Everything Is Temporary, It’ll All Switch Up On You In The End War was like a preschooler and you were the Play-doh, war molded and molded you until in the end you lost some of yourself and gained a new experience. Former Vietnam veteran O’brien knew war was a bitch, and he tried conveying that by using a selection of detail so the reader may infer inherent importance of any details that he shares, undertone which implies a meaning that usually points towards the underlying theme of a work, metaphors to enhance his writing in “The Things They Carried.” The way he formatted his book consequently so the structure stood out and which made it not so eloquent. His tone was easy to detect because it was either to inform or persuade us to believe his anecdotes or analogies about the war.
The mind and imagination or a powerful tool, but it's not the best when you live in fear. “How crazy it was that people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead.” (pg 212) O’brien uses a selection of detail to concretize a feeling the soldiers had. In the dark nights the soldiers lost their sanity. An example would be Rat Kiley, who started visualizing himself dead and to get away from it all, he shot himself in the foot.
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It could be your first soccer ball, your dad's watch, a picture of your family. all that matters is the meaning behind it. “They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried. O’Brien uses . A metaphor to compare the weight of equipment to the emotional weight of war. The men carried their individual things but they also carried the past that continued to grow heavier as the days went on. biggest burden that the soldiers of the Vietnam War had to carry. Their memories of the war will live on until the day that they