The Things They Carried
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.Amazon.com Review
“They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, like, longing–these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and point gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice…. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.”
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried inscription a devious but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O’Brien’s earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, nearly hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of fleeting tales but rather an cunning combination of all three. Vietnam is still O’Brien’s theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the heap different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these tales is “Tim”; yet O’Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as “Tim” does in “The Man I Killed,” and unlike Tim in “Ambush,” he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn’t make it any less right. In “On the Rainy River,” the character Tim O’Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an ancient man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O’Brien never drove north, never establish himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a choice to make. The real Tim O’Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of “On the Rainy River” lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn’t judge in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every tale in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O’Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. –Alix Wilber
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he contidicted to many points as well as telling storys that in the end the reader couldn’t tell if it was right or not.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
….Psych!..just kidding. I was told by a Norwegian college student years ago that this was his favorite book. It rumor has it that has universal appeal. I haven’t read it yet, and I’m buying it now, but many have told me this is an essential read. I bet I’ll give it five stars.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If you do not read much this is a book you do not want to pick up. “The Things They Carried” will bore you with its slow storyline and its repetitiveness. Above all this book tricks one into believing this is a past account of the life aof Tim O’ Brien as a Veitnam soldier. Tim O’Brien writes about Veitnam even though he did not serve there, building this book fictional. What fake representation! I would therefore not recommend this book to anyone.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
To the point, I was momentously disappointed by this book. While I defend O’Brien’s right to his use of language, etc. – this is directed ot all you teachers reading this review – I seriously question the merit of it as required reading for ANY grade level due to it’s serious deficit of moral quality and common literary decency. And, yes, I realize that with a war tale, that’s how it will be, but requiring a person to expose their mind to such appalling works of literature (at least in it’s decency) is socially criminal, at best. Putting my serious disagreements and disappointments aside though, I reflect that the book was well-written, considering. If it had only exposed the themes it ment to expose in a more suitable way, I may have liked it much more.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The things they carried was an appealing book creepy to say the least as I read further and further into the book the more creepy and disturbing the book got. It ongoing out with Tim as a kid and he had just got his draft letter and he did not want to go to war. So he said he was going to go to Canada to get away from the draft. On his way up he stopped at an ancient motel right before the border. He chose to stop here a talk to the guy on the front porch. They talked all night and the next day the guy took him fishing the guy took him across the border on a boat where Tim ongoing to have hallucinations about just jumping out the boat and on to the border and escaping the draft but he decides that he will go to war and be a man. Then the scene sets in Vietnam and they are traveling through the jungle going from post to post while American troops are being blown up on land mines and booby traps. Tim talks about the war and his friends dieing and he goes from present to past back in into the world talking about his friend hung himself because he was dead in mind after the war. Later in the tale he takes his daughter to Vietnam with him so he can go back to the ancient days and see all of it again. The tale ends with Tim building up tales about all of his dead friends and family tree to make him feel better. All around this tale was well written but I did not like it I thought it was deeply disturbing and incorrect I would recommended this to people who like war books about Vietnam but I fervently disliked this tale.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5