A war story is often a recounting of a horrible personal experience, especially one involving fighting, violence, danger and even bloodshed. However, The Things They Carried is a story that records the experience of the narrator O'Brien during the Vietnam War, and the impact on individuals including himself from war. The memories they got from the war and how these things affected them and their life after the war. O'Brien named the book of The Things They Carried, and use the first chapter to describe everything they needed. This is a long list consist of necessities and near-necessities, such as C-rations, water, identify card; things which decided by their own duty, like lieutenant's compass and maps, medic's morphine and plasma,
