In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien suggests that the war itself changes a person, the changes could be negative or positive. The negative effect is the war is like a disease that takes over your body and reorganizes everything inside you making the outer layers of you to be unrecognizable to people. For instance, when Tim talks about Lemon fear of the dentist and how he got over the fear: "...something about dentists that just gave him the creeps ....Lemon kept insisting, so the man finally ...yanked out a perfectly good tooth" (O’Brien 83-84). Lemon obviously have this strong fear of dentists he had this fear for so long, but it takes fainting and the embarrassment of the war for him to get over it. Similar, when Tim tells us the
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Especially, when Tim describes how emotional Rat gets about the death of his best friend Curt Lemon's death by saying, "He gets all teary....He says he loved the guy. He says the guy his best friend in the world. They were soul mates..."(O’Brien 64-65). Tim shows that another soldier is so emotional of the death of a soldier that he met in the war and their strong relationship between the soldier name Rat, and the other soldier caused Rat to forget that war is a place where people die every day, and I feel that Rat’s situation is saying appreciating friendship, relationship or anything that’s worthy. When you don’t know when the special thing or person will be out of sight, that’s while the war gives mans the right to act on their emotions because in the war you're never safe unlike the outside of the war. Not to mention, when Tim talks about the measure some of the soldier goes through for privacy: "For privacy, the men had rigged up curtained walls around their coots, small makeshift bedroom...."(O’Brien 96). The war is a place where everything is out in the open it makes soldiers who have been there for so long have the strong desire for the need of privacy because the war makes men value their privacy unlike other men now who allowed everything to be out in the open. In other words, when Tim describes Mary Anne face after the harshness
Especially, when Tim describes how emotional Rat gets about the death of his best friend Curt Lemon's death by saying, "He gets all teary....He says he loved the guy. He says the guy his best friend in the world. They were soul mates..."(O’Brien 64-65). Tim shows that another soldier is so emotional of the death of a soldier that he met in the war and their strong relationship between the soldier name Rat, and the other soldier caused Rat to forget that war is a place where people die every day, and I feel that Rat’s situation is saying appreciating friendship, relationship or anything that’s worthy. When you don’t know when the special thing or person will be out of sight, that’s while the war gives mans the right to act on their emotions because in the war you're never safe unlike the outside of the war. Not to mention, when Tim talks about the measure some of the soldier goes through for privacy: "For privacy, the men had rigged up curtained walls around their coots, small makeshift bedroom...."(O’Brien 96). The war is a place where everything is out in the open it makes soldiers who have been there for so long have the strong desire for the need of privacy because the war makes men value their privacy unlike other men now who allowed everything to be out in the open. In other words, when Tim describes Mary Anne face after the harshness