1. The title of the novel is The Things They Carried.
2. The author of the novel is Tim O’Brien.
3. The time period and setting shifts consistently throughout the novel. At times, it takes place during the late 1960s in the Vietnam War and the U.S. homefront prior to the war. In other instances, the story takes place in the 1980s after the war on the U.S. homefront.
4. The genre of the The Things They Carried is fictional, coming of age, and a war story.
5. Tim O’Brien is the main protagonist in the novel.
Externally O’Brien must endure the treacherous conditions of the War with Vietnam soldiers trying to kill him everywhere. He as well must cope with the death of his friends and broken friendships. He is forced to enter the war due to …show more content…
The novel is told in various point of views. O’Brien consistently alters the narrator to essentially portray the different feelings and a sense of emotions. This connects to his central thematic ideal, which is that war can’t be generalized as there are any aspects to label it as bad. According to Brien, war is as well beautiful as he compares it to a love story. This is evident through Kiowa and Azar. O’Brien incorporates Kiowa to demonstrate the moral injustices in war, which was a popular belief. In addition, he utilizes Azar to represent the beauties and fun of war, which is a prominent ideal O’Brien is trying to convey. Azar is used to represent to neglected idea.
8. O’Brien’s incorporation of the ideal, truth versus fiction, is a distinct element in the novel. Throughout the The Things They Carried, O’Brien incorporates many key events in the novel, which he asserts are true, but they essentially end up being fictional. This is all due in part to a central theme, which states that a greater truth is told through fiction. O’Brien believes that the average true war stories don’t do justice to how soldiers felt during the war. Ultimately, he believes fiction accurately portrays the authentic emotions and feelings in ways in which true war stories fail to
2. The author of the novel is Tim O’Brien.
3. The time period and setting shifts consistently throughout the novel. At times, it takes place during the late 1960s in the Vietnam War and the U.S. homefront prior to the war. In other instances, the story takes place in the 1980s after the war on the U.S. homefront.
4. The genre of the The Things They Carried is fictional, coming of age, and a war story.
5. Tim O’Brien is the main protagonist in the novel.
Externally O’Brien must endure the treacherous conditions of the War with Vietnam soldiers trying to kill him everywhere. He as well must cope with the death of his friends and broken friendships. He is forced to enter the war due to …show more content…
The novel is told in various point of views. O’Brien consistently alters the narrator to essentially portray the different feelings and a sense of emotions. This connects to his central thematic ideal, which is that war can’t be generalized as there are any aspects to label it as bad. According to Brien, war is as well beautiful as he compares it to a love story. This is evident through Kiowa and Azar. O’Brien incorporates Kiowa to demonstrate the moral injustices in war, which was a popular belief. In addition, he utilizes Azar to represent the beauties and fun of war, which is a prominent ideal O’Brien is trying to convey. Azar is used to represent to neglected idea.
8. O’Brien’s incorporation of the ideal, truth versus fiction, is a distinct element in the novel. Throughout the The Things They Carried, O’Brien incorporates many key events in the novel, which he asserts are true, but they essentially end up being fictional. This is all due in part to a central theme, which states that a greater truth is told through fiction. O’Brien believes that the average true war stories don’t do justice to how soldiers felt during the war. Ultimately, he believes fiction accurately portrays the authentic emotions and feelings in ways in which true war stories fail to