The Things They Carried Shmoop

Tim the soldier tim the writer and timmy. If it s in the mountains they carry things like machetes.

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The things they carried shmoop. The things they carried is a set of connected short pieces that tell the stories of the men of the alpha company foot soldiers in vietnam before during and after the vietnam war. If they re going to a heavily mined area they carry a 28 pound mine detector. Everybody and we mean everybody knows a guy like rat.

They re all the same person but it s important for you to keep the three separate so we ll do the same. In the things they carried the vietnam war is a thing of horror that has made american decency twisted and dirty a mockery of what it once was. There are three important tim o briens in the story.

The things they carry depend on several factors including the men s priorities and their constitutions. Henry dobbins carries his girlfriend s stockings around his neck. Tim the soldier tim the writer and timmy the kid.

A list of all the characters in the things they carried the the things they carried characters include. On night missions they all carry their own necessities. It s not that there isn t a lot of blood and gore in the things they carried but mostly the war is presented as it is in this quote as a lot of downtime and marching during which you could unexpectedly die.

There are three important tim o briens in the story. What the men carry depends on their mission. And these stories deal with with the surreal and ambiguous nature of this war the inadequacy of plain facts in communicating certain essential truths and the alienation of the vietnam war vet.

Hollywood often presents war as a stallone fest complete with uzis ripping through the air and lots of screaming and blood and gore. By refusing to generalize about war o brien enriches civilians understanding of it pushing us to think beyond such trite sayings as war is hell. They are things in the most physical sense mosquito repellent and marijuana pocket knives and chewing gum.

Tim o brien jimmy cross mitchell sanders kiowa norman bowker henry dobbins bob rat kiley curt lemon ted lavender lee strunk dave jensen azar bobby jorgenson elroy berdahl kathleen mary anne bell mark fossie linda. The things they carried is a collection of short stories by tim o brien that was first published in 1990.

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