Relationship between Fiction and Reality Explored in The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien's "what they do" focuses on the relationship between novels and narrator. In this novel, O'Brien himself is the hero, he is an experienced veteran, communicates his experience during the warfare and is a writer studying the mechanism behind the writing story. These two aspects of the novel are parallel not only to literature review, but to warfare, to produce true art of novel comments: means to talk, the ultimate fiction of the relationship itself and the purpose behind the reality . .

Tim O'Brien reveals and destroys intimacy and separation, a dual confrontation between illusions and reality through Jimmy Cross and Masa's semi-relationship. Behind the hesitancy work ideology that promotes or does not promote intertwining by the interaction between two characters or absence of promotion or easy understanding of the work before and after work

Metafafiction (metafiction) focuses on states as artifacts consciously and systematically in order to ask questions about the relationship between fiction and reality. At the time of their construction method of criticism, these descriptions will explore the world beyond possible fictional literary fiction text as well as to investigate the basic structure of fictional fiction. This definition may seem complicated, but careful study is not difficult. First, Callaway simply believes that the story of metaphorical fiction is the theme of the creation of novels. In other words, these are stories about the creation of stories. Obviously, "How to convey the truth of war" is a fictional story. O'Brien tells the rat that he is writing something like this in his sister's cart. "A real war story is not a moral story nor a story soon.

The relationship between fiction and truth is questioned in what they carry, but it may be reasonable for readers to doubt at least the authenticity of "rainy river" and "field trip" and other stories But, some of O'Brien's former readers do not like this background. They found these stories in a magazine, so they prompt. "Rain River" is displayed in two magazines. Maclester Today, O'Brien and the university alumni magazine Playboy, she spent $ 5,000, which is O'Brien 's largest magazine' s examination of the career. McAlester Today has advertised autobiographical reality with his own subtitles. "The writer reminds me of the summer of 1968 when I was in desperate circumstances.