The Things They Carried is a novel by Tim O'Brien that makes someone face reality. War is crazy. Some things seem true and other things they just don’t know what to think. Surrealism means not real. Surrealism has a big part in the war. The hard thing is figuring out what’s not true and what is. It can be tricky, some things that may be false sound like they can’t be made up. Then that’s when their imagination takes over. They have to fight with their imagination and comprehend what they think is real.
War is truly crazy. War is hell. When someone is at war they tend to get lonely. That can also cause someone to have illusions. They can also make things up so that war doesn't seem as bad. They just can’t face reality.