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      • New York Times Reviewer Robert R. Harris considers The Things We Carried an exceptional war narrative because O’Brien is able to move “beyond the horror of the fighting to examine with sensitivity and insight the nature of courage and fear, by questioning the role that imagination plays in helping to form our memories and our own versions of truth” (http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20...)Although these stories are often brutal and graphic, for which the book has been placed on many Banned Book...
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    Mar 28, 1990 · A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

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    Jun 20, 2017 · Throughout The Things They Carried, O’Brien famously distinguishes between “happening-truth,” or an accurate and verifiable account of historical events, and “story truth,” or readers’ genuine experience of the story, even if the details are invented. The book blurs the lines between fiction and truth even further in its dedication ...

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    Jan 1, 2004 · The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is phenomenal war story about the soldiers of the Vietnam War. O’Brien depicts what the men have to carry with them throughout the war. He shows that the soldiers not only carry what is on their backs, but they carry fear, passion, excitement, anger and sadness with them along their journey in the war.

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  7. www.commonsensemedia.org › the-things-they-carriedThe Things They Carried Book Review | Common Sense Media

    Parents need to know that The Things They Carried is a gut-wrenching combination of novel, story collection, and memoir partly based on the real experiences of acclaimed author and war veteran Tim O'Brien during the Vietnam War. Focusing on the physical horror and emotional destructiveness of warfare, the….

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    The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division.

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  9. www.reddit.com › r › booksJust finished Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried : r/books

    Whenever someone asks me “what’s your favorite book?”, The Things They Carried is my answer. I read it in high school for my AP Language class. It was my absolute favorite. It stuck with me so well that the following year, on the AP Literature exam, I wrote the open-choice literary argument essay using it (essay question 3).

  10. www.reddit.com › r › books"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien - one of the best ...

    I read The Things They Carried for the first time this year, loved it, and then started reading through the rest of Tim O'Brien's works. So far there hasn't been a book I've disliked, but I highly recommend reading Going After Cacciato, as well as If I Die In A Combat Zone.