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Collection of short stories by Tim O'Brien nigh the Vietnam State of war

The Things They Carried

Outset edition cover
Author	Tim O'Brien
Country	United States
Language	English language
Genre	Historical Fiction
Published	March 28, 1990
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Media type	Print (hardcover, paperback)
Pages	233
ISBN	0767902890

The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division.

O'Brien more often than not refrains from political debate and discourse regarding the Vietnam War. He was dismayed that people in his home town seemed to have so little understanding of the war and its globe. It was in part a response to what he considered ignorance that he wrote The Things They Carried.^[1] It was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1990.^[2]

Many of the characters are semi-autobiographical, sharing similarities with figures from his memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home (1973/paperback 1999). In The Things They Carried, O'Brien plays with the genre of metafiction; he writes using verisimilitude. His use of real place names and inclusion of himself equally the protagonist blurs fiction and not-fiction.^[3] As part of this effect, O'Brien dedicates The Things They Carried to the fictional men of the "Alpha Company," contributing to the novel actualization to be a war memoir.^[four]

Plot summaries [edit]

"The Things They Carried"

Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, the leader of a platoon of soldiers in Vietnam, carries physical reminders of Martha, the object of his unrequited love. Thoughts of Martha often distract Lieutenant Cross from his team's objectives. A death in the squad under his supervision causes Cross to reconsider his priorities; as he was heartbroken, he burns and throws away all reminders of Martha in order to focus on the mission and avert distractions.^[5]

"Honey"

Cross and O'Brien reminisce about the war and nearly Martha. O'Brien asks if he can write a story almost Cross, expressing his memories and hopes for the future; Cross agrees, thinking that peradventure Martha will read it and come up detect him.^[six]

"Spin"

A serial of unrelated memories from the war are narrated from O'Brien's point of view. It includes moments of camaraderie and beauty: a joke of a hate letter to the Draft Board; learning a pelting dance betwixt battles.^[7]

"On the Rainy River"

O'Brien gets drafted equally soon as he graduates from higher. He is reluctant to go to war and considers fleeing the typhoon; he begins to travel north to the Canada–US border on the Rainy River. Near the border, he encounters an elderly stranger who allows him to piece of work through his internal struggle. O'Brien is given the opportunity to escape; however, the societal pressures are too much for him. He goes to war ashamed with his inability to face the consequences of leaving.^[eight]

"Enemies and Friends"

Told in ii sections, the developing relationship betwixt soldiers Jensen and Strunk is shown. At first regularly antagonized by one another, the ii are drawn toward respect and friendship by the stress and horrors of warfare. Ultimately, they agree that if one should be wounded, the other must deal a fatal accident as a form of mercy.^[9]

"How to Tell a True State of war Story"

O'Brien explores the telling of war stories by comrades, revealing that truth is delicate and malleable. Annihilation tin can be faked ... but generally, only the worst events can be proven real. He concludes that, in the end, the truth of a story doesn't affair and so much equally what the story is trying to say.^[ten]

"The Dentist"

In guild to mourn Curt Lemon, a man O'Brien did non know well, he shares a brief recollection near a bizarre interaction between Lemon and an army dentist. Lemon, who is afraid of dentists, faints before the dentist can examine him. After that night, nevertheless, he complains of a phantom tooth anguish and then astringent a tooth is pulled - fifty-fifty though it's perfectly healthy. Lemon has felt he needs to prove himself in front of his men and be the fearless man all soldiers are supposed to be.^[eleven]

"Sweetheart of the Vocal Tra Bong"

O'Brien recounts the legendary (and almost certainly exaggerated) tale of Rat Kiley'due south first assignment, almost the Vocal Tra Bong river. The expanse is so isolated that one of the soldiers flies his hometown girlfriend in past helicopter. At first, she cooks, cleans, and tends to the soldiers' wounds, only she gradually assimilates into Vietnamese guerrilla civilisation, fifty-fifty wearing a necklace fabricated of human being tongues, and disappears into the jungle.^[12]

"Stockings"

