the things they carried
The Things They Carried
By Tim O’Brien
Tim Obrien’s The Things They Carried is written about the horrors of war. In war soldiers go through many things such as death of a friend or even having to kill someone themselves. Everyone deals with these things in different way. Tim Obrien writes story’s about the people he has lost or killed to keep them alive himself. Thought the entire novel most chapters are about the people in the war and the things they carried. But in the final chapter of the novel he doesn’t talk about war. He brings up an old child love of his. A girl named Linda who died when Tim and her we very little. He talks about how he keeps her alive in his head. Even though he knows she isn’t really there.
The novel doesn’t have any particle order. All of the stories are out of place. Only a few would you have to read before you read other chapters. Such as when Kiowa died. The two chapters following it had to be read after the chapter where he dies otherwise it wouldn’t make any sense. But all of the other chapters don’t have any specific order. They can all be read from beginning to end. But focusing on the last chapter, it is different from all the rest because it doesn’t focus on war. Obrien talks about his first date with a young girl when they were about eight. He talks about how they were madly in love even though he couldn’t even hug her good night when the date was over. As this beautiful love story goes on we find out that Linda has some sort of cancer. It doesn’t look like she is going to make it. This is obviously very sad. She’s a young girl and Tim doesn’t really understand death at this point. When she dies Tim goes to her funeral and he imagines her alive again. She would hold his hand and say “Timmy stop crying” this is a beautiful moment because Tim is for the first time doing what he would do in war from then on.
Ted brings Linda back to life in his mind just as the men in his camp shake there fallen soldiers hand and
By Tim O’Brien
Tim Obrien’s The Things They Carried is written about the horrors of war. In war soldiers go through many things such as death of a friend or even having to kill someone themselves. Everyone deals with these things in different way. Tim Obrien writes story’s about the people he has lost or killed to keep them alive himself. Thought the entire novel most chapters are about the people in the war and the things they carried. But in the final chapter of the novel he doesn’t talk about war. He brings up an old child love of his. A girl named Linda who died when Tim and her we very little. He talks about how he keeps her alive in his head. Even though he knows she isn’t really there.
The novel doesn’t have any particle order. All of the stories are out of place. Only a few would you have to read before you read other chapters. Such as when Kiowa died. The two chapters following it had to be read after the chapter where he dies otherwise it wouldn’t make any sense. But all of the other chapters don’t have any specific order. They can all be read from beginning to end. But focusing on the last chapter, it is different from all the rest because it doesn’t focus on war. Obrien talks about his first date with a young girl when they were about eight. He talks about how they were madly in love even though he couldn’t even hug her good night when the date was over. As this beautiful love story goes on we find out that Linda has some sort of cancer. It doesn’t look like she is going to make it. This is obviously very sad. She’s a young girl and Tim doesn’t really understand death at this point. When she dies Tim goes to her funeral and he imagines her alive again. She would hold his hand and say “Timmy stop crying” this is a beautiful moment because Tim is for the first time doing what he would do in war from then on.
Ted brings Linda back to life in his mind just as the men in his camp shake there fallen soldiers hand and