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The Things They Carried by https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried Analysis en-us 2021-10-27 12:11:17 UTC 2026-03-18 05:01:28 UTC hello@padlet.com The Things They Carried (Ch.1) andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847974291 2021-10-27 12:14:16 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847974291 Themes andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847974716 -Vietnam War
-Unrequited Love
- Death
-Emotional and physical burden
-Desperation
-Fear
-Hopefulness]]> 2021-10-27 12:14:27 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847974716 Characters andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847974943 2021-10-27 12:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847974943 Quotes andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847975795 2021-10-27 12:14:54 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847975795 Deeper Analysis andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847976273 2021-10-27 12:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847976273 Love (Ch.2) andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847978430 2021-10-27 12:16:01 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847978430 Themes andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847978898 Love
Friendship
War
Sadness

]]> 2021-10-27 12:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847978898 Characters andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847979084 Jimmy Cross - Commander of the Platoon
Tim O'Brien]]> 2021-10-27 12:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847979084 Quotes andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847979270

]]> 2021-10-27 12:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847979270 Deeper Analysis andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847979695 2021-10-27 12:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847979695 Spin (Ch.3) andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847981197 2021-10-27 12:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847981197 Quotes andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847981891 'You'd try to relax. You'd uncurl your fists and let your thoughts go. Well, you'd think. this isn't so bad. And right then you'd hear gunfire behind you and your nuts would fly up into your throat and you'd be squealing squeal pigs. That kind of boredom' --- O'BRIEN
'One leg, for Chrissake. Some poor fucker ran out of ammo.' --- AZAR
'On some occasions the war was like a Ping-Pong ball. You could put fancy spin on it, you could make it dance.' ---O'BRIEN
'The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, repeating itself over and over.' --- O'BRIEN
'I mean, Christ, I'm just a boy.' --- AZAR]]> 2021-10-27 12:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847981891 Deeper Analysis andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847982399 2021-10-27 12:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1847982399 On The Rainy River (Ch.4) andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1860886044 2021-11-02 07:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1860886044 Deeper Analysis andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1860886784 2021-11-02 07:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1860886784 Themes andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1860886943 Courage
Vietnam war
Physical and emotional burdens
Memory
The subjection of the truth to storytelling
Secret
The pointlessness of the war
Fear of shame in the war]]> 2021-11-02 07:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1860886943 Quotes andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1860887043 "This is one story I've never told before. Not to anyone." -page 37

" I was too good for this war. Too smart, too compassionate, too everything." -page 39, 9 lines from the bottom

"... I was drafted for a war I hated."

"Would you do it? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself?" -page 54

"I was a coward. I went to a war." -page 58. last line]]> 2021-11-02 07:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1860887043 Characters andrewgreener https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1860887177 - Tim O'Brien
- Elroy Berdahl
-Tim's parents(mother and father)
- Jimmy Cross]]> 2021-11-02 07:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1860887177 Themes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1861065916 - Sad sarcasm and humor

- Looking at the Brightside /Different Perspective

- Nostalgy

- Harsh reality of war

]]> 2021-11-02 08:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1861065916 Characters https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1868421502 Characters

· Tim O’Brien

· Azar

· Little boy

· Mitchell Sanders

· Norman Bowker

· Henry Dobbins

· Ted Lavender

· Old guy on the mine field

· Rat Kiley

· Jimmy Cross

· Lee Strunk

· Kathleen (daughter)

· Red cross nurse

· Dave Jensen

· Kiowa

]]> 2021-11-04 20:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1868421502 Enemies(Ch.5) https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1881234940 2021-11-10 13:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1881234940 https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1881332336 2021-11-10 13:58:44 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1881332336 https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1881360811 2021-11-10 14:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1881360811 https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1881364510 2021-11-10 14:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1881364510 https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1881367570 2021-11-10 14:09:29 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1881367570 Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong (Ch.9) junda_chen https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976342730 2022-01-05 13:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976342730 How to Tell a True War Story(Ch.7) https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976347064 2022-01-05 13:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976347064 Stockings (Ch.10) david_maynard4 https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976348205 2022-01-05 13:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976348205 Quotes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976348244 "Jensen got into a fistfight. It was about something stupid - a missing jackknife - but even so the fight was vicious."]]> 2022-01-05 13:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976348244 The man I killed (Ch.12) https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976348400 2022-01-05 13:35:48 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976348400 Characters david_maynard4 https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976351422 Two monks from the church
The platoon, mostly O'Brien, Dobbins and Kiowa]]> 2022-01-05 13:37:03 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976351422 Characters https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976352197 -Bob 'Rat' Kiley
-Curt Lemon
-Mitchell Sanders
-Norman Bowker
-Kiowa
-Dave Jensen]]> 2022-01-05 13:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976352197 Themes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976352607 The subjection of truth to storytelling
Physical and emotional burdens
Love
War and its effect on people
Innocence]]> 2022-01-05 13:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976352607 Quotes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976353284 "He waits two months. The dumb cooze never writes back." p.65

