The men deal with the uncertainty, fear, and death around them in sometimes surprisingly tender, irreverently funny, or horrifyingly brutal ways. Choose specific passages from O’Brien’s story “The Things They Carried” to examine how these characters respond to their circumstances and the men around them. What ideas or conclusions does the story seem to suggest about young men and war through these examples.
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Tim O’Brien, “The Things They Carried”
January 4th, 2020