O'Brien explains how Henry Dobbins wore the stockings of his girlfriend effectually his neck to bed, and sometimes to battle. Fifty-fifty when the girlfriend breaks things off, he keeps the stockings around his neck, as their powers take been demonstrated.^[thirteen]

"Church building"

The platoon discovers an abandoned building beingness used every bit a sort of church building, inhabited past monks who bring them food and supplies. The men discuss their relationships with churches, and for the most part, capeesh the interaction with other people and the peace of the building. Henry Dobbins wants to become a priest, but decides otherwise.^[14]

"The Man I Killed"

O'Brien describes a human he killed in My Khe, and how he did information technology. He makes up a life story for the man, torturing himself with the idea that the victim had been a gentle soul.^[xv]

"Ambush"

O'Brien'south daughter asks if he killed anyone in the war; he lies to her that he did not. He then tells the story of an ambush outside My Khe, in which O'Brien kills a fellow who may or may not have wanted to harm him.^[sixteen]

"Style"

The platoon witnesses a immature Vietnamese girl dancing through the burned remains of her village, and contend over whether it's a ritual or merely what she likes to do. Later, Azar mocks the daughter, and Dobbins rebukes him.^[17]

"Speaking of Courage"

After his service, Norman Bowker is at a loss. His one-time girlfriend has married someone else, his closest friends are expressionless. He reflects on the medals he won in Vietnam, and imagines telling his male parent nigh both these and the medals he did not win. Ultimately, although he has no i to share these memories with, he finds catharsis in imagined conversations.^[18]

"Notes"

O'Brien says that Bowker asked him to write the previous story, and that he hanged himself three years afterward unable to regain his footing and observe whatsoever pregnant in life later on the war. O'Brien muses over the suspicion that, without Harvard and writing, he also might take lost the will to alive after returning from Vietnam.^[xix]

"In the Field"

When Kiowa is killed on the banks of a river, during a mission led by Jimmy Cross, Cross takes responsibility for his death. He writes to Kiowa's male parent while the others search for the body - equally usual, Azar jokes effectually at first. Another soldier as well feels responsible for the death, as he did not relieve Kiowa; the story ends with the body beingness found in the mud, and both soldiers left to their guilt.^[20]

"Proficient Form"

O'Brien reiterates that the existent truth does not have to be the same equally the story truth, and that it is the emotions evoked past the story that matter. He says that his story about killing a human being on the trail outside My Khe was fabricated, merely he wanted to provoke the same feelings in the reader that he felt during the war.^[21]

"Field Trip"

After finishing the story, "In the Field," O'Brien says, he and his 10-year-old daughter visit the site of Kiowa'south expiry with an interpreter. The field looks unlike from his memory of information technology, but he leaves a pair of Kiowa's moccasins in the spot where he believes Kiowa sank. In this way, he comes to terms with his friend'due south death.^[22]

"The Ghost Soldiers"

O'Brien recounts the 2 times he was wounded. The kickoff time, he is treated past Rat Kiley, and is impressed with the man'southward courage and skill. The second time, he is treated past Kiley's replacement, Bobby Jorgenson; Jorgenson is incompetent, and nearly kills O'Brien. Furious, O'Brien promises revenge, but tin can recruit only Azar. They scare Jorgenson by pretending to be enemy soldiers, but the soldier proves that he is not a coward, and then O'Brien lets become of his resentment.^[23]

"Night Life"

O'Brien tells the 2d-manus business relationship of Rat Kiley'south injury: warned of a possible attack, the platoon is on edge. Kiley reacts past distancing himself, the stress causing him first to be silent for days on end, and and so to talk constantly. He has a breakup from the pressure of being a medic, and shoots himself in the toe in order to get released from combat. No 1 questions his bravery.^[24]

"The Lives of the Dead"

O'Brien remembers his very first meet with a expressionless body, that of his babyhood sweetheart Linda. Suffering from a brain tumor, Linda died at the historic period of ix and O'Brien was deeply affected by her funeral. In Vietnam, O'Brien explains, the soldiers go on the dead live past telling stories about them; in this fashion, he keeps Linda alive by telling her story.^[25]The idea and presence of death has shown to have a large effect on O'Brien.

