We all go through changes in life, but the depth of our change varies by the severity of our situations. In the “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” in The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the author shows us a metamorphosis or a change within an average American girl “... perky and fresh faced, like a cheerleader” and changes her into someone lost who “seemed to disappear inside herself ”
When introducing the story of the sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong that Rat Kiley tells, O’Brien prompts that Rat tells stories that seem “improbable, some well beyond that, but the stories that will last forever are those that swirl back and forth across the border between trivia and bedlam, the mad and the mundane.” signifying that the story Rat tells in
When introducing the story of the sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong that Rat Kiley tells, O’Brien prompts that Rat tells stories that seem “improbable, some well beyond that, but the stories that will last forever are those that swirl back and forth across the border between trivia and bedlam, the mad and the mundane.” signifying that the story Rat tells in