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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

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KEY CHARACTERS--(TIM O'BRIEN)

  • Author and soldier in vietnam
  • He had douts about going or not, since he didn't
  • want to try to keep running. So his thought was of
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Nate Nielsen
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KEY CHARACTERS--(TIM O'BRIEN)

  • going to war. He was a college
  • educated student.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Nate Nielsen
  • Tim O'Brien at the 2012 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States. . 2012 . Photograph. n.p. Print.
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O'BRIEN

  • "A month after graduating Mcalester college I was drafted to
  • Fight a war I hated ... What it said exactly, I don't recall now
  • Something huge. Taking off with call, Tim. I drove north"
  • (O'Brien 38)
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KEY CHARACTERS--(JIMMEY CROSS)

  • Lieutenant during Vietnam.
  • Close friend with Tim O'Brien.
  • During the war he carried a favorite photo.
  • It was a photo of the girl he loved Martha.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Nate Nielsen
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  • "He felt shame. He hated himself.
  • He loved Martha(O'Brien 87)".
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KEY CHARACTERS--(MARK FOSSIE)

  • Soldier during Vietnam part of O'Brien's Platoon.
  • In one part Fossie arranges a flight for his girlfriend
  • To arrive at camp and spend quality time with her.
  • This affected her greatly causing her to disapear
  • This showed how easy war changed people. (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Nate Nielsen
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  • "A cinch" Fossie said, and gazed down
  • at his pretty girlfriend ,"thing is you just
  • Got to wait it enough"(O'Brien 90).
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KEY CHARACTERS--(RAT KILEY)

  • Another soldier that was in the platoon of Cross.
  • He is important since he tells O'Brien stories.
  • Then O'Brien tells his stories in the book.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Nate Nielsen
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  • "Rat had a reputation for exageration
  • and overstatement a confusion to round
  • up the facts"(O'Brien 85)
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KEY CHARACTERS--(HENRY DOBBINS)

  • Big and heavier man in Cross's platoon.
  • He is the light machine gunner.
  • He tells O'Brien that church member in his
  • church had convinced him to be a pastor.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Nate Nielsen
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  • "I started to think how I'd like to
  • be a minister"(O'Brien 114)
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STORY MAP--(EXPOSITION)

  • Vietnam 1968
  • My Ngo
  • Patrolling in the forest.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")
  • Moises Zumaya
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  • "... he would get up and move
  • among his men, checking the
  • perimeter, then at full dark he
  • would return to his hole and
  • watch the night ..."(O'Brien 2)
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STORY MAP--(RISING ACTION)

  • Rising action can be when they are ambushing
  • And come upon a soldier O'Brien doesnt know
  • What to do so hurdles a grenade over to the soldier.
  • And kills him. Another event that allowed every one
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Moises Zumaya
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  • To reflect in the rising action was when
  • Martha arrives at camp. She is a dynamic
  • Character and turns into a killer after she leaves
  • The green berets.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Moises Zumaya
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  • "Tim this is a war. The guy wasn't Heidi - he
  • had a weapon, right? It's a tough thing, for sure,
  • but you got to cut out that staring."(O'Brien 120)
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STORY MAP--(CLIMAX)

  • We can consider the part when Cross
  • Is talking to Kiowas father. Hes is explaining
  • Everything that happened in the war and how he
  • Could have gotton a silver star for saving Kiowa but
  • Lost him. He regrets it! --(O'Brien "The Things They Carried")-Moises Zumaya
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  • "A stupid mistake. That's all it was, a
  • mistake, but it had killed Kiowa."
  • (O'Brien 161)
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STORY MAP--(DROPPING ACTION)

  • Its when O'Brien goes back to telling
  • his personal story. Also when he goes to
  • Vietnam with his daughter Kathleen and visits
  • The places where he once served his country.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Moises Zumaya
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  • "You know what i think?" She said.
  • "I think this place stinks like . . . God, I don't even
  • know what. It smells rotten."(O'Brien 174)
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STORY MAP--(CONCLUSION)

  • He has a flashback of himself in 1956 and his girlfriend.
  • He explains how they brought the dead in vietnam jut like he did to his 1956 girlgriend.
  • He dreamed them and wrote them down.
  • They start breaking apart as a platoon.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Moises Zumaya
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  • "I'm skimming accross my own history,
  • moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing
  • loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark
  • and come down thirty years later. "( O'Brien 233)
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THEME

  • One theme in"The things they carried". Is of guilt and blame
  • between the troops. All the characters in the book are haunted
  • by guilt and look for someone or something to blame. The
  • characters have a feeling of guilt for the deaths of the men in the platoon.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Ronald Alvarado
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THEME

  • Also for all the vietnamese that
  • were killed by them. This all causes them
  • to blame themselves, war, voters, and the
  • Viet Cong. This is important to life in general because
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Ronald Alvarado
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THEME

