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"the Things They Carried" - Tim O'brien - 1986 Introduction Tim O'Brien wrote the short story "The Things They Carried" in 1985. It was published in the August 1986 issue of Esquire and again the following year...

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Born and raised in Minnesota, William Timothy O’Brien (1946-) grew up in a middle-class family in the town of Worthington, where his father was a life-insurance salesman and his mother a housewife....

The Things They Carried is a collection of related stories by Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam War, originally published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin, 1990. While apparently based on some of O'Brien's own experiences,...

Should Christopher Hitchens win a National Book Award, you can be sure he won't thank any higher powers.The author, columnist and commentator was nominated for "God Is Not Great," a polemic with a self-evident theme. Hitchens' book received mixed reviews, but became a best seller...

In the following essay, Heberle provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of The Things They Carried and locates the book within O'Brien's oeuvre.

In the following essay, Smith examines the representations of masculinity and femininity in five of the stories in The Things They Carried.

In the following essay, Wesley contrasts O'Brien's representation of the truth in If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried.

The women in the soldiers' lives in "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien play complex motivational role in this novel about the Vietnam War. The women are a burden and a problem as much as they are a reminder of what the soldiers want.

In "The Things They Carried," Tim O'Brien compares Azar's bold, immature, and insistent characteristics to Norman's courageous, reflective and distressed attitudes as a way to compare different attitudes toward war.

Explores the significance of the objects in Tim O'Brien's novel, The Things They Carried. Describes how O'Brien uses literary techniques to detail his characters and the tangible and intangible items they took with them and sometimes burdened over.