Broken and torn into pieces, yet at the end of the day there is still this addiction. This addiction makes the carrier feel wrapped up in a shell, a shell with no hope, but still moving forward because the idea of hope exists. Whoa! I have no idea what I said there, just kidding... I know what I said. Now if you listened that's great, that's oh so fantastic. If you did not, I carried the burden of thinking up some stuff that meant nothing. The Things They Carried also seemed to carry some burdens, scattered burdens.
The story is a giant list of things soldiers would carry while in the various jungles.
"What they carried varied by the mission" (8)
These things were not only material possessions, but inner thoughts and sorrows, superstitions, and (as mentioned earlier) some heavy burdens. I think the structure of O'Brien's narrative fits well with the impact he was trying to present to the reader. Behind this list of items lie these small stories. Stories within the narrative that provide deeper meaning toward the different things carried. Some of these include the pebble, or to get a little more gruesome, the thumb. As the stories continue, it makes the reader be able to understand why some of these things were carried. It also gives the reader an opportunity to think what some of the items meanings were (that maybe were not discussed as much). Whatever the case, I found that this writing style worked in this particular incidence because he was able to tell a story behind the list.
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