The things they carried photo essay

The things the men carry help define them as individuals because some of the things they carried showed their personality. For example, Jimmy Cross carried a pebble with him that the girl he loves sent to him as a good luck charm. Kiowa was a devout Baptist, so he carried a new testament.

Every person has their own story. In the novel “The Things They Carried”, by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien talks about his experiences of being thrown into the Vietnam war as a young innocent soldier and explains how not only did he become strongly affected by the war, but he was able to watch his fellow soldiers change into new people as well.

When his girlfriend gets to their campsite, she is portrayed by the soldiers as a “very tall, big-boned blonde. At best, Rat said, she was seventeen years old, fresh out of Cleveland Heights Senior High. She had long white legs and blue eyes and a complexion like strawberry ice cream. Very friendly, too. ”

One of the first symbols that Mary Anne symbolizes is the people living in America during the Vietnam war. The soldiers families that were living in America did not experience the war first hand, but they did see it on newspapers, television and the stories the soldiers told when they came back from the war.