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his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...

and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...

with those people. Id be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to i...

in Vietnam. As the war fades further into the past, its important that authors like OBrien continue to remind Americans of the dif...

with a wretched climate where theyre always hot and miserable, where they cant tell friend from foe, and where half their battles ...

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

sense of purpose. An examination of this novel demonstrates that reading this novel would be, in all likelihood, totally demoraliz...

rather jumbled form in both of these novels proves to be the perfect medium for reflecting the chaotic psychological landscape of ...

him a reason to keep going. Its the illusion that he will come through the war unhurt, return to the States and take up a normal l...

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

incredibly exaggerated that his stories were immensely entertaining. But, in the case of OBriens novel one must perhaps insist tha...

attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...

to be examined is Jimmy Cross. The narrator indicates that, "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha...

Bowker has faced tremendous adversity within his life; having addressed his combat circumstances with a combination of strength an...

from the text. However, the traumatic experiences that torture him do come out, but, they do so slowly, in bits and pieces. Somet...

totally true (p. 89). The sole criteria that OBrien supports for telling a "true" war story is this: "It comes down to gut instin...