By studying literature, people are able to interpret text to level of depth which allows for a text to be comprehended in a multitude of ways. The study of literature can occur through word choice, writing style, and many offer dynamics within.
Studying The Things They Carried provides presentation into the life of war and the complex challenges that people face.
2. How are we affected by literary texts in various ways? How are we impacted by TTTC?
Certain literary texts draw on particular emotions of people.
The Things They Carried can be compared to a roller coaster. The book as a whole contains vignettes that allow a reader to feel one emotion and think of certain in a particular way. The next to sentences read, the reader is contradicting how they think, examining the powerful ideas that Tim O'Brien presents and how they feel regarding the information presented.

3. In what ways is meaning constructed, negotiated, expressed and interpreted in TTTC?
Tim O'Brien creates meaning everywhere within the book. Everything he writes is meant to to have readers interpreting an expressed idea which O'Brien negotiated through a carefully thought out process in constructing his use of dictional expression.
4. How does the structure of style of TTTC affect its meaning?
The book organizes the order of the vignettes to not go in chronological order. Entailing that, Tim O'Brien is presenting the idea that war is just he chooses to present the vignettes. Confused, but somehow with flow. War can turn peoples emotions into an atomic bomb, impactful and deadly.

The change in structure allows the author to provide a different understanding of the story. By showing different perspectives of the characters, the readers can see information which they are not necessarily provided within a different structure. More specifically, thought, they judgement and commentary of a character. 

Time and Space

Understanding the cultural context may explain an action or thought which the reader does not necessarily understand. It provides reasoning to to social dynamics which may be different from the reader's society norm.

There is a similarity in what is valued in their society that are valued in the American society that are similar. The way the response that the Columbian culture handled situations which our society would not. Plus, the emphasis on sexuality on for women is more intense then in our society. Along, with the influence of colonialism which caused this tension between the native culture and Christianity and how people responded based on their beliefs and religion.