1、 A war story is often a recounting of a horrible personal experience, especially one involving fighting, violence, danger and even bloodshed. However, The Things They Carried is a story that records the experience of the narrator OBrien during the Vietnam War, and the impact on individuals including
2、 himself from war. The memories they got from the war and how these things affected them and their life after the war. OBrien named the book of The Things They Carried, and use the first chapter to describe everything they needed. This is a long list consist of necessities and near-necessities, such
3、 as C-rations, water, identify card; things which decided by their own duty, like lieutenants compass and maps, medics morphine and plasma, tents and explosives use for mountain field; and things carried individuals. “Ted Lavender carried six or seven ounces of premium dope. Norman Bowker carried a
4、diary. Rat Kiley carried comic books. Kiowa, a devout Baptist, carried an illustrated New Testament”. These things may seem funny to most of us. Think about it, when an earthquake comes, we carry money, jewelries, real estate certifications and many other precious things. But all they carried were r
5、idiculous. But those are not at all, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, he carried the letters and pictures from a girl named Martha, the girl he loved. “In the late afternoon, after a days march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his finge
6、rs, and spend the last hour of light pretending.” OBrien describes a plot that looks like the story is out of the environment of the war. Jimmy tries to force him to put his attention on the war that he had burned the letters of Martha, but cannot burn from his brain. OBrien gave soldiers various ch
7、aracters through the description of what they carried, but on the battlefield, their characteristic be destroyed, people become the moving items without feeling. People lost their emotions in the war, keep them look like groups of dead. They became confused withthe war they were fighting for, includ
8、ing the narrator OBrien that he thought they were fighting for a wrong war in wrong place with a wrong time “I was drafted to fight the war I hated“. People hate war, and more about no reason or unknown reason war.战争故事通常是一个讲述一个可怕的个人经验,特别是涉及到战争、暴力、危险甚至流血事件。然而,他们携带的东西是一个故事 ,记录的经验旁白奥布莱恩在越南战争期间,从战争和对个人的
9、影响包括他自己。回忆他们在战争中,这些事情是如何影响他们和他们的生活。O brien 命名的书他们携带的东西,并使用第一章描述了他们需要的一切。这是一长串的必需品和 near-necessities,如型口粮、水、识别卡;那些由他们自己的责任,决定像中尉的指南针和地图,医生的吗啡和等离子体,帐篷和炸药用于山地;进行个人的事情。 ”Ted 薰衣草六、七盎司的优质涂料诺曼 Bowker 日记。老鼠 Kiley 漫画书。基奥瓦人,作为一个虔诚的浸信会,进行一个说明新约”。这些东西看起来有趣对我们大多数人。想想,当地震来临时,我们携带钱、珠宝、房地产证书和其他许多宝贵的东西。但他们都是荒谬的。但这些不
10、是,中尉吉米十字架,他从一个女孩名叫玛莎的信件和照片,他爱的那个女孩。 “在下午晚些时候,在三月的一天之后, 他会挖散兵坑,洗手在食堂,打开信件,让他们在他的指尖,和花光最后一小时假装。 “O brien 描述了故事情节看起来像战争的环境。吉米试图强迫他把他的注意力集中在战争,他烧毁了玛莎的书信,但从他的大脑不能燃烧。O brien 还给士兵不同人物通过他们进行的描述,但在战场上, 他们的特征被摧毁,人没有感觉成为移动物品。人在战争中失去了自己的情绪,让他们像一群死。他们成了与他们争夺的战争混淆, 包括叙述者 O brien,他认为他们为之而战的一场错误的战争在错误的时间错误的地点“我起草打击我讨厌战争”。人们讨厌战争, 更没有理由或原因不明的战争。
