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Satel, Sally L. "The Things They Carried. By Tim O'Brien. New York: Houghton Mifflin Press, 1990, 273 pages, $18.95." Journal of Traumatic Stress 5, no. 3 (July 1992): 517–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts.2490050318.

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Mahini, Ramtin Noor-Tehrani (Noor), Erin Barth, and Jed Morrow. "Tim O’Brien’s “Bad” Vietnam War: The Things They Carried & Its Historical Perspective." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 8, no. 10 (October 1, 2018): 1283. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0810.05.

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Tim O’Brien was sent to Vietnam as a foot soldier in 1969, during the later part of the Vietnam War that can be called the “bad” or unwinnable war. Based on his experience, O'Brien's writing about the Vietnam War in his award-winning fiction novels is always "bad," meaning that the war was terrible for American grunts like himself, his fellow soldiers, and Vietnamese civilians, with practically no good or inspiring stories. Nevertheless, O’Brien touches upon almost all problems of American soldiers in the Vietnam War, but not many peer-reviewed authors or online literary analysis websites could identify or discuss them all. The purpose of this article is to discuss the war details in O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and its historical perspective, so that young middle and high school readers can understand the meaning behind Tim O'Brien's writing about the Vietnam War. The goal is to summarize the entire big picture of the Vietnam War and to help students determine whether American soldiers’ actions, as described by Tim O’Brien, were morally right or wrong and were legal or forbidden according to the US law of war. The war-related issues that O’Brien mentioned in this novel are: boredom and meaningless death, abusive violence toward Vietnamese noncombatants, drug use, in-fighting, thefts within barracks, grief, rage, self-mutilation, mutilation of enemy corpses, and senseless animal and civilian killings.
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Vernon, Alex. "A Kinetoscope of War: The Cinematic Effects of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried." Journal of Narrative Theory 48, no. 2 (2018): 194–224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jnt.2018.0008.

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Chen, Tina. ""Unraveling the Deeper Meaning": Exile and the Embodied Poetics of Displacement in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"." Contemporary Literature 39, no. 1 (1998): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1208922.

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Gratch, Ariel. "Teaching Identity Performance through Tim O'Brien'sThe Things They Carried." Communication Teacher 29, no. 2 (January 30, 2015): 71–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17404622.2014.1001418.

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Jeong, Seo In. "Understanding Trauma Narrative Tactics in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried." NEW STUDIES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE 70 (August 31, 2018): 231–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.21087/nsell.2018.08.70.231.

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Kaplan, Steven. "The Undying Uncertainty of the Narrator in Tim O'Brien'sThe Things They Carried." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 35, no. 1 (October 1993): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00111619.1993.9936466.

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Thị Thu Hằng, Đào. "The Things They Carried or the attrition about the war by Tim O’Brien." Journal of Science, Social Science 60, no. 3 (2015): 14–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18173/2354-1067.2015-0003.

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Cochran, James. "‘They Carried the Land Itself’: Eco-Being, Eco-Trauma, and Eco-Recovery in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried." Journal of Ecohumanism 1, no. 1 (January 23, 2022): 57–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/joe.v1i1.1904.

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This essay calls for a wider use of Tina Amorok’s (2007) concepts of eco-Being, eco-trauma of Being, and eco-recovery of Being in ecocritical literary studies. I propose the adoption of Amorok’s concepts as a literary hermeneutic because it provides a theoretical model that positions ecological damage as central to wartime trauma. To demonstrate the effectiveness of Amorok’s framework, the following essay reads Tim O’Brien’s 1990 novel The Things They Carried alongside Amorok’s eco-Being, eco-trauma, and eco-recovery. Reading O’Brien’s text through Amorok’s model is particularly intriguing and noteworthy because almost no critics investigate the ecocritical dimensions of O’Brien’s novel. Yet, despite the absence of green scholarship surrounding O’Brien’s novel, Amorok’s framework, as I will show, draws attention to the environmental costs of war as depicted in O’Brien’s novel. Applying Amorok’s model as an ecocritical lens to The Things They Carried demonstrates how we can use Amorok’s tripartite structure to further unpack the ecological dimensions of fiction that seemingly have little to do with the environment.
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Pun, Bhim Bahadur, and Dae Wan Kim. "Private Irony in The Things They Carried by Tim O"Brien : From Nepalese Perspective." JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES 22, no. 4 (November 30, 2019): 105–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.21740/jas.2019.11.22.4.105.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Things they carried (O'Brien, Tim)"

