Friday, May 7, 2010

The Things They carried

Over the course of the war men found a large amount of difficulties before during and after the war. Many of the men thought that after the war life was hard and feel that they need help to cope with the burden of having blood on their hands and what they should do with the blood. They want to feel mercy from someone to understand the feeling of pain being lifted from them. If they could receive that they would feel so much better about what they have done and who they have done this to. For Norman the lake was a symbol of peace where he can drive around and visit memories that he has had with his friends in the past. When after the war he has lost his friend and does not know what to do or where to go. While also his old girlfriend has moved on and left him before he went to the war. Norman wants that experience that he can feel the mercy of talking to someone. Then he could find a way to live with himself and not feel the full blame of Kiowa’s death. Men would find ways to cope with the realism, but Norman could not before he committed suicide.
O'Brien, Tim "The Things They Carried"
By Ryan Barber.

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