We all carry things around with us on our day to day lives. It could be a backpack or car keys, and sometimes emotional baggage from the past. I can personally attest to carrying around my cell, key chain and even a picture of my family in my wallet. The pressure of succeeding in my career, is also a weight I carry with me. The narrator of The Things They Carried, expressed some of the things he carried during the time of the war. Not only did he carry his military equipment, he carried personal grief.
In the book some of the men carry with them personal things that has meaning to them. Likewise, I a bronze bullet key chain that I hung on my car key. I purchase my key chain to remember all the times my company and I reenacted battle missions. The strength and unity of my company it what the key chain symbolize to me. In the book the narrator, Tim O’Brien, explains how him and the other soldiers carried things that …show more content…
Knowing that a high level of education is needed to achieve my career goal, can be freighting. I have high expectations for myself and it has become an emotional load that I carry from day to day. Tim O’Brien, the narrator, carried all the memories of the war. He and the other soldiers had seen a lot and dealt through so much. “They carries all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing- these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carry shameful memories,” (20). At one point in his life, the narrator felt as if war was unnecessary and wrong. He believed that blood being shed for no reason was morally wrong (O’Brien 38). For years he carried the guilt of was because I knew he didn’t not stand for it. Both the narrator and I carry an emotional burden that plays in our mind, whenever something triggers that memory. The only difference, I didn’t go through or see the horror he