: About Me

"The Misconception of 'Love' During War" In Tim O'Brien's short story "The Things They Carried", the characters themselves probably could not tell you why they carried many of the things they did. O'Brien moves beyond the horror of fighting in the Vietnam War to examine the nature of courage and fear. The short story may seem like just a list of physical things that the soldiers are carrying, but is really about what they carried mentally. Though each character is very different from the next, each of their individual stories is interrelated. The main character is Jimmy Cross who undergoes...