  • O'Brien emphasizes the idea of responsibility in war by
  • showing that we can blame a person or country for
  • The idea of war.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Ronald Alvarado
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  • "Lavender was dead. You couldn't
  • burn the blame"(O'Brien 22)
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KEY SYMBOLS--(THE DEAD YOUNG VIETNAMESE SOLDIER)

  • Although Tim O'Brien is unclear about
  • weather or not he actually threw a grenade and
  • killed a man outside My Khe, but the way he remembers
  • the Corps is very strong and recurring. This could be
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")khalifa Teya
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(KEY SYMBOLS)--THE DEAD YOUNG VIETNAMESE SOLDIER

  • symbolizing humanity's guilt over war's horrible
  • acts. Tim O'Brian tries to think would life did the guy
  • life wether it was good or bad.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")
  • khalifa Teya
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  • "He was slim dead, almost daintly
  • Young man of about twenty"(O'Brien 23).
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(KEY SYMBOLS)--KATHLEEN

  • Tim O'Brien's daughter Kathleen represents
  • a reader who has the capability of responding
  • to the author. He and his daughter both effect
  • each other in different ways. O'Brien uses his
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")khalifa Teya
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(KEY SYMBOLS)--KATHLEEN

  • stories of war, but he is afraid to tell his daughter
  • about the man he killed. O'Brien takes her to Vietnam
  • so she can better understand the Vietnam war and
  • what he went through.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")khalifa Teya
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  • "Daddy tell the truth," Kathleen can say,
  • " did you ever kill somebody?"(O'Brien 172)
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CONFLICT

  • PERSON VS. WAR
  • The war in Vietnam is the cause of the changes and
  • problems in the book. The killings was what had most
  • effect on troops. Some examples are Mary
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")nate nielsen
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CONFLICT

  • changed when she arrived to camp and turned
  • into a killer in a way that said how the war affected
  • them. The reason Jimmy thought about Martha
  • was because he was at war and not with her.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Nate Nielsen
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  • "At the girls throat was a necklace
  • of human tongues"(O'Brien 105)
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LITERARY DEVICES

  • IMAGERY- O'Brien just recall memories, he also
  • recalls what he had imagined. He would create
  • new events in his head. They were mainly about
  • Martha and the things he wanted to do with her.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")khalifa Teya
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  • "There forth, when he thought of
  • Martha....."(O'Brien 23)
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LITERARY DEVICES

  • DYNAMIC CHARACTER - A dynamic character in
  • the story is Jimmey Cross. By the end of the
  • story he has determined that he will forsake
  • his feelings about Martha and will concentrate
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")khalifa Teya
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LITERARY DEVICES

  • his attention on the company of his charge.
  • He will shift his focus. He burns Martha's
  • pictures and letters and he will dispose of
  • the people. All these things he did makes him
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")khalifa Teya
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  • "Jimmey Cross crouched
  • at the bottom of his foxhole
  • and burned Martha's letters"
  • (O'Brien 22)
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LITERARY TERMS

  • a dynamic character because he changed.
  • FLASHBACK- The whole story is mainly a flashback
  • of Jimmey Cross past during his years in combat and
  • also about his love life.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")khalifa Teya
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  • " But this too is true: stories can save us.
  • I'm forty three years old, and a writer now,
  • and even still, right here, I keep dreaming
  • Linda alive"(O'Brien 213)
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LITERARY TERMS

  • SYMBOLISM- Throughout the story, Tim O'Brien
  • mentions all the things that the soldiers carry
  • with them, both physical and emotional. However,
  • the Physical objects that symbolized some
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")khalifa Teya
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LITERARY TERMS

  • of their personalities and it could
  • symbolize something important.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")
  • khalifa Teya
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  • "Lieutenant Cross carried his good
  • luck pebble."(O'Brien 12)
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CONCLUSION

  • This book doesn't really follow the classical narrative
  • structure throughout the book, O'Brien is trying to bring
  • Flashbacks from his buddies and him and other different topics.
  • The author says that true war stories don't make sense in the way a
  • Classic narrative does.--(O'Brien "The Things They Carried")-Ronald Alvarado
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CONCLUSION

  • This book should be a College Bound, since
  • the narrator switches back and forth, making
  • you wonder what's real and what isn't which makes
  • It a bit hard to follow.
  • (O'Brien "The Things They Carried")Ronald Alvarado
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  • "A true war story is never
  • moral"(O'Brien)
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WORKS CITED

  • O'Brien. (1990). New York: Houghton Miffllin Harcourt Publishing Company.
  • English: Tim O'Brien at the 2012 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States. . 2012 . Photograph. n.p. Print.
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  • Fossie, Mark. @Mfossie. Twitter. Web. 23 Sept. 2013. .
  • Kiley, Rat. Rat Kiley. Twitter. Web. 23 Sept. 2013.
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  • The things they carried. Web. 23 Sept. 2013
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  • Airborne Ranger tells his Korean and Vietnam Story. 2010. Web. 23 Sept. 2013.
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  • War is all Hell. 2013. Web. 23 Sept. 2013.
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  • Wong, Alex. 3 missing soldiers in Vietnam. 2012. Web. 23 Sept. 2013.

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