“He took his boots off and socks, laid out his medical kit, doped himself up, and put round through his foot, nobody blamed him, sanders said” What we learned about Rat was wounded in the “Ghost soldiers” we assumed that it happened during battle. We never really saw Rat Kiley less than brave, that’s why it hurts the audience when he loses it. During “Night Life” he was scared because Vietnam or any war is scary at night, and the wilderness feels like it is alive. Tim O’brien shows shame and guilt, and mortality and death throughout his novel, “The Things They Carried.” Mortality and death; and shame and guilt interact and build on one another throughout the story. O’brien makes sure that one chapter or even two are one theme or both themes, he then makes a “tragedy” happen in order for the story to build off of the themes and so the story progresses. The reader felt that the novel was very real because O’brien puts his personal experience into the war, and told the story like it was his
“He took his boots off and socks, laid out his medical kit, doped himself up, and put round through his foot, nobody blamed him, sanders said” What we learned about Rat was wounded in the “Ghost soldiers” we assumed that it happened during battle. We never really saw Rat Kiley less than brave, that’s why it hurts the audience when he loses it. During “Night Life” he was scared because Vietnam or any war is scary at night, and the wilderness feels like it is alive. Tim O’brien shows shame and guilt, and mortality and death throughout his novel, “The Things They Carried.” Mortality and death; and shame and guilt interact and build on one another throughout the story. O’brien makes sure that one chapter or even two are one theme or both themes, he then makes a “tragedy” happen in order for the story to build off of the themes and so the story progresses. The reader felt that the novel was very real because O’brien puts his personal experience into the war, and told the story like it was his