The Things They Carried

Title: The Things They Carried
Category: Literature / English | Words: 1243 | Pages: 5.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

The Things They Carried

“Look, if you think about it, it’s not crazy…Bring in a girl…No war here.” (93) And that is exactly what the soldiers did in Tim O’Brien’s book, “The Things They Carried”, they brought the ‘gentler sex’ into their violent world. Women are introduced into the lives of a few soldiers who struggled emotionally because of the ties they had with these women. In the same sense females are utilized in this …showed first 75 words of 1243 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1243 total…was in a state of depression, because of Kathleen, O’Brien could not fully describe to her what happened in the war, and because of Linda, O’Brien realized that love is only a state of mind. Through the women described in the novel, we can come to one conclusion: war is not just about the physical events that occur during its stay, but also what goes on psychologically in the minds of the soldiers.

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