Here a power point to overview Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried":

Tim O’Brien

The Things They Carried

Soldiers who fight together become close in many ways.

Lieutenant Jimmy Cross was the leader of the pack.  He was so distracted by the love of his life, Martha.  The problem…he hasn’t told her that he loves her and she hasn’t told him that she loves him.  He is in the middle of a war with thoughts of her and not knowing if he’ll ever be able to tell her.  He keeps her letters neatly folded in his pocket so he can reread them anytime.  She sends him a pebble that he keeps in his mouth.  His love for her is deep and serial. 

Their journeys together are tireless

Walking aimlessly for miles with the weight of all their gear can weigh a person down.  They walk because it’s an order.  Up and down and then again up and down. 

 

Ted Lavender was shot in the head and died instantly.  He was a friend of Jimmy Cross.  He Cried which to the other men thought he was faking.  The lose of Ted Lavender hit Jimmy Cross so hard because he blamed himself.  He was thinking about Martha and that’s why he wasn’t on his game.  In reality there was nothing that Jimmy could have done to help Ted.  Ted was shot in the head from over ten feet away. 

 

The men would wrap Ted’s body in his poncho and wait for the next resupply helicopter to come.  The resupply helicopter came by every two weeks.  They carried various supplies for the soldiers.  Tobacco, hot chow, grenades and gun supplies.

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