Characters [edit]

Principal characters [edit]

Tim O'Brien

The narrator and the protagonist. While modeled after the author and sharing the same name, O'Brien (within the book) is a fictional character. The author intentionally blurs this distinction.

Lt. Jimmy Cross

The platoon leader, who is obsessed with a young woman dorsum dwelling house, Martha (who does not return his feelings). He later believes that his obsession led to the death of Ted Lavender.

Bob "Rat" Kiley

A young medic whose exaggerations are complemented past his occasional cruelty. Eventually, he sees too much gore and begins to suspension down, imagining "the bugs are out to become [him]."

Norman Bowker

A soldier who O'Brien says attempted to save Kiowa the nighttime he died. When Kiowa slips into the "shitfield", Bowker repeatedly tries to save him simply is unable to; as a result, he feels guilty for Kiowa's death later on the war. His memories go on to haunt Norman at home as he realizes that the world has moved on from the state of war, and wants naught to practise with the "hell" in Vietnam. He is continually haunted by the fact that he could not salvage Kiowa from sinking nether the "shitfield" on a rainy night. However, O'Brien admits eventually that Norman did not fail to save Kiowa, that was fictional, and it is implied that O'Brien himself was the i who could not save him. After the war he briefly assists O'Brien in writing a story most Vietnam, just he hangs himself with a jump rope in an Iowa YMCA facility, leaving no note and his family shocked.

Henry Dobbins

Car gunner. A homo who, despite having a rather large frame, is gentle and kind. He is very superstitious; as a result, he wears his girlfriend'south pantyhose around his neck as a protective "charm", even subsequently she dumps him. He briefly contemplates becoming a monk after the state of war due to their acts of clemency.

Kiowa

A empathetic and talkative soldier; he demonstrates the importance of talking near one'due south bug and traumatic experiences. He is also a devout Baptist and a Native American that occasionally feels contempt and distrust towards white people. However, he appears to be Tim O'Brien's best friend in the visitor. Kiowa ofttimes helps other soldiers bargain with their own deportment, such equally taking the lives of other human beings. He is eventually killed when camping out in the "shitfield."

Mitchell Sanders

He is the radiotelephone operator for the platoon. Like O'Brien, he is as well a storyteller and is portrayed as a mentor.

Ted Lavender

A grenadier. He dies from a gunshot wound to the dorsum of the caput. He is notorious for using tranquilizers to cope with the pain of war, and for carrying a (rather large—vi to eight ounces) stash of "premium dope" with him. Cross blames himself for Lavender's death, as he was fantasizing virtually Martha when Lavender was shot.

Curt Lemon

A immature man who frequently attempts to assume the role every bit a tough soldier. Still, he is as well skilful friend of Rat Kiley. Lemon dies later on setting off a rigged artillery shell. In one of the book'southward more agonizing scenes, O'Brien and Dave Jensen help clear the trees of Curt's scattered remains, during which Jensen sings "Lemon Tree" (something that "wakes [Tim] up"). After Lemon dies, Kiley writes a long, eloquent letter to Lemon's sister, describing his friendship with Lemon and emphasizing how expert a person Lemon was; Lemon's sister never responds, which crushes Kiley emotionally.

Azar

A young, rather unstable soldier who engages in needless and frequent acts of brutality. In one story, he blows up an orphan puppy that Ted Lavender had adopted by strapping it to a Claymore mine, then detonating it. He too aids Tim O'Brien in gaining revenge on Bobby Jorgenson, but mocks O'Brien when he'south not willing to have the revenge farther. At one bespeak, Azar breaks downward emotionally, revealing that his cruelty is merely a defense mechanism.