"When he died it was almost beautiful" p.67

"It's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen." p.67]]> 2022-01-05 13:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976353284 Themes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976354039 -Truth
-How war dehumanises
-Love and home
-Death and Trauma
-Storytelling]]> 2022-01-05 13:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976354039 Summary https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976354298 Chapter about how two soldiers mistrust each other over a pocket knife. Jensen breaks Strunks nose because he thinks that he stole the phone. Jensen become scared about what will Strunk do to get revenge and he ends up breaking his own nose with a handle of a pistol in order to call it even.]]> 2022-01-05 13:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976354298 Church(Ch.11) david_maynard4 https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976354426 2022-01-05 13:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976354426 The Dentist (Chapter 8) https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976354527 2022-01-05 13:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976354527 Deeper Analysis https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976354611 2022-01-05 13:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976354611 Characters https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976355593 - Mary Anne Bell
- Mark Fossie
- Rat Kiley
- Mitchell Sanders
- Eddie Diamond
- six Greenies]]> 2022-01-05 13:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976355593 Characters https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976358343 Tim O'Brien
Kiowa
Azar
The dead guy?]]> 2022-01-05 13:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976358343 Themes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976358728 Love/Relationships between soldiers and women
Heartbreak
Superstition
Memories before war
Emotional burden]]> 2022-01-05 13:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976358728 Characters https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976358745 - Curt Lemon
- The Dentist]]> 2022-01-05 13:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976358745 Themes junda_chen https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976358896 -Shame
- Hiding your Weaknesses
- Manliness]]> 2022-01-05 13:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976358896 Quotes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976358968 2022-01-05 13:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976358968 Themes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976359668 Death and murder
Guilt
Trauma
War and its impact]]> 2022-01-05 13:40:03 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976359668 Quotes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976360242 "Tim, it's a war." - Kiowa, pg.120

"He knew he would fall dead and wake up in the stories of his village and his people." - pg.124

"He was a slim, dead, almost dainty young man of about twenty." - pg.124]]> 2022-01-05 13:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976360242 Deeper analysis https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976360607 2022-01-05 13:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976360607 Deeper Analysis https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976362585 Link to summary resource]]> 2022-01-05 13:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976362585 Quotes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976362701 'The dentist couldn't find any problem, but Lemon kept on insisting'. p.84

'There was some pain, no doubt, but in the morning Curt Lemon was all smiles.' p.84

'For the rest of the day he stayed off by himself, sitting alone under a tree, just staring down at the field tent.' p.84

]]> 2022-01-05 13:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976362701 Deeper analysis david_maynard4 https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976363865

]]> 2022-01-05 13:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976363865 Characters junda_chen https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976364091 - Henry Dobbins
- Image of his girlfriend]]> 2022-01-05 13:41:52 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976364091 Deeper analysis david_maynard4 https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976364722 2022-01-05 13:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976364722 Deeper Analysis https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976365158

The church and its monks are a huge contradiction to the situation unfolding. The platoon marches through chaos only to set camp in a holy building. Churches are a symbol of order and friendliness, which makes the platoon staying in one morally questionable. But by this logic, the entire presence of american soldiers in Vietnam could be seen as immoral.
The monk's willingness to cooperate and help american soldiers which are invading their country plants doubt into the minds of the men, wondering how many innocent civilians similar to these monks they nave mercilessly bombarded.

O'Brien also details the monks cleaning a machine gun. The situational irony here stems from god-abiding monks helping enable a machine of destruction and death.]]> 2022-01-05 13:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976365158 Chapter 6 - Friends https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976365322 2022-01-05 13:42:22 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976365322 Summary https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976366058 Over time Jensen and Strunk learn to trust each other. They create a pact in order to consolidate their friendship. They agree that if any one of them gets seriously injured during a fire fight that the other one would kill them to get them out their suffering. One day Strunk gets shot and begs Jensen not to kill him. He then died in the helicopter that was transporting him.]]> 2022-01-05 13:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976366058 Quotes junda_chen https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976367334 2022-01-05 13:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976367334 Themes david_maynard4 https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976370435 -Religion
-Peace
-Guilt
-Hospitality
-Treating people right]]> 2022-01-05 13:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976370435 Quotes david_maynard4 https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976371607 "The thing is, I believed in God and all that, but it wasn't the religious part that interested me. Just being nice to people, that's all. Being decent."
-Dobbins, pg.115]]> 2022-01-05 13:44:41 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976371607 Analysis For Chapter 5 and 6 https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976454660 Shows how feelings in war change so quickly and the things that war brings out in people. In chapter 4 it is almost insane that with his own weapon he breaks his nose in order to show to Strunk that they are equal. It also shows how they soldiers try to act tough but when something happens to them they are scared. This is shown in chapter 5 when Strunk gets shot and begs Jensen not to kill him even though they made a pact about if one of them gets hurt they will finish the other off in order to get them out of their suffering.]]> 2022-01-05 14:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976454660 Quotes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976471029 "There was nothing much anybody could do except wait for the dustoff." ]]> 2022-01-05 14:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1976471029 Ambush (Ch.13) https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978483476 2022-01-06 12:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978483476 Characters https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978485679 Kathleen
The platoon
The soldier]]> 2022-01-06 12:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978485679 Characters https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978487042 Lee Jensen
David Strunks]]> 2022-01-06 12:37:55 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978487042 Quotes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978506029 "This is why I keep writing war stories:
He was a short, slender young man of about twenty." - pg.125

"I did not hate the young man; I did not see him as the enemy; I did not ponder issues of morality or politics or military duty." - pg.126

"I had already thrown the grenade before telling myself to throw it." - pg.127]]> 2022-01-06 12:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978506029 Themes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978508772 Morality
Trauma
Guilt
Coming to term with the past]]> 2022-01-06 12:50:13 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978508772 Themes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978516213 -Morality
-Shame and Guilt
-Anger and Agression]]> 2022-01-06 12:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978516213 Themes https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978525340 -Friendship
-Morality and Death
-Pain
-Trust]]> 2022-01-06 12:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978525340 Deeper analysis https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978553898 2022-01-06 13:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1978553898 Extra visual + analysis annnahrebickova https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1980297330 2022-01-07 09:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/andrewgreener/TheThingsTheyCarried/wish/1980297330