The Things They Carried

















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Quotes



page 180 "What stories can do i guess, is make things present I can look at things I never looked at.I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God.I can be brave.I can make myself feel again."



page 238 "In Vietnam to we had ways of making the dead seem not quite so dead.Shaking hands, that was one way.By slighting death ,by acting,we pretended it was not the terrible thing it was."





i like the idea of the book but i dont like how its not one story line the hole way though but a bunch of short storys thw way Tim O'Brian set it up made it a little harder to read then the other books we have read






Some things the men carry are universal, like a two-pound poncho that can be used as a raincoat or tent. Most of the men carry a M-16 assault rifle and several rounds of ammunition. Several men carry grenade launchers. All men carry the weight of memory They carry Vietnam itself, in the heavy weather and the dusty soil.Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carries the maps, the compasses, and the responsibility for his men’s lives. The medic, Rat Kiley carries morphine malaria tablets and supplies for serious wounds. they all carry the weight of the fear of what is still to come to wonder if they will live to see the next day or live to see their loved ones again.

facts about the Vietnam war


6,598 were officers, average age 28 years old

58,148 Americans were killed and 304,000 wounded out of 2.59 million who served.



The average age of those killed in Vietnam was 23 years old.



out of the 50,274 enlisted, average age 22 years old.

Cast



Tim O'Brien

Lieutenant Jimmy Cross

Henry Dobbins

Dave Jensen

Ted Lavender

Mitchell Sanders

Norman Bowker

Kiowa

Rat Kiley

Azar

Curt Lemon






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song:good night Saigon

Artist/singer:Billy Joel










































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