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Martha- page 17
"In part, he was grieving for Ted Lavender, but mostly it was for Martha, and for himself, because she belonged to another world, which was not quite real, and because she was a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey, a poet and a virgin and uninvolved, and because he realized she did not love him and never would. "
Martha is a symbol to all the men with women or anyone back home, they are all far away and uninvolved no matter what. No one is not involved how they need them to be, the way they can never be.

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Freedom bird- Page 22
"And they dreamed of freedom birds." The "freedom bird" represents the helicopters that take back injured soldiers and to them when that helicopter comes it is their freedom, they will finally be able to leave the war.

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War stories- 76
"You can tell a true war story by the way it never seems to end. Not then, not ever."
The stories are not just stories or memories, they are something that replays and stays with you forever, the war stays with you forever, that is why none of the stories are true because they never stopped.

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Pantyhose- page 118
"No sweat," he said. "The magic doesn't go away." Dobbins talks about his "lucky" pair of pantyhose that he had gotten from his now ex girlfriend. When talking about how the "magic doesn't go away" he doesn't mean literally, the magic from the pantyhose symbolizes something familiar and comforting. No matter what they will always make him better.

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Tim O'Brien - 59
"All those eyes on me-the town, the whole universe- and I couldn't risk the embarrassment. It was as if there were and audience to my life, that swirl of faces along the river, and in my head I could hear people screaming at me." Tim O'Brien is weak minded, even though he desperately did not want to fight this war and did not believe in it, he wanted to run away from it but he couldn't leave because of what people might think of him for it.

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Chu Lai- 90-99
"She stopped wearing jewelry, cut her hair short and wrapped it in a dark green bandanna." Because Mary Anne was now technically a part of the war she changed completely, now not a shy inexperience girl she was now a soldier.

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Mountains 72-73
"So what happens is, these guys get themselves deep in the bush, all camouflaged up, and they lie down and wait and that's all they do, nothing else, they lie there for seven straight days and just listen." Laying there being paranoid and just listening in the high up mountains these soldiers become crazy swearing they hear classical music playing in the high up mountains in Vietnam.

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The muck- 171
"No sense of direction, though, and the field seemed to suck him under, and everything was black and wet and swirling, and he couldn't get his bearings, and then another round hit nearby, and for a dew moments all he could do was hold his breath and duck down beneath the water." The muck in this story is a huge part to every character, it kills Kiowa, and makes 3 of the other soldiers blame themselves for his death and then the rest are angry and sad that this happened at all, being stuck in the muck.

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Church- 123
"You're right," he said. "All you can do is be nice. Treat them decent, you know?" After spending a couple days in a church with Monks Dobbins decides after the war he wants to become a minister so he can spread the good around.

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The dead man- page 124-130
"He lay with one leg bent beneath him, his jaw in his throat, his face neither expressive or inexpressive. One eye was shut. The other was a star shaped hole." Throughout this chapter O'Brien constantly re says this phrase about the dead man. Because of this you feel his shock over this dead man, a man he killed. But his partner understands showing that every soldier goes through the pure shock of seeing the person you killed and it is ingrained in your brain forever.

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Stories- 240
"I'm skimming across the surface, my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story." This is a theme throughout the whole book but in the end you feel a keen sense of determination to keep stories all of them alive to keep that person alive.

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The things they carried-page 2-20
Throughout these pages O'Brien scatters in facts of how heavy each thing they have to carry is. Because he does this you get the sense of perseverance from the soldiers, but you also realize not only do they carry these tools and weapons they carry the weight of the war.

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Seven mile around the lake- page 139-146
O'Brien tells the story of Norman Bowker and how after he got home from the war he drove around silently around a lake and thought about war stories and the one that scars him the most. Because Bowker continuously drives around this lake you feel his hopelessness, even with the war over he goes around and around in his head with the memories how he goes around and around the lake.

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Rat Kiley- 79
"He shot randomly, almost casually, quick little spurts in the belly and butt. Then he reloaded, squatted down, and shot it in the left front knee." Rat Kiley is extremely aggressive after his best friend is killed and does not know how to deal with it therefore acting out in an very aggressive manner.

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Mary Anne-99
"The bubbliness was gone. The nervous giggling, too. When she laughed now, which was rare, it was only when something struck her as truly funny. Her voice seemed to recognize itself at a lower pitch." Mary Anne has become assertive here, being in the war has changed her, made her less soft and fearful.

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Norman Bowker-156
"God, this is starting to sound like some jerkoff vet crying in his beer. Sorry about that. I'm no basket case-not even any bad dreams. And I don't feel like anybody mistreats me or anything, except sometimes people act too nice, too polite, like they're afraid they might ask me the wrong question me...But I shouldn't bitch."
Norman Bowker is Pragmatic, he feels he has made it through the war alive and that he doesn't want people to think he wants anything from them. He wants to be normal but knows people will not treat him the same and he will never feel the same now.