Ted Lavender Chapter Summary

The theme of this book was riddled with fealings of guilt and shame.this book takes place in the 60s.the narrorator was drafted during the vietnam war and during the war the narrarator exsperonces bad things like his conrads die and while he is in the war he kills people and witness people die. And during the war o’brien has flash backs about his life before the war and also during the war the soldiers that fought in the vietnam war they had to endure many incredibly horrifying experiences.it was these events that led to great human emotions.it was thoes fealings that were in the things they carried.Everything they carried affected them on weather it was emotional physical and mental.the things they carried breaks down the characters one way …show more content…
The soldiers are unable to predict when their death might come and how to defend against it.and the fact that they can die at anytime drives some of the soldiers mad such as rat kiley.from the brushes with death(o’brien being shot twice and nearly diying the scecond time).in the book the things they carried the soldiers felt obligated to go to war for fear and embarrassment is their guilt of not being brave and not tough enough o’brien reflects on this on how he thought he had a secret reserve of braiveary and heroism stored away,waiting for the right moment when he would be called into war. The fealings of shame and guilt follows the sldiers into war as well as well to make them do irratonal and crazy things. Curt lemons faints when an army dentist treats him much to his own shame.to proove he is man enough and too brave to see the dentist.o’brien’s friend norman bowker cant shake the shame of not winning the silver star of valor because