Matt Clark Things they carried Tim O Brian’s The Things They Carried, is about the Vietnam War. It talks about the soldiers and their experiences and emotions that are brought from the war. O Brian’s makes several statements about war through these dynamic characters. O Brian shows the violent nature of soldiers under the pressure of war. He makes an effective antiwar statement, and he comments on the reversal of a social deviation …showed first 75 words of 841 total…

…showed last 75 words of 841 total…war revolved. The antiwar statement is enhanced by O’Brian’s use of connotative and informal diction to describe the war, its belligerent advocates and its participants. The connotation in the adjective American in describing the war seems as though O’Brian believes the Americans are making the war reduce around themselves, instead of the Vietnamese. While also criticizing Americans, he manages to once again question the necessity of U.S. involvement in the war.