The Things They Carried

“The Things They Carried”

Pages 67- 136

Tim O’Brien writes about these stories that happened while he was in Vietnam, he must have been writing these stories down for years then one day put them all together and related the characters and linked the stories and made a book out of it. There is no real direction in this story, it’s not like they are a platoon going to a certain mission and these are some funny stories that happened along the way. This book is about many different stories that happened over a long period of time in a platoon that was just on patrol for the most par.

O’Brien communicates how he was feeling during the way by the way that he tells these stories. I think now O’Brien sees his friend Kiowa as more of a leader than he did back then. Kiowa is a guy that is there for everybody, he is a Christian Indian, fighting in a war that he has no business in either. After the chapter “The Man I Killed” Tim O’Brien is sitting there staring at the body of the man he