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Mar 26, 2020
Thought-provoking and an intense read. A must-read, in my opinion, one that will leave an impact. The novel, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien allows the reader to identify how the soldiers evolved physically, emotionally, and in their lives to come. The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that O’Brien uses to tell his experiences and feelings about the war. The book is filled with stories about the men of Alpha Company and their lives in Vietnam and after. O’Brien talks about the impact the land and the other soldiers had on himself, and the importance of his experience during the war. In The Things They Carried, O’Brien identifies the psychological and physical coping mechanisms that the soldiers created between one another to persevere through the war, and how the experiences affected themselves later in life.