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The Things They Carried

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Becca Emge Dr. Tjardes English 11 The Things They Carried 1. Tim O'Brien feels he is a coward for going to the Vietnam War because he might be confused about what courage is, as is every other man that went to the Vietnam War. Once he is out of the war, he realizes that the only reason he went into the Vietnam War was to prove to himself and others that he wasn't a coward, making him a coward for doing that. 2. The way to tell the difference between a true story and a lie is when the story changes and goes back and fourth between one thing then changes to the other. Tim O'Brien includes the section of how to tell a true war story because he wants you to look for the truths and be able to separate reality from a lie. 3. O'Brien explains that story-truth is sometimes truer than happening-truth because...

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