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Term Paper Title	Categorization Of The Things Or Objects The Characters Carry In O’ Brien’s Story
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Categorization of the Things or Objects the Characters Carry in                    O’ Brien’s Story

William Timothy O’Brien has written many stories during his lifetime.  The first story he wrote was when he was nine years old.  As O’Brien was growing up, he took a break from writing.  He began again while serving in the Vietnam War.  When he began writing again, he quickly readapted to an autobiographical style of writing.  These wartime stories are what have made O’Brien one of the leading writers today. In the story “The Things They Carried,” O’Brien shows how soldiers live war, and how the objects they carry are related to several different circumstances. In this excellent story, it is correct to say that O’Brien makes as thing and categorize the “things or objects” carried by the characters into three different groups.

In the first part of the story, the writer shows us that what the characters carry depends of what they need. It is logical to think that soldiers would never go to war without the basic things they need; such as munitions, food, and water. “The things they [carry are] largely determined by necessity ” (O’Brien 1425). Every platoon that goes to war always has some special elements depending on the land. These necessities are described by the author as dictated necessities. “Because the land was mined and body-trapped, it was SOP for each man to carry a steel- centered, nylon-covered flak jacket…”(1426). Also if you are going to a place where many mosquitoes are, you may need something that keeps them away from you. In the story, O’Brien takes care of every single detail as mosquitoes and he give us what the soldiers use to have control over them. The author makes a good job even with other kind of necessities soldiers have such as sentimental. By listening to stories we can understand that soldiers in war always have very close to them some objects that stands for something beyond or larger than itself.  The necessities of the soldiers are not only the war elements, but also some emotional objects. The combinations of those two are the essential things in war according to O’ Brien.

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