War In Tim Obrien's The Things They Carried

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The Hurt Locker tells the intense day of a specialist bomb disposal unit during the Iraq war led by Sergeant Thompson. It follows the daily work in Baghdad of three U.S. Marines, who make up a bomb disposal unit, as they specialist. These soldiers are in charge with carrying out one of the most dangerous jobs in the world that is defusing enemy bombs planted in war zones. When he dies during a mission, Sergeant James an unpredictable and reckless soldier takes his place and commands the unit. The reckless behavior this will make his two subordinates, Sanborn and Sergeant Specialist Eldridge, seriously analyze their risk in their work and to question whether it is really worth continuing. I believe this is the best film to date on the war in Iraq. The numerous missions serve to dive deeper into their personalities: touch …show more content…
The meaning of the title has to be that American soldiers have lockers or lockers for all. In this case, it would be a locker for pain, the same work specialist anti explosives. The protagonist has a box where he keeps explosives pieces to remember how close these artifacts were to end his life and this reminds me of Tim Obrien’s The Things They Carried. In Tim Obrien’s book, the soldiers would carry things with them that would give them a sense of things that could remind them of what they left behind back in the states. These things that they carried are not just for memory of what they left behind but as they go through these life-changing situations these things they carry in sense help them stay humane. This movie also relates to Phil Klay’s Redeployment, as they both portray a sense of humor in their soldiers. War is obviously not a laughing matter but soldiers use humor in a sense of kind of sugar coating the reality to not make it seem as bad as it really is. If they are just serious all the time and only have the war mentality then they will go insane. They still need to try and keep a sense of

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