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    Study Guide: The Things They Carried (A BookCaps Study Guide)
    Study Guide: The Things They Carried (A BookCaps Study Guide)
    Study Guide: The Things They Carried (A BookCaps Study Guide)
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    Study Guide: The Things They Carried (A BookCaps Study Guide)

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    The perfect companion to Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried," this study guide contains a chapter by chapter analysis of the book, a summary of the plot, and a guide to major characters and themes.

    BookCap Study Guides do not contain text from the actual book, and are not meant to be purchased as alternatives to reading the book.

    We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

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    PublisherBookCaps
    Release dateDec 8, 2011
    ISBN9781465938503
    Study Guide: The Things They Carried (A BookCaps Study Guide)
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    We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.Visit www.bookcaps.com to see more of our books, or contact us with any questions.

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      Study Guide - BookCaps

      Tim O’Brien’s

      The Things They Carried

      By BookCaps Study Guides

      © 2011 by Golgotha Press, Inc.

      Published at SmashWords

      www.bookcaps.com

      Historical Context

      Tim O’Brien was born in 1946 in Minnesota and went on to become a very serious student. In his college years, Tim spend a lot of time protesting the Vietnam War while majoring in political science, though he did always have an interest in writing. Upon graduation from college, and just before he would begin his PhD at Harvard, O’Brien was drafted for the Vietnam war; though he did consider going to Canada to avoid the draft, he eventually decided to attend basic training.

      After he was discharged O’Brien wrote and published many works, most of which revolved around his time in the service and none more popular than The Things They Carried which was not published until 1990 but was comprised of stories he had written over the years since the war. O’Brien was awarded the National Book Award for Going After Cacciato in 1979 and from that point on he was known as a brilliant writer who spoke of the war with honesty and true emotion.

      The Things They Carried is a work of fiction though it includes many details from O’Brien’s personal experiences in the war, not to mention that the main character is named Tim O’Brien, though there are a few major differences between the writer and the character. He put a tremendous amount of heart and soul into the novel and even dedicated it to the characters in the book as he obviously felt a very personal connection with them. It is thought that the reason O’Brien only writes about war is not only because he knows it so well but perhaps because he cannot escape the painful memories of that time.

      O’Brien was in the running for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Things They Carried, and it solidified his status as a masterful writer.

      Plot

      The Things They Carried is a collection of stories from the Vietnam War centering around the main character, Tim O’Brien and some of his fellow soldiers in the Alpha Company. The story tells of the soldiers and the things they carried to and throughout the war, be they physical possessions such as a book of matches or emotions such as guilt and fear.

      Tim tells many of the stories from his perspective twenty years

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