Dave Jensen and Lee Strunk

Pocket-size soldiers who are the main characters of "Enemies" and "Friends". Jensen fights with Strunk over a stolen jackknife, but they became uneasy friends afterwards. They each sign a pact to kill the other if he is ever faced with a "wheelchair wound". Later on Strunk steps on a rigged mortar round and loses a leg, he begs Jensen non to impale him. Jensen obliges, merely seems to have an enormous weight relieved when he learns "Strunk died somewhere over in Chu Lai". Jensen is sometimes mentioned singing "Lemon Tree" after Brusque Lemon'southward abrupt decease. Jensen likewise appears in "The Lives of the Expressionless", where he pressures O'Brien to shake hands with a dead Vietnamese.

Bobby Jorgenson

Rat Kiley'due south replacement, subsequently Rat "put a circular through his pes" due to breaking under force per unit area. Green and terrified, he is dull to aid O'Brien when he is shot in the behind. Jorgenson nearly kills O'Brien afterwards failing to treat him for daze. Filled with rage afterwards his recovery, O'Brien elicits assist from Azar to conspire and punish Jorgenson with a nighttime of terrifying pranks. Later on, O'Brien and Jorgenson become friends. Jorgenson may be a reference to a similarly-named graphic symbol from The Caine Mutiny.

Themes [edit]

Genre

The Things They Carried is a war novel. Literary Critic David Wyatt points out that O'Brien's novel is like to the works of Wilfred Owen, Stephen Crane, George Orwell, and Ernest Hemingway.^[26] O'Brien utilizes a style of writing that combines both fiction and nonfiction together into one piece. When asked to describe how he blurs this line betwixt the ii genres, O'Brien says "I set out to write a book with the feel of utter and absolute reality, a work of fiction that would read like nonfiction and attach to the conventions of a memoir: dedicating the book to the characters, using my name, drawing on my ain life. This was a technical challenge. My goal was to compose a fiction with the texture, audio and authentic-seeming weight of nonfiction."^[27]

Truth vs Reality

Some other theme that is highlighted in the brusque story "Good Form," is when the narrator makes a distinction between "story truth" and "happening truth." O'Brien talks nigh truth and reality in relation to the story by describing, "I tin say that the book's form is intimately connected to how I, as a human being, tend to view the world unfolding itself effectually me. It's sometimes difficult to separate external 'reality' from the internal processing of that reality."^[27] O'Brien'southward fluid and elliptical negotiation of truth in this context finds echoes in works labeled every bit 'not-fiction novels'.

Imagination/Comedy

Another of import theme O'Brien highlights is the accent on imagination and pretending. He says that this theme, "That'southward an important part of my piece of work. I'thou a believer in the power of the imagination in ordinary human lives, and it's much more than important that we often credit."^[27] O'Brien goes on to say, "And that is, I remember, key to why I'm a fiction writer. If that element were not nowadays, I'd be doing nonfiction. Or I wouldn't exist a author at all."^[27] Tim O'Brien as well alludes to the difficulty in using nighttime comedy every bit a theme by say, "My guess is that I'll be remembered, if I'thousand remembered at all, for my so-called tragedies: The Things They Carried, Going After Cacciato, If I Dice in a Combat Zone and In the Lake of the Wood. Personally, I consider Tomcat in Dear, if not my best book, certainly up there among the best. Yet I realize the most "literary" folks volition disagree. In the end, it'due south a thing of taste, I suppose. My humour, which tends toward the outrageous, is plainly not for anybody."^[27]

Morality

O'Brien too shows the constant struggle of morality throughout the story during the Vietnam War. A newspaper from Brigham Young University highlights the conflict that soldiers face up when transitioning from civilian life to soldier life in relation to morality. It states, "As demonstrated through the soldiers' experiences with pleasance, the soldiers' moral lawmaking must modify from that of their noncombatant lives in guild for them to find moral justification in the everyday violence war requires."^[28] The paper goes on to acknowledge that, "In O'Brien's The Things They Carried, the concept of morality is complicated past the handling of violence and a connection between violence and pleasance; resultantly, morality must exist defined on a spectrum rather than a binary scale."^[29]

Belief

Additionally, the character Tim references writing the book Going Afterward Cacciato which the author Tim had written and published previously. The theme of assertive in the people effectually you and having reliable people with you comes from the time period being filled with people who are opposed to the action of war. This causes the people who are drafted into the mutual hate to band together to live.^[30]

Adaptations [edit]

Film

A film adaptation of the book, directed by Rupert Sanders and starring Tom Hardy, is currently in pre-product.

