Eisenschmidt 1

Joshua Eisenschmidt

Professor Valdina
English 101
November 25, 2004
The Weight They Carried
The Vietnam War has sparked many writers to create novels and autobiographies about their experiences and horrors of the war. Tim O'Brien has written several Vietnam stories and books about his experience and has received many awards including the very prestigious French award, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger award for fiction for his book The Things They Carried (Book Reporter). In a prepublication interview in 1989, O'Brien himself was quoted in saying, "my best book. There's no doubt in my mind about it." (Naparsteck, 8). The Things They Carried is broken up into a collection of short stories put together within the book. Readers should understand that even though the actual and fictional O'Briens have some things in common, The Things They Carried is a work of fiction, but truth can be found within this work of fiction. Each part of the book is essential in......

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Title: The Things They Carried
Approximate Word Count: 1966
Approximate Pages: 8 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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