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What would You Do? Have you ever pondered the idea of how your life would be altered if you were forced to participate in a war in which you do not support? The Things They Carried by Tim O'brien is a novel about the Vietnam War, within this book is a display of different personalities and how they dealt with the circumstance that was presented to them. To a variety of people the Vietnam War was a unjust and unworthy war. But if in the end you can take some sort of experince out of what happened and say I am a better person because of it.In the Book Tim O'brien and Norman Bowker were both affected by the war mentally and physically as were other characters. Tim changed physically, but not severely. He got scars from the war, like when he got shot. "Out along the Song Tra Bong, a bullet inside me, all that pain, but for some reason what stuck to my memory was the smooth unblemished leather to his fine new boots."(page198), this quote shows that Tim O'brien was scared from his wound but was probably more scared within his mind. Also, Tim seemed to be ashamed of being shot because he got a scar but it was not out there in the open to be displayed to the public.
Approximate Word count = 804
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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