Memory over Things
My memories are filled with things or objects from my childhood that have emotional importance. When I was young, my mother used to send me lot of things from the United States of America. Some of those things were very useful and some of them were not, but that all depended on how important I considered them. It could have been just basic things that any children did not care about but to me it meant the world, or it could have been something every child wanted, but to me it had no importance at all in my eyes. I remember this black painted Eastpak book bag that my mother sent me years ago when I was about 10 years old. She sent me the bag at a moment it was trending. The day I received the book bag, I was surprised and happy. Not only was I happy that the book bag was beautiful, but I was also proud because I was able to tell and show my friends the book bag that my mother had bought me. It was important to me because even though we were not living in the same country, my mother was still thinking about me at all times. That object came at the right time and at the right moment. All the kids wanted the book bag because it was beautiful and fun. Although I used it only for a year, I still kept it with me for about 5 or 6 years because I thought maybe I would use it again or maybe I was too…show more content… In "The Things They Carried," O'Brien employs universal symbolism and allusion/metafiction to convey the literal and figurative burdens of war. He introduces the reader to some of the “things” the soldier had to carry through the jungles of Vietnam. As Robin Silbergleid noticed, O’Brien wants to emphasize the true war story by “focusing in particular on the use of bodily image and “things” of Vietnam”
