Term Papers on The Things They Carried

Term Paper Title	The Things They Carried
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The Things They Carried

In the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien the author tells about his experiences in the Vietnam war by telling various war stories. The quote, "It has been said of war that it is a world where the past has a strong grip on the present, where machines seemed sometimes to have more will power than me, where nice boys (girls) were attracted to them, where bodies ruptured and burned and stand, where the evil thing trying to kill you could look disconnecting human and where except in your imagination it was impossible to be heroic." relates to each of his stories.
The first part of the quote matches with the first story, The Things They Carried.  The story told about the items that each soldier took with them to the war.  The quote says that the past has a strong grip on the present.  The items that the soldiers have with them remind them of there past.  Sometimes the soldiers have to let go of something they have because of certain conditions.  For example Jimmy Cross had a good luck from his girlfriend Martha, it was a pebble that was from the Jersey shoreline.  She sent it to him because it reminded her of how they are "together but separate".  Jimmy took this everywhere during the war and kept it in his mouth.  When one of his friends got killed during action he got rid of the pebble because he thought it was a distraction.
The second part of the quote, which says, "Where machines seemed sometimes to have more will power than me" Relates to the story "The Man I Killed".  In this story the author talks about the man he killed.  He starts out by describing the dead person then he starts to regret it.  The quote states than in war a machine, which could be a gun, sometimes has more power than a person does.  The author noticed this after he killed the enemy soldier, he noticed that it was the gun that killed the person and not him.  This made him feel better after a while, but never forgot about the person he killed.
The war story named "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" relates to the third part of the quote, which says "where nice boys (girls) were attracted to them".  The story was about a girl that was changed dramatically by the Vietnam War.  It started in an outpost were injured soldiers were brought so that they can be treated.  A person named Mark Fossie brought his girlfriend from Cleveland Heights Senior High, she was about 17 years old.  All of the other people...

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