The Things They Carried: A Theoretical Analysis

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In a war, there are the victims and the victimizers; it is a fight or flight situation, kill or be killed. After his experiences in Vietnam, Tim O’Brien published his book The Things They Carried in 1990, a riveting, remorseful work of fiction that illustrated the horrors of war. In 2012, Chris Kyle published his novel American Sniper after his tour of duty in Iraq, a dedicated, aggressive memoir that depicts the war as a necessary evil. While The Things They Carried uses symbolism and point of view to describe the feelings of the soldiers fighting a war they hate, an excerpt from American Sniper uses synecdoche and foreshadowing to illustrate how a soldier will stop at nothing to ensure his country is safe. While The Things They Carried uses