When reading a book such as ”The Things They Carried” by author Tim O'Brien, it would be difficult for the reader not feel many different emotions throughout the reading. When O'Brien brings out emotions in his reader, he is making his writing more personally relatable for his audience. A few emotions he brings out of his reader in “The Things They Carried” are sympathy, anger, and realization. O'Briens entire book is full of stories that show the hardships of war and its effects on veterans before and after the war. A person reading one of O'Brien's war stories would feel sympathetic toward the characters. One story that evokes this emotion in the reader would be “On the Rainy River.” This was a story about one of the young men who was drafted but was terrified and did not want to go (44). Anyone who goes
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After he tells the story of Linda, the young girl with cancer who died, O’Brien tells the reader that stores are how he keeps the dead alive (226). This makes the reader realize the point of all the war stories and why he feels the need to tell others about his experiences as well as other people's experiences in the war. He said he kept Linda alive in dreams and stories about her. Since creating stories about her when he was younger kept her alive for him, it shows the reader why he tells the war stories he does now. He tells the stories to keep all the people he knew then alive in his memory as well as the memory of others. Throughout the stories that O’Brien tells in “They Things They Carried,” the reader would feel many different emotions. Feeling these many emotions makes the reading easier to understand and read for the reader. While taking his reader on a journey of sadness, pain, anger, and realization, O’Brien makes his reading relatable, emotional, and interesting to his
After he tells the story of Linda, the young girl with cancer who died, O’Brien tells the reader that stores are how he keeps the dead alive (226). This makes the reader realize the point of all the war stories and why he feels the need to tell others about his experiences as well as other people's experiences in the war. He said he kept Linda alive in dreams and stories about her. Since creating stories about her when he was younger kept her alive for him, it shows the reader why he tells the war stories he does now. He tells the stories to keep all the people he knew then alive in his memory as well as the memory of others. Throughout the stories that O’Brien tells in “They Things They Carried,” the reader would feel many different emotions. Feeling these many emotions makes the reading easier to understand and read for the reader. While taking his reader on a journey of sadness, pain, anger, and realization, O’Brien makes his reading relatable, emotional, and interesting to his