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Readers’ Notes for The Things They Carried

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showing not telling

by TheDuckOffender, August 08, 2012

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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.