Another soldier comments that he should press hard to bandage him which shows the insensitivity of the soldiers when they are wounded on the battlefield. His friend Kiley, another soldier, is bandaging him. ‘Easy does it,’ he told me, ‘just a side wound, no problem unless you’re pregnant.’ He ripped off the compress, applied a fresh one, and told me to clamp it in place with my fingers. These lines signify that people always carry misconception about other culture or people if they look from a certain distance. However, Henry who probably understood people more replies that she just likes dance. Azar asks another soldier, Henry Dobbins if the girl is dancing some ritual dance. Azar, a soldier, speaks these lines to tell about the dancing girl. ‘Probably some weird ritual,’ Azar said, but Henry Dobbins looked back and said no, the girl just liked to dance.” “A while later, when we moved out of the hamlet, she was still dancing. These lines are significant as they show how a civilian will have to display the courage of a soldier in the time of need and fight with them. However, with time, she too became fearless and a killing machine like the soldiers with whom she lived. She became part of their company and stayed with them, but still, as a civilian. Mary Anne Bell is a medic and girlfriend of a soldier, Mark, who accompanies him to Vietnam. These lines are from ‘Sweetheart of the Tra Bong’. She was ready for the kill.” Sweetheart of the Tra Bong She was wearing her culottes, her pink sweater, and a necklace of human tongues. These lines show the conflict soldiers go through on the battlefield when they are forced to kill another human being. His imagination about his body, his ability, and his body parts show that O’ Brien thinks him a human being first and Vietnamese second. The writer is stuck with the memory and trauma of killing a soldier. It describes the man that Tim O’ Brien has killed with his hand grenade. These lines are from The Man I Killed segment. His chest was sunken and poorly muscled - a scholar, maybe. He had bony legs, a narrow waist, long shapely fingers. “He lay face-up in the center of the trail, a slim, dead, almost dainty young man. Therefore, he has discussed the importance of stories which remains forever and are passed down to future generations. They also help the characters to escape the bitter realities of war. He is stating the importance of telling and writing stories as they stay when memory fades. Here the author O’Brien is trying to show how stories make up the past and the future of the characters. These lines are borrowed from the third story, Spin. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. “Stories are for joining the past to the future. Therefore, he thinks that it would not be possible for him to escape.
The speaker is trying to board a boat but cannot as the weight of the responsibility weighs heavily on his conscience. The main character states that he has decided to escape from the responsibility of going to the war and go to Canada. I gripped the edge of the boat and leaned forward and thought, Now.” These lines reveal Jimmy’s unrequited love for Martha. He tried to get close, but she hesitated.
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He recalls the time they spent together and watched a movie when Martha was wearing a tweed skirt. Jimmy Cross remembers his beloved Martha. These lines are taken from the first story with the same title “The Things They Carried.” Lt. “A dark theater, he remembered, and the movie was Bonnie and Clyde, and Martha wore a tweed skirt, and during the final scene, when he touched her knee, she turned and looked at him in a sad, sober way that made him pull his hand back…”
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