The End

So I just finished reading the book, and I have to admitt that I actually did like "The Things They Carried". I wouldn't really consider this a war book, but an inside view of how the war was. Each little story in this collection of fiction was able to grab my attention by the little details that were present. As I mentioned in my previous post, my favorite story from the book was "how to tell a true war story". Now "the lives of the dead" is another favorite. I absolutely love how O'Brien is trying to show that even though the dead are dead, they are still alive. I think O'Brien was trying to show that the everyone tries to keep the ones they love alive by keeping them in their stories, or even making up stories with them. I also think that these stories of the dead are part f the things that the soliders carried with them.