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The Things They Carried

            
            
             The Things They Carried was full of war stories, each one telling a telling a different kind of truth. The author Tim O"Brien refers to two different kinds of truth. The first he calls the story-truth. He says "I want you to know why the story-truth is truer sometimes than the happening-truth." (Pg.179) Telling the happening-truth sometimes doesn't get the point across. The story-truth puts different images into you head that are made up to make you feel exactly what that person was going through. Telling the happening-truth is just going through the motions and most of the time just telling the actual story doesn't make you understand what that person was feeling at that moment. The story-truth will make up details that never happened to make you appreciate the situation they were in. .
             The story about Mary Anne Bell was a perfect story-truth example. The author tells the story of a woman going to Vietnam to be their with her boyfriend and she winds up turning into a killer working with the special operations group called the green berets. What was so hard to believe about this story was that it was a woman. Had it been a man the story would have been totally believable and no questions would have been asked. However the author uses a woman as he tells the story-truth which makes you get a better sense of what Vietnam actually did to people while they fought there. It took a sweet young girl fresh out of high school and turned her into a killing machine. Vietnam did this to her as .
             well as thousands of other young men her age. The atmosphere brainwashed her just like it did the other kids fighting in the war. .
             The author portray's Mary Anne Bell as a sweet innocent young woman when she arrives. By the end of the story Mary Anne had transformed into something totally different. "It took a few seconds, Rat said, to appreciate the full change. It part it was her eyes: utterly flat and indifferent.


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1. Things They Carried

The Reason for O"Brien's Title In Tim O"Brien's story, "The Things They Carried," he describes the important things men carried in war and why. ... The things they carried out of necessity might seem minor to a civilian. ... Another reason for the things they carry came from the individual jobs the soldiers had. ... Some of the things they carried depended on certain situations. ... Work Cited Tim O"Brien, "The Things They Carried," in Literature and the Writing Process. ...

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2. Analysis of The Things They Carried

In the short story, "The Things They Carried," Tim O"Brien writes about the soldiers of Vietnam and the self versus war or nature that all of them had to carry with them. In this story, O"Brien writes about the intangible things that the soldiers carry with them such as memories and fears and also the actual material things that they carried. ... The things that they carried defined what kind of person that they were as well as their status or position in the army. These material things that they carried showed the reality of the war. ... The things men carried inside." ...

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3. The Things They Carried

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This is a story not so much about the things the men of Alpha Company carried, but rather the burdens that they could not put down. ... "The things they carried were largely determined by necessity", but each man's necessities were different. ... With the death of Ted Lavender, O"Brien begins to develop the core of this story: How the men of Alpha Company dealt with the things they carried inside. ... The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do." ...

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This is a story not so much about the things the men of Alpha Company carried, but rather the burdens that they could not put down. ... "The things they carried were largely determined by necessity", but each man's necessities were different. ... With the death of Ted Lavender, O"Brien begins to develop the core of this story: How the men of Alpha Company dealt with the things they carried inside. ... The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do." ...

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6. The Things They Carried

In Tim O"brien's short story, "The Things They Carried," he describes a certain platoon humping through the jungle of Vietnam. ... The things each soldier would carry were both tangible and intangible items. ... They all carried the basic essentials for survival of war and the things that would make living possible by carrying the bare minimum of what they absolutely had to have. ... The whole atmosphere they carried gravity." ... The soldiers in "The Things They Carried" carried many things with them on their humping missions. ...

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7. The Things They Carried Is A Story

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8. The Things They Carried

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9. The Things They Carried

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10. The Things They Carried

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