The Things They Carried
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Suggestions for Further Reading
Bates, Milton J. “Men, Women, and Vietnam.” America Rediscovered: Critical Essays on the Literature and Film of the Vietnam War. Eds. Owen Gilman Jr. and Lorrie Smith, 27–63. New York: Garland, 1990.
Beidler, Philip D. American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1982.
Calloway, Catherine. “‘How to Tell a True War Story’: Metafiction in The Things They Carried.” Critique 36 (Summer 1995): 249–257.
Hellman, John. American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
Herzog, Tobey C. Tim O’Brien. New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan, 1997.
Kaplan, Steven. Understanding Tim O’Brien. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.
Melling, Philip H. Vietnam in American Literature. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990.
O’Brien, Tim. “The Vietnam in Me.” New York Times Magazine, October 2, 1994.
Tegmark, Mats. In the Shoes of a Soldier: Communication in Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam Narratives. Sweden: Uppsala, 1998.
showing not telling
by TheDuckOffender, August 08, 2012
The secret O'Brien claimed to have kept may also have been depicted in that reoccurring emotional/fictional truth that we know oh so well from this story. Perhaps he even showed it in the first chapter, rather than telling it.
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0Literary period
by vickie12, September 04, 2012
What literary period was the things they carried written in?
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1Correction
by MendicantBias, October 21, 2012
Azar kicked O'Brein in the head not Jorgensen.
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