The story "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" was made into a motion-picture show in 1998, titled A Soldier'south Sweetheart starring Kiefer Sutherland. Premiering at the Seattle International Film Festival it was shortly released on VHS, and was re-released in theaters in Belgium in 2010. Receiving expert reviews from critics, the film was nominated for "Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special" and won an honour for "Best Audio Editing - Television receiver Movies of the Week - Dialogue & ADR."^[31]

Theatre

The legal rights to adapt the book into a play were awarded to James R. Stowell. The book was adapted into a play and it premiered at The History Theatre in Saint Paul, Minnesota, March 14, 2014. A second production was performed at The Lied Center, Lincoln Nebraska November 5, 2015. The stories "The Things They Carried," "On the Rainy River," "How to Tell a True War Story," "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong," "The Homo I Killed," and "Lives of the Dead" were adapted for the theatre in March 2011 past the Eastern Washington University Theatre Department equally part of the universities' Get Lit! Literary Festival in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Arts The Big Read 2011, of which The Things They Carried was the featured novel.^[32] The aforementioned department remounted the production in December 2011 for inclusion as a Participating Entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.^[33] The production was selected as an alternate for KCACTF Region VII, as well as receiving other KCACTF honors for the production'due south director, actors, and production staff.^[34]

Music

The band Telly Girl features a song off their 2014 album 'French Exit' chosen 'Pantyhose'. The song alludes to the "Stockings" chapter from the book and references Henry Dobbins and his girlfriend'due south stockings, which he ties around his neck to keep him from impairment. Lyrics such every bit,"And when the bullets came, he didn't duck; He wrapped her pantyhose around his neck; And he could experience their magic working; Keeping him from harm; Away to some place mystical and warm; His lucky charm" clearly references to Dobbins and his tactic that the scent of his girlfriend'southward stockings protect him and take him some place far from Vietnam.

Games

"Carry. A game about war." is a part-playing game (2006) design by Nathan D. Paoletta : its author describes information technology every bit "heavily inspired past the films Platoon and Total Metal Jacket and the novel The Things They Carried"^[35]

Publication [edit]

Earlier the book's publication in 1990, five of the stories: "The Things They Carried," "How to Tell a Truthful War Story," "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bell," "The Ghost Soldiers," and "The Lives of the Dead" were published in Esquire.^[36]

"Speaking of Courage" was originally published (in heavily modified course) as a chapter of O'Brien'south before novel Going After Cacciato.

"The Things They Carried" was also included in the 1987 volume of The Best American Short Stories, edited by Ann Beattie^[37] and the second edition of Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama by Robert DiYanni.

Reception [edit]

The Things They Carried has received critical acclaim and has been established as i of the preeminent pieces of Vietnam War literature.^[38] It has sold over 2 million copies worldwide^[39] and celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2010. It has received multiple awards such every bit France's Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger Honor and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, besides as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Volume Critics Circumvolve Laurels.^[40]

O'Brien has expressed surprise at how the volume has get a staple in middle schools and high schools, stating that he "certainly hadn't imagined fourteen year-old kids and eighteen yr-olds and those even in their early twenties reading the book and bringing such fervor to information technology, which comes from their own lives, really. The volume is applied to a bad childhood or a broken home, and these are the things they're carrying. And in a manner, it's extremely flattering, and other times, it tin can exist depressing."^[41]

In 2014, the volume was included in Amazon.com'southward list of 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime^[42] and credited equally the inspiration for a National Veterans Art Museum exhibit.^[43]

It was included in the Library of Congress 2016 showroom "America Reads" of the public'due south option of 65 of "the nearly influential books written and read in America and their bear upon on our lives".^[44]

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External links [edit]

• An Index to The Things They Carried

jonesgleir1996.blogspot.com

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