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The Things They Carried: What's "Real"?

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August 7, 2015

 

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People are preserved as they were in the past. O'Brien preserves himself as a child along with Linda, writing that "when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story" (246). This represents a desire to return to the innocence of childhood: a time before war and death, loss and grief...
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This represents a desire to return to the innocence of childhood: a time before war and death, loss and grief. O'Brien acknowledges the connection to childhood when he says "I'm forty-three years old, and a writer now, still dreaming Linda alive in exactly the same way" (245). Through his writing, he is able to keep Linda?along with himself?alive endlessly, thus negating death...
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