In the book "things they carried" the other "things" that O'brien talks about is all the soldiers future, legacys, and burdens that they are carrying. Jimmy Cross carries his burden of his possible future girlfriend when he gets back and only has a picture of her to meditate on. He really wants to tie her to a bed and touch her knee, weird.
The character i choose to talk about is Ted Lavendaer becasue he is talked about alot. For one he died early in the book and everyone describes how he died. He tranquilized himself, went for a piss, and then got shot. "fell like a sack of bricks"they say.
They all talk about Vietnam and how all these things relate to the war, both politicaly and personally. They go behind the scenes and describe in depth about the war. all the stories are different and they really are just "stories".
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