The Emotional and Psychological Burdens in 'The Things They Carried'

Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger once said "a beloved best ipse belli" meaning "fear of war is worse than war itself". With this in mind, Seneca believes that war has physical and mental fees for its participants. Scars from psychological and emotional wars bring far more damage to soldiers than actual physical fighting. Tim O'Brien repeated this idea a couple of years later on his novel "The Things They Carry" and explains how the emotional burden exceeds the physical burden that must be borne by the war doing.

O'Brien has been a burden by what has been included in the "what they had", and, O'Brien physical soldier suffered, psychological, and the Vietnam War, which was closely related to the emotional burden I mentioned. The overall presentation of this story contains many different perspectives that are handled, handled and enforced by soldiers. In addition, O'Brien showed us why and how soldiers gathered these things separately for these things.

Among the things they have, Tim O'Brien discusses the burden of physical and emotional war. "Something" a soldier has is both a sentence and a metaphor. They even remembered the wounds of the body due to home, food, weapons, survival equipment, and even sentimental items. But they also have sorrow, longing, and fear. O'Brien is focusing on the most common ones of these feelings of guilt. O'Brien is the narrator and hero of the text and he discussed his experience in the Vietnam War. O'Brien used his storytelling as a comfort to deal with his painful past and mourning, "Tim tried to save Timmy 's life with a story" (246). He remembered his soldiers by changing his memory to a story. In addition, by speaking these stories, Tim overcomes some of his sins. Tim was a pacifist and when he was elected first he tried to persuade him to leave himself based on the opposition to the college war.

One of the most overlooked aspects of soldier life is the weight of items they carry. In the story of Tim O'Brien, "what they have" details in O'Brien how much of the plight of the soldiers of Vietnam and the burden imposed on them are detailed. Literally, heavy things reduced the burden on each soldier - but the physical load imposed by each soldier symbolizes the psychological burden of the soldier during the war. O'Brien lists what each soldier has, but the focus is on his role in lieutenant Jimmy Cross and war. There are multiple burdens on Lt.Cross, but his emotional problems are ... Read more