The Things They Carried Critical Analysis

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The book, The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien is a book about the Vietnam War. The theme in this novel is in war, many people die for insignificant reasons. I learned a lot of lessions about this book like because when they died it was just the a little bit of soldiers with them insted of a lot of soldiers with them .
An exsample of this was when kiowa dying by drouning in human waist when someone turnd a light on and someone els when they hung themselvs because he thought he could have done something to save kiowa. One thing i learned from his death was to stay close to the rest of the platoon instead of wandering off
Anouther time in the book when a soldier died in the book was when norman bowker later committed suicide because he