The dictionary definition of the war is that two or more countries start fights by using force. Since human appeared on Earth, we never stopped to fight or to kill each other and other species. From primitive times to the Western Civilization, many countries or groups started wars to conquer and extend lands or slavery for making their groups more powerful and comfortable. The war became the only method to rationalize their invasion and victories. However, the definition of the war has changed slowly from 1800s to today. The war does not only involve physical fights between cross-borders, it also includes political and specific groups causing a civil war, a religious war, and a cyber war. Therefore, these changes make people having more excuses …show more content…
The author will be required to have an imagination for securing the concrete by associating the inner unity of the historical consciousness. Tim O’Brien’s story, The Things They Carried is unique and challenging, so it stimulates readers about the curiosity of the story. Even though the story is dealing with the fiction story about the Vietnam War, O’Brien named the main character of the story as “Tim O’Brien” which was the same name with him and used the third person narrator method to bring a realistic effect to the entire story. His experience of participating in Vietnam War helped him to describe the story more perfectly. Therefore, this story makes many people fall into the illusion of passing through the jungle of Vietnam with a gun on their shoulders. The story was based on situations that Tim O’Brien and his army comrades faced with during the Vietnam War (O’Brien’s). Unlike other obvious historical stories that drops bombs and bullets or explodes land mines everywhere, it spreads its story like a sunlight coming through the dark and damp Vietnam jungle by bursting comical gesture from the most desperate circumstances of war and telling the story about the extremely universal human inner, such as desire, despair, and