An Essay drawing connections between the Vietnam War and the fictional novel of "The Things They Carried".
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 05:09:17
Category: / Society & Culture / Education
Length: 8 pages (2281 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / Education
Length: 8 pages (2281 words)
Emotions of War: Parallels Between "The Things They Carried" and the real Vietnam
War is like fog, it moves to and fro, it comes as a slow moving loom and leaves like a flash; as it dissipates it leaves behind dampness. If the fog is war then the dampness is the emotions; that is the residual affects of war. The emotions are things that stick to everyone "In war, there are no unwounded soldiers (Narosky)". …
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O'Brien Tim. The Things They Carried. Penguin, New York, 1990.
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