Fiction In Tim O Brien's The Things They Carried

The school board has proposed that works of fiction should be removed from the curriculum of all English classes, that is a not a good choice because making a curriculum is very difficult and lengthy. The students would have to learn how to find themes and lessons in literature without actually putting it into use in the classroom. The board would then have to invest into new textbooks as the ones we have now have works of fiction in them and getting new books is costly.The piece of literature that I will be referring to in this writing the most is a book ‘’The Things They Carried’’ by Tim o’Brien. It is a fictional book that takes place in the Vietnam war and the narrator, which happens to be the author is part of a squad in the United states army called Alpha company. …show more content…
He couldn’t get himself to escape because he didn’t want to shamed and looked down upon by his town because he didn’t want to go to fight. He didn’t want to face the embarrassment. This writing shows how the soldiers were affected during and even after the war mentally. The abolishment of works of fiction in the school curriculum by the school board is not a good thing to get rid of because it is fiction that can be a more effective way to teach students how to properly look for and find themes and lessons in literature. You can get a student to have more interest from reading a work of fiction like a book rather than making them sit through a lecture. With these books in the curriculum, students can put what they learned about finding themes in literature into play and then find those themselves. The school board should not get rid of works of fiction because I was recently reading a fictional book about the Vietnam war. This issue is relevant to the world because it shows that whether it be at war or at home you could lose the people in your life that you love and have a strong bond