Essay Archive - Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried Eating Them Away
Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried Eating Them Away
For young people, the Vietnam War is a thing of the past and they can
only learn about it from second hand sources. In Tim O'brien's The Things
They Carried, it becomes very apparent that the Vietnam conflict has
proved to be one that many of the participants have not been able move
away from, while getting on with their lives. O²brien shows that the
conflict takes on a parasitic form that eats away on its victims for the
rest of their lives.
A parasite is defined as an organism t....
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