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McClure, Benjamin Taylor. "Reading Through Displacement: Functionality of the Underlying Theme in Tim O'Brien's Fiction." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42514.

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Tim O'Brien, a contemporary author writing mostly about his combat experience in Vietnam, has written eight books to date. All involve Vietnam in some wayâ overtly, for the most part. He and his stories are well known stylistically for several traits including the blurred distinctions between what actually happened and â story truth,â something that did not really happen, but is true nonetheless. Within the story, he also blurs the line between what actually happens and what is imagined by the narrator or one of the characters; and, although he sometimes makes the distinction, he often does not. To help shed some light on this, there are a number of published interviews and articles wherein he discusses the themes, forms, and methods of his writing as well as his experiences. Research and analysis of O'Brien and his works show that, although his stories overtly deal with a myriad of other issues and themes, the complex and specific theme of displacement caused by trauma is present in all of his work, and can even be considered the engine that drives his stories and how they work with the reader. Additionally, Oâ Brienâ s well-known method of writing is actually a subtle yet intensely effective performance and enactment of this underlying theme of displacement. When used as a reading strategy, the theme itself clarifies and unlocks several points of contention about his texts such as O'Brien's generally negative treatment of women.
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Lima, Sergio Marino de. "The translation of traumatic memories of the Vietnam War into narrative memory: Tim O'Brien's The things they Carried and In the Lake of the Woods." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-835FKN.

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Em geral, as narrativas da Guerra do Vietnam, foram escritas por soldados americanos que sofreram e testemunharam eventos traumáticos em tempos de combate, os quais, por sua vez, os deixaram terrivelmente traumatizados. A presente pesquisa busca analisar como que os acontecimentos traumáticos dessa guerra, os quais recuperados pela memória dos soldados que lutaram lá, influenciam as narrativas ficcionais escritas por esses combatentes. Estudos psicológicos são citados a fim de conectar os aspectos da memória traumática e da memória narrativa. Dois exemplos da literatura da Guerra do Vietnam são analisados.
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Slimak, Louis Jason. "A MIND WITH A VIEW: COGNITIVE SCIENCE, NEUROSCIENCE AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1176747219.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Akron, Dept. of English, 2007.
"May, 2007." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 4/26/2009) Advisor, Sheryl Stevenson; Faculty Reader, Bob Pope; Department Chair, Diana Reep; Dean of the College, Ronald F. Levant; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Williams, Sadie. "An Analysis of Tim O'Briens Storytelling Techniques in Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried and In the Lake of the Woods Using Sigmund Freud's Dream Theory from On Dreams." Ohio Dominican University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=odu1470686569.

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Aukerman, Jason Michael. "The true war story: ontological reconfiguration in the war fiction of Kurt Vonnegut and Tim O'Brien." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7912/C25369.

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This thesis applies the ontological turn to the war fiction of veteran authors, Kurt Vonnegut and Tim O’Brien. It argues that some veteran authors desire to communicate truth through fiction. Choosing to communicate truth through fiction hints at a new perspective on reality and existence that may not be readily accepted or understood by those who lack combat experience. The non-veteran understanding of war can be more informed by entertaining the idea that a multiplicity of realities exists. Affirming the combat veteran reality—the post-war ontology—and acknowledging the non-veteran reality—rooted in what I label “pre-war” or “civilian” ontology—helps enhance the reader’s understanding of what veteran authors attempt to communicate through fiction. This approach reframes the dialogic interaction between the reader and the perspectives presented in veteran author’s fiction through an emphasis on “radical alterity” to the point that telling and reading such stories represent distinct ontological journeys. Both Kurt Vonnegut and Tim O’Brien provide intriguing perspectives on reality through their fiction, particularly in the way their characters perceive and express morality, guilt, time, mortality, and even existence. Vonnegut and O’Brien’s war experiences inform these perspectives. This does not imply that the authors hold an identical perspective on the world or that combat experience yields an ontological understanding of the world common to every veteran. It simply asserts that applying the ontological turn to these writings, and the writings of other combat veterans, reveals that those who experience combat first-hand often walk away from those experiences with a changed ontological perspective.
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Peebles, Stacey L. (Stacey Lyn). ""There it is" : writing violence in three modern American combat novels." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/12808.

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Chiao-LingChung and 鍾蕎鈴. "Three Discourses in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried: Traumatic Therapy, Inaudible Words, and Aesthetics." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5erd7h.

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Abstract Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a war novel describing the story as well as the inner psyche of a group of soldiers during and after the Vietnam War. Although this is a war novel, it is neither bloody nor violent. There are no great acts of heroism, senses of torture, or scenes of slaughter. However, while we are drawn in by the author’s story, we find that one of the soldiers, Norman Bowker, is suffering from the pain of being unable to speak about the horrors of war that he has witnessed. Norman drives around the lake twelve times, has no capacity to talk about his war story with others, and commits suicide in the end. Speaking out about war traumatic experiences serves as a kind of traumatic therapy because a traumatic situation can be discharged through language, making it possible to avoid feelings of helplessness in the face of an accumulation of excitation. If Bowker could speak out his traumatic burden, his destiny might have been different. Tim O’Brien, another character who shares the author’s name suffers from the inaudible words we can term gaze-discourses deriving from his conscience and the will of the Other－the superego. He once tried to be a draft-dodger, as he disagreed with the Vietnam War, yet the superego is so powerful that O’Brien eventually joins the war. When reading this war novel, we naturally let the author guide us with his desires, and we freely follow him to feel the scenes and emotions conveyed in every chapter. He takes us to experience the love, friendship, and emotions with his narrative art in this war story. Using a Sentimental War Discourse, the author creates a war novel that is not so heavy that helps alleviative our fears and makes us want to read more of this war novel. Nevertheless, it is not necessarily effective at actually uplifting readers, as this is irrelevant to the moral of the story. After all, it is a war novel about historical trauma. Keywords: traumatic therapy, discharge, gaze-discourses, the Other, the superego, Sentimental War Discourse
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Books on the topic "Things they carried (O'Brien, Tim)"

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Harold, Bloom. Tim O'Brien's The things they carried. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2011.

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Harold, Bloom, ed. Tim O'Brien's The things they carried. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005.

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War in Tim O'Brien's The things they carried. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2011.

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Short stories for students: Presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories. Detroit, Mich: Gale, 2010.

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Short stories for students: Presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories. Detroit, Mich: Gale, 2012.

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SuperSummary. Study Guide: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Independently Published, 2019.

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Bloom, Harold. Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Chelsea House Publications, 2004.

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Wiener, Gary. War in Tim o'Brien's the Things They Carried. Greenhaven Publishing LLC, 2011.

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Gale, Cengage Learning. A Study Guide for Tim O'Brien's Things They Carried. Gale, Study Guides, 2017.

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Hero, Course. Study Guide for Tim o'Brien's the Things They Carried. Independently Published, 2021.

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Chattarji, Subarno. "Imagining Vietnam: Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried." In The United States and the Legacy of the Vietnam War, 72–88. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230591769_5.

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Foust Vinson, Sarah. "Lives in Story: Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried." In Autofiction in English, 145–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89902-2_8.

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Douglas, Ellen. "“The Things They Carried” by Tim O'Brien." In Why I Like This Story, 112–16. Boydell and Brewer Limited, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781787445352.017.

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Douglas, Ellen. "“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien." In Why I Like This Story, 112–16. Boydell & Brewer, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv136bxvn.20.

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