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A war story is often a recounting of a horrible personal experience, especially one involving fighting, violence, danger and even bloodshed. However, The Things They Carried is a story that records the experience of the narrator OBrien during the Vietnam War, and the impact on individuals including himself from war. The memories they got from the war and how these things affected them and their life after the war. OBrien named the book of The Things They Carried, and use the first chapter to describe everything they needed. This is a long list consist of necessities and near-necessities, such as C-rations, water, identify card; things which decided by their own duty, like lieutenants compass and maps, medics morphine and plasma, tents and explosives use for mountain field; and things carried individuals. Ted Lavender carried six or seven ounces of premium dope... Norman Bowker carried a diary. Rat Kiley carried comic books. Kiowa, a devout Baptist, carried an illustrated New Testament”. These things may seem funny to most of us. Think about it, when an earthquake comes, we carry money, jewelries, real estate certifications and many other precious things. But all they carried were ridiculous. But those