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The Things They Carried (Spark Notes Edition)

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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien was a well written book about soliders in the Vietnam war. It dealt with the struggles, hardships and pain felt by the soliders in the devastating war of the time. O'Brien focused on the emotions of the soliders before, during and after the war.

Personally, i enjoyed reading The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. The book focused on the lost emotions of our soliders from the war in Vietnam. As a sixteen year old boy, my eyes were opened to a world where danger is present and everyday could be the last. Although O'Brien jumped around from chapter to chapter talking about unrelevant ideas at times, his use of descritive detail allowed me to be captured by what he was saying on each page. The book as a whole seemed quite cluttered, but the individual chapters brought insight into war that dealt with the challenging of every human emotion. i agreed with most of the passages throughout the book, and could relate to most of the feelings of the main character as a pre-war civilian. O'Brien not only talks about the war; he also deals with the emotions felt before and after the war. i enjoyed reading The Things They Carried By Tim O'Brien, and recommend it to anyone who would like to learn more about the heros of the Vietnam War.