What Weighs More?
A Demonstrative Essay on
"The Things They Carried"
By Tim O'Brien

In his story "The Things They Carried," Tim O'Brien describes a group of soldiers marching through Vietnam. He does this by describing the items that each of them carries with him during the march. The things that the soldiers carry with them are both physical and emotional items. What they carried varied from man to man. They carry the basic "necessities" for survival (if you can consider such things as M&M's a necessity) and the bare minimum to make life as livable as possible. But they also carry memories, and fears, and it the emotional items like these that are the main focus of the story. The weight of the emotional items is as real as that of any physical ones, and unlike those physical objects, they are not so easily cast away.
Throughout the story, O'Brien changes between common conversations between the soldiers to simple descriptions of the items that the soldiers are carrying.......

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Title: The Things They Carried...What Weighs More?
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