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Tim O'Brien's " The Things They Carried"
The story "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien talks a Lieutenant m, Jim Cross, and his love to a girl named Martha , that he carry her letters, photographs, and her love .As story goes on it describes and name varies ammunition that Cross's troop carry as standard operation procedures as well as some necessities such as food, can opener, pocket knives, heat tabs and others to cope with the weather .they carried one another, wounded or weak, they carried diseases. While these are physical things they are carrying, there are others things the carry such as fear from dying, fear from showing the fear itself, and emotions, memories of their families , loved ones.
As for Lieutenant Jim Cross he is carrying Martha in his heart, mind, imagination, whenever he has a chance he opens her letter read them imagine what he should have done when he was home with Martha which en contrast doesn't share him his emotion and imagination .The love of Martha makes Lieutenant Cross distracted and not doing what he should do as a leader and hisresponsibilities for the safety of his troop . While they were in a mission to check a tunnel Lieutenant cross was distracted with his imagination with Martha asking her , riding her bike , he couldn't bring himself to worry about security and safety, Ted lavender got shot on the head on his way back from peeing .
Because of the death of Lavender, he hated himself he had loved Martha more than his men ,and as consequence Lavender was now dead and this was something he would carry like a stone in his stomach . He finally realizes that she belong to another world and she is uninvolved with his, and she don't love him and never would. In the morning of Ted death he burned Martha's letters, the two photographs. He told himself no more fantasies. When he think about Martha only he think that she belong elsewhere .He realize that this isn't mount Sebastian ,it is a world where men die because of carelessness and stupidity .He is now determined to performs his duties firmly and without negligence . Now he will be strict in field discipline. And he will be careful when he send his men out. He will keep his troop moving at the proper pace. He will act and give orders as an officer. He know it wouldn't be something that soldiers will love but he reminds himself that his obligation was not to be loved but to lead .
Tim O'Brien's " The Things They Carried"
A Summary of "The Things They Carried"
The story "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien talks a Lieutenant m, Jim Cross, and his love to a girl named Martha , that he carry her letters, photographs, and her love .As story goes on it describes and name varies ammunition that Cross's troop carry as standard operation procedures as well as some necessities such as food, can opener, pocket knives, heat tabs and others to cope with the weather .they carried one another, wounded or weak, they carried diseases. While these are physical things they are carrying, there are others things the carry such as fear from dying, fear from showing the fear itself, and emotions, memories of their families , loved ones.
As for Lieutenant Jim Cross he is carrying Martha in his heart, mind, imagination, whenever he has a chance he opens her letter read them imagine what he should have done when he was home with Martha which en contrast doesn't share him his emotion and imagination .The love of Martha makes Lieutenant Cross distracted and not doing what he should do as a leader and hisresponsibilities for the safety of his troop . While they were in a mission to check a tunnel Lieutenant cross was distracted with his imagination with Martha asking her , riding her bike , he couldn't bring himself to worry about security and safety, Ted lavender got shot on the head on his way back from peeing .
Because of the death of Lavender, he hated himself he had loved Martha more than his men ,and as consequence Lavender was now dead and this was something he would carry like a stone in his stomach . He finally realizes that she belong to another world and she is uninvolved with his, and she don't love him and never would. In the morning of Ted death he burned Martha's letters, the two photographs. He told himself no more fantasies. When he think about Martha only he think that she belong elsewhere .He realize that this isn't mount Sebastian ,it is a world where men die because of carelessness and stupidity .He is now determined to performs his duties firmly and without negligence . Now he will be strict in field discipline. And he will be careful when he send his men out. He will keep his troop moving at the proper pace. He will act and give orders as an officer. He know it wouldn't be something that soldiers will love but he reminds himself that his obligation was not to be loved but to lead .