Character Comparison in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"

The central theme of this story is an ancient confrontation between life and death. A more personal relationship with lieutenant Jimmy Cross, he is a round shape and hero of "what they carry", this is love, conflict of war with his enemies. Author Tim O'Brien writes an article about the conflict in Vietnam. This short story tells us the inner confrontation of some soldiers and how they choose to deal with the reality of Vietnam's confrontation.

Run the foot: what Tim O'Brien brings 1 what Tim O'BrienENG brings 1300 W5A 2 Andrea CarrSouth University Online Tim O'Brien brings a few things "bringing on" Tim O'Brien Vrien is a Vietnamese I drew a young American soldier in the war spectacularly. Each short story is based on the last story, but in "what they carry", the authors will focus on how they arrived in Vietnam. When interviewing Tim O'Brien, Don Lee learned that "he went to Vietnam and hated it every minute from beginning to end" (Li 2). Compared to the burden of emotional war, things are weightless. The soldiers were forced to assume their own weight and fear of war. "He feels very sad, what men bring": "Men are very sad because men can not give up their feelings.

In what TIM O'BRIEN (1990) they have, in their collection of items (1990), TIM O'BRIEN's short story collection, the reader said that Tim O'Brien will not write this book You need to remember like Tim O'Brien. Given that O'Brien and the real O'Brien share many of the same characteristics and experiences, this can be a particularly challenging task. It is not all, but this is the point. In the story of "Field Trip", O'Brien condemned him that a savvy nine-year-old daughter was caught in the past: "Do you know something? Sometimes you are very Strange ... you will never forget it before time ("183). Catherine is right. Whether it is O'Brien or the real O'Brien, they will not stop writing ideas and articles about the Vietnam War. O'Brien did not express his view on political stage or war as reporter, but chose to write a war story.

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Almost all the dramatic furniture 'carry objects' - characters, landscapes, events - are incorporated into the Vietnam War. But this book is not Vietnam, not a war, said Tim O'Brien in a telephone interview at home in Boxford, Massachusetts. There are few Vietnamese people in the book. In any case, there is no name, reflecting the ignorance of the soldiers, the 43 - year - old writer said. Mr. O'Brien spent his year in Vietnam, but a character named Tim O'Brien said, "I am a child of a 21-year-old war, I do not know culture or language, I killed him in the role of Tim Imagine the life of a person.