The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien



Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is not a novel about the Vietnam

War. It is a story about the soldiers and their experiences and emotions that

are brought about from the war. O'Brien makes several statements about war

through these dynamic characters. He shows the violent nature of soldiers

under the pressures of war, he makes an effective antiwar statement, and he

comments on the reversal of a social deviation into the norm. By skillfully

employing the stylistic technique of specific, conscious detail selection and

utilizing connotative diction, O'Brien thoroughly and convincingly makes each

point.



The violent nature that the soldiers acquired during their tour in Vietnam is

one of O'Brien's......

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