The things they carried is novel consists of the small stories about the memories and imaginations from the Vietnam War. The Narrator Tim O’Brien also the protagonist shares his experience in this novel through small stories and a unique story telling technique. In the beginning of story, O’Brien, the graduate student from Harvard gets drafted to go to the war. Even though he had a chance to flee the country, he was worried that he and his family would lose their social reputation due to his actions so he ends up going to the war. Throughout the novel narrator talks about his company’s soldiers and shares their story with us. The main theme of the book is to show story truth is truer than happening truth. O’Brien wants his readers to know that when we hear a story based on feelings rather than facts, it usually has a great impact on our spiritual life.

Journal 1
“I was no soldier. I …show more content…
He writes about the different war stories in this chapter and talks about how war stories should make you feel. He also says that if war stories make you feel uplifted then you have just been told lie. O'Brien writes couple of war stories and how they made him feel. One of them was about a guy name Curt Lemon who died while tossing a smoke grenade with his friend, Rat Kyle and accidently steps on a land mine. After a week, Kyle writes a letter to lemon's sister in which talks about how great her brother was and how he much he loved him and how he made the war seem almost fun. After two months, Kyle gets no reply from his sister and he calls her "dumb cooze." This story almost seems unbelievable because it makes us think that how somebody’s sister can could not write back to such a personal and touching letter. Along that example O'Brien gives us couple more examples of other stories to show his readers that how evil and unbelievable war stories can