Emotions In The Things They Carried By Tim O Brien

O’Brien was confused about death when his girlfriend died, he felt so strongly for her even at a young age. He would daydream about her and this kept her alive in his mind. He realized that storytelling and imagination could keep the dead alive. The way he deals with her death helps him to deal with death during Vietnam and later the stories help him to deal with the difficulties he’s had in life.

Weak — Linda fears nothing more than loosing her husband however this is the very cause of his death. This lets Willy stamp over her with ridicule but according to her Willy is “only a little boat looking for a harbor”.

The central theme and true meaning of courage is shown vividly in numerous instances throughout Tim O’Brien’s classic novel The Things They Carried. O’Brien’s novel begins with the courage of coming of age, along with the author’s loss of his innocence. Tim, the protagonist of this novel, goes through an incredible change in belief when he must choose to either run away from the Vietnam War or unwillingly join the bloody battle, of which he strongly did not have faith in. The main courageous occurrence that O’Brien was showing the reader was the fear of going to war, and the integrity behind holding ones beliefs and morals in fighting for their country. The Things They Carried shows

Tim O’Brien brings the Vietnam War back to life in The Things They Carried (1990) and elucidates the wounds suffered by soldiers during and after the war. The three main characters in this novel that exemplify the physical, social, and emotional wounds are Tim O’Brien, Norman Bowker, and Mark Fossie. These men go through immense pain both during and after the war, which is not easy to heal.

The war of Vietnam played a significant role in Tim O’Brien’s life throughout his works and experiences. He was drafted to the Vietnam war after graduating college in 1968 where he served two years. O’Brien wrote the novel The Things They Carried after returning from the war as a way to clear off his mind from the experiences he went through. In the novel he constructed many memories that may or may not be true, but are told using imagination as a guide to explore the mind of the readers. O’Brien used his novel to liberate his many occurrences he faced and dealt with throughout his journey. In an interview with Michael Coffey on Patrick Smith’s article O’Brien states, “My goal was to write something utterly convincing but without any rules as to what’s real and made up…” (97). Tim O’Brien uses imagination to establish a therapy within his writing as a way to cope with reality based on his war transition, allusions, and stories to save him.

The Vietnam War was a long, hard, and destructive war. The Vietnam War scarred O’Brien very much and he felt a way to escape from his memories and experiences were to write them down and create them into a story. I know this because the whole novel had to do with the experiences that O’Brien had gone through and at the end of the novel he saw that him writing “The Things They Carry” as “Tim trying to save Timmy’s life with a story” meaning that it was almost as though writing about his experiences brought back his innocence and happiness that he had as a child that the war had stripped him from.

The novel, The Things They Carried is a story of one man’s accounts resulting to his tour of duty in Vietnam. Many of the men that are discussed in the book continued to be effected by the war, long after they returned home. Men were left emotionally scared, even if they managed to get out of the war physically unharmed. The

Tim O'Brien builds an argument in “The Things They Carried” to convey the realities felt by the soldiers in the vietnam war through many ways. His purpose of this book was to make people aware of all the soldiers struggles and what they when through. He conveyed his message through the use of of evidence, like facts and examples to support his claims made. He uses reasoning to develop his ideas and last but not least Tim O'Brien uses word choice and appeal to emotion to add to the ideas expressed throughout the passage. To begin with, Tim O’Brien has many claims throughout “The Things They Carried” but each and every one of those claims would be nothing without the evidence that he gives along with facts and examples.

The Vietnam War. A war that many Americans believed unfair and unnecessary. “Why am I being sent off to fight in a war I don’t know anything about? Will I ever return again?” Many draftees asked themselves these questions hoping to find comfort in the answers. But there was little to no hope, and they knew it. They were being drafted and they could do absolutely nothing about it, only hope that at the end they would be returning to the enlightened faces of their loved ones, something that not many Vietnam soldiers expected to ever see again. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, portrays his experience in the war along with his fellow squad members, in their fight for survival against the Vietcong. In The Things They Carried, each

Tim O’Brien’s, The Things they Carried is a riveting tale of struggle and sacrifice, self indulgence and self pity, and the intrapersonal battles that reeked havoc on even the most battle tested soldiers. O’Brien is able to express these ideas through eloquent writing and descriptive language that makes the reader feel as if he were there. The struggle to avoid cowardice is a prevailing idea in all of O’Brien’s stories.

he tries to convince her to seize the day. And because of this love he felt

Linda has a very distinctive personality. She more animated than Nick or Susan. Yet, the story tends to focus more on her relationship with Nick, when it seems (given the ending dedication) that the script should focus more on

To Willy, Linda is the woman that he has been married to all this time. Now instead of seeing Linda as a beautiful, young woman, like the one he once married, she is now an old, tired woman that has aged over time. Willy seems to think that his wife is annoying by the way he interrupts her when she is speaking. He

As she embraces Tommy in the hotel, the reader receives the sense that her lover could essentially be anyone. He loses all face and name and becomes another pawn, another performer within the "moment."

     Neil Herbert then becomes a grown man, still admiring his child hood love, Mrs. Forrester. When Neil finds out that Mrs. Forrester is secretly writing to a man named Frank Ellinger, he becomes extremely saddened because he knows its wrong of her due to already being married. Despite knowing this Neil still expresses his love for her and he would even, ¡°make a bouquet for a lovely lady; a bouquet gathered off the cheeks of morning. The author in a way tells the reader that Neil still has that unending desire of love for Mrs. Forrester. For instance, one time as Neil went to Mrs. Forrester¡¯s room to surprise her with a bouquet of flowers, he heard her laugh and ¡°then another laugh, very different, a