Deception In The Things They Carried

The Things They Carried is an influential reflection possible experience of soldiers up close and in their minds during and after the Vietnam War. The work is, at the same time, O’Brian’s memoir, but also collection of fictional short stories. Throughout the book O’Brien straightaway shapes the line between fact and fiction by consecrating the novel on to the individual soldiers, where the reader soon discovers that they are fictional characters. O’Brian continues to confuse the audience with this ‘blurring’ between fiction and reality by creating this Vietnam veteran “Tim O’Brien.” With the inserting of this imaginary character this allows O’Brien to relive or express his true feelings but seen and read as fictional ideas. This deception immediately tests us whether or not we can discard this as a story of fiction when it could actually be true. O’Brien’s presented this type of novel not just because of the Vietnam War but as a piece of storytelling. Storytelling throughout the novel is an expression of memory and a release of the past. Many of the characters as they move through Vietnam seek resolve of some kind of ____.
While author O’Brien and character O’Brien share a number of likenesses, the reader should keep in
In The Things They Carried, O’Brien puts himself and his characters into this debate, using persuasive descriptions and images like bringing a civilian into the war and how it changes her to other images like the young Vietnamese girl dancing in the middle of wreckage and bodies. As well as the character ______ who guns down a water buffalo because his best friend died. The stories presented to the reader give them the chance to take sides on several of these disputes. The readers are continuously being reminded that their own ideas are what shape the story believing them as true or