrifice a little extra weight to bring a good luck charm or an extra gun and ammunition to provide more safety In Tim OBriens The Things They Carried much of the story is spent describing the certain weapons materials and emotional burdens the men in Viet Nam carried Even though some soldiers such as Mitchell Sanders carry extremely heavy objects like the PRC 25 radio a killer twe
The Things They Carried a novel written by Tim OBrien raises the question of the extent of truthfulness of stories that are told from experience in which the novel is solely based on the accounts of war veterans and their lives in Vietnam The soldiers fighting in the war describe certain stories that have affected them the most and from that readers can interpret that the armed forces are able to capture the attention of their listeners through providing immense detail of the conditions adding
In the short story Janus by Ann Beattie the central character is not a real character at all but in fact is an inanimate object The cream colored ceramic bowl serves as the main character throughout the story and is correlated to the Roman God Janus that is identified primarily with doors or other places of passage and is also represented as being two faced Janus is one of two characters with names which is also evident of her importance throughout the story The author uses the character of And
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad tells the story of Marlow a Brit of a Belgian company which is imperializing the African Congo area and in search of the successful infamous Kurtz The excerpt Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong from Things They Carried by Tim OBrian is about a young woman Mary Anne who comes to stay with a troop in Vietnam during the war Although these stories manifest on separate continents the structures and themes are strikingly similar Both Heart of Darkness and Sweetheart of
Tim O Brien s How to Tell a True War Story is from his novel of collected interrelated stories titled The Things They Carried 1990 O Brien uses his own Vietnam War experiences to create grotesque and beautiful scenes and events With the help of Roland Barthes narrative codes O Brien lucidly illustrates a clear picture of events to provide the reader the feeling of being there O Brien s skilled writing abilities provide detail throughout this piece however the use of the cultural connotative and
The Things They Carried is an ambitious collection of short stories about the Vietnam War But that description while wholly accurate is completely inadequate The stories penetrate deeply into the complexities of the phenomena of war to an extent that may be unparalleled so affixing it with the label Vietnam War stories potentially obscures the many themes that are woven into the text What makes Tim OBriens book particularly powerful is the way he uses the prism of war to illuminate larger truth