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"The Things They Carried" means everything the soldiers carried as they marched through Vietnam.

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Emotional to clinical to manipulative to epic, his tone in regards to storytelling and the truth is constant

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While we feel betrayed when we realize that Rat and Kiowa and Mitchell Sanders are all fictional creations, O'Brien's trying to tell us that even though they're made up, there's a lot of truth to their characters.

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What was the average age of the soldiers in the Vietnam?

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What was the average age of the soldiers in the Vietnam?

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19 through 23

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He uses realism to try to express the weirdo nature of life in Vietnam during the war. One example is when O'Brien tells the  short true war story

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The author uses nonlinear narrative and ambiguous relationshio

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Kiowa is one of the most moral characters in the story and ends up drowning and symbolizes American decency

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Did cross ever forgive him self for the death of lavender?

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Did cross ever forgive him self for the death of lavender?

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No, he still has not got over the fact the he couldve saved lavender.

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TIm o brien is the author of TTTC. He sometimes adds his life in the story.

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Tim o Brien uses a lot of physical and emotional burdens on the solders.