The Vietnam War by Michaela Pierre https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk What are the possible meanings of the title? en-us 2019-11-14 03:41:02 UTC 2019-11-14 05:53:22 UTC hello@padlet.com The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411015998 Things - literally would mean the objects they held
Things they carried - metaphorically meaning the burdens or the emotional weight they carry ]]> 2019-11-14 05:43:59 UTC https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411015998 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016009 The 'things' could be literal:
Ammunition, Diaries, Food, Locket (with photo maybe)
It could also be metaphorical:
Emotions (Fear, Love, Homesickness) Responsibilities]]> 2019-11-14 05:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016009 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016139 Literal: Actual artillery carried by soldier, wound
Figurative: emotions, love, expectations, fear, memories, burden, emotional harm

]]> 2019-11-14 05:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016139 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016289 carry connotes burden/weight. 
--> multiple things weighing a person down

metaphorically: 
-reputation & responsibility as a soldier
- memories, guilt and trauma of war and killing others 
- promises as a sibling/father
physically:
- corpses, blood stains, wounded friends,

]]> 2019-11-14 05:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016289 The things they carried https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016482 Reference to life as a 'thing', how little a life means in a war. 
The reference to soldiers collectively as 'they' de-individualizes ]]> 2019-11-14 05:47:44 UTC https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016482 The Things They Carried https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016606 Literal:
The objects or the weapons that the soldiers physically carried
Metaphorical:
Responsibility, burdens, attachments, fear, ]]> 2019-11-14 05:48:40 UTC https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016606 The Things They carried: https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016671 Traumas of war
Longing for loved ones
Homesickness
Scars on their hearts

]]> 2019-11-14 05:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016671 The Things They Carried: https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016699 Fear and hatred of war
Emotional traumas  ]]> 2019-11-14 05:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/michaela_pierre/l6a9uvi7tsdk/wish/411016699