... done. Jimmy Cross" change in character is just the beginning of The Things They Carried. As the book continues to document what happened to the men O"Brien fought alongside, the reader continues to notice the peculiar way men change when faced with extremes. O"Brien's The Things They Carried probes deeply into the human conscience and presents it in such a way that it stirs the reader. In one chapter O"Brien remembers a man he killed. The only man he killed in Vietnam. The book goes on ... him into something completely different than what he was before the war. Critical Analysis: The Th...

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... author. That's how O"Brien wrote his story and one of our class assignments, "The Things They Carried". O"Brien wrote about the life of a group of soldiers over in the Vietnam War and the lifestyle that is led while fighting the war. This story showed that not only did the soldiers have to carry out the equipment, weapons and other goods of necessity to live while being there, but ... countries and defending our freedom. The soldiers in the story didn't just watch out for themselves, but also watched the back and activities that their fellow comrades would feel as well. O"Brien does such...

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• Grade Level: High School