i've read this book before and the first time i read it i didn't know it wasnt real untill after i read it. it made me shacked to think someone can make up such crazy stories that sound real! now that im reading it agian i wish i didn't know becasue when i thought it was all true i got more into it and it somehow seemed more real!

In "The Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong" Anne is brought to Vietnam to see all the horrible things war can do. SHe turns from a sheltered girly girl to a butchy brut. It just comes to show how an event such as a war can change not just a persons attire but thier views on life their morals and how they react to things aswell. BUT hey its christmas and ( Read more... )

Tim o'brien seems to be saying that when a person does something that he or she is ashamed of that they always are sort of looking back upon it. He basically says that courage builds from a sameful situation. (check page 39 and 40) It seems as if the soldiers are feeling sahmeful becasue they are in Vietnam becasue most americans at that time ( Read more... )

http://www.war-stories.com/- this site relates to The Things they carried because it has a ton of war stories just like the book. even though most of these stories are true acounts they both give the same basic idea ( Read more... )

Since I have already read this book and discussed it in lit club I know what goes on and a lot about the book. However, i love how the book lists the actual physical things the soldiers carried and the emotional thinngs aswell. When you think of what they carried you never think about the hatchet a soldier got from his father or pictures you think ( Read more... )

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