Distortion of Truth in Tim O’Brien's The Things They Carried

Some authors choose to write stories and novels to evoke certain readers' emotions rather than simply writing for visual expression. To do this, they occasionally stretch the truth and "distort" the actual events. Tim O'Brien's "What they are carrying" is a summary of short stories about the Vietnam War, and distortion is an important factor for each of them. In some stories in the novel, in the section on "How to tell the story of real warfare" O'Brien warns the reader that a veteran may be lying and exaggerating when telling a story about war started.

"What they carry" Tim O'Brien recalls his memory of his youth while recalling his memories of his young at the battle of "what they carry" which is the symbol of his attempt. Resist the experience of closing from the past. The story of O'Brien reflects the difficult choices people have to make in their bodies and in fighting the war on the ground where they are located. In the criticism of Steven Kaplan, "Tim O'Brien is the immortal uncertainty of what they have," he says that there are all soldiers on the road to conquer over the armies through the army Certainty and inevitability to explore the facts In the context of O'Brien ... Show more

Interpretation of what they bring In some understanding of war, people can begin to understand Tim O'Brien 's what they carry. However, when work is regarded as a strict historical background, another layer of meaning appears on the surface. Tim O'Brien is a veteran, so there are a lot of things that he thinks not to tell us that he believes it is natural (or what we are thinking). The reason why the United States participated in the Vietnam War was not domestic spirit but domestic domestic affairs ... and it was very prosperous. In the 1990s, the media was full of media to promote economic and international relations. This type of media coverage caused many Americans to feel they were invincible. The media has never really covered the Middle East, things are trying to boil, and the hatred to the United States is to gather attention in golden time. On the morning of 11th September 2001, America roughly awaked the hatred of our "invincible" country. This awakening comes.