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The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division .
- Tim O'Brien
- 1990
28. März 1990 · The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.
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26. Mai 2021 · Comprising 22 pieces—some little more than vignettes, others more “traditional” stories—the collection details the experiences of the soldier Tim O’Brien, who returns to his native Minnesota after a tour of duty in Vietnam.
William Timothy O’Brien (* 1. Oktober 1946 in Austin, Minnesota) ist ein US-amerikanischer Autor, der unter dem Kurznamen Tim O’Brien besonders über seine Erlebnisse im Vietnamkrieg und den Einfluss, den der Krieg auf die kämpfenden amerikanischen Soldaten hatte, schreibt.
Tim O’Brien is both the narrator and protagonist of The Things They Carried. The work recounts his personal experience in the Vietnam War and allows him to comment on the war.
By Tim O’Brien The Things They Carried First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack. In the late afternoon, after a
25. Feb. 2015 · Capo 4 Intro G - D - G - C - G - D - G G D I've been in this prison twenty years or more D G I shot my woman with a 44 G C I'll be right here till my dyin day C G D G I got 99 years and one.
