http://blogs.cofc.edu/friendsofthelibrary Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.cofc.edu/friendsofthelibrary/2009/10/30/the-things-they-carried/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Leigh Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:01:50 +0000 http://blogs.cofc.edu/friendsofthelibrary/?p=738#comment-6 I liked that there was ambiguities between truth and fiction. I have to admit that at first, it was a little confusing. It took me a while to figure out who was narrating. But I think it illustrated what might have been O’Brien’s mission – to show the hardships of war and the memories of lost friends and fellow soldiers. It also illustrates the difficulty in distinguishing between what’s real and what’s imagined, a confusion that many soldiers experience after war.

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