Throughout the novel, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, verisimilitude is superior to reality in exhibiting O’Brien’s universal truths of destructiveness of isolation and social obligation to the war.
The first universal truth of O’Brien’s novel that is best demonstrated through verisimilitude is the destructiveness of isolation. In O’Brien’s novel, this theme is commonly shown within the soldiers’ grim encounters with the forest. Particularly, when the soldiers were listening to the forest, they started to hear bizarre noises and sounds in which they responded: “You don’t know spooky till you been there” (O'Brien, 69). These kinds of encounters that soldiers had were so unreal that they hardly talked about it ever again and were commonly
The first universal truth of O’Brien’s novel that is best demonstrated through verisimilitude is the destructiveness of isolation. In O’Brien’s novel, this theme is commonly shown within the soldiers’ grim encounters with the forest. Particularly, when the soldiers were listening to the forest, they started to hear bizarre noises and sounds in which they responded: “You don’t know spooky till you been there” (O'Brien, 69). These kinds of encounters that soldiers had were so unreal that they hardly talked about it ever again and were commonly