About the book: The Things They Carried
By: Tim O'Brien
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The Things They Carried is a Viet Nam story, of soldiers who fought in the war. The book is book is both fiction and non fiction. The Things They Carried shows characteristics of a soldier and his service in the Viet Nam war. The book has many different stories of a soldiers' journey through the jungles and other tearrains of Viet Nam.
War Genre:
In the book The Things They Carried, conflict, tragedy, and honor portray in the background of this war novel.
Conflict, erupts with the Viet Nam war in 1957. The book takes place in the year 1968 the most brutal year of the war.
Tragedy, happens to many people in the story. This happens to the fallen U.S. soldiers, who risked their lives to save others from being wounded or killed.
Honor, comes from within the pride of the military, when they answered the Call of Duty. The U.S. soldiers who put their lives on the line when they needed to fight for their country.
War Genre:
In the book The Things They Carried, conflict, tragedy, and honor portray in the background of this war novel.
Conflict, erupts with the Viet Nam war in 1957. The book takes place in the year 1968 the most brutal year of the war.
Tragedy, happens to many people in the story. This happens to the fallen U.S. soldiers, who risked their lives to save others from being wounded or killed.
Honor, comes from within the pride of the military, when they answered the Call of Duty. The U.S. soldiers who put their lives on the line when they needed to fight for their country.
The genre of The Things They Carried is a war genre, coming of age stories, and memory stories.