For young people, the Vietnam War is a thing of the past and

they can only learn about it from second hand sources. In Tim

O'brien's The Things They Carried, it becomes very apparent that

the Vietnam conflict has proved to be one that many of the

participants have not been able move away from, while getting on

with their lives. O²brien shows that the conflict takes on a

parasitic form that eats away on its victims for the rest of

their lives.

A parasite is defined as an organism that grows, feeds, and is

sheltered on or in a different organism while harming its host.

The war in this case takes the place of the organism, and the

host becomes the soldiers. There are several examples of the

parasitic nature of war through out the book. In one particular

section, Tim O'Brien returns to Vietnam with his daughter. Twenty

years had gone by, but it seems as though all of his thoughts are

geared back to the time he had spent in the jungle so long

before.......

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Title: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried Eating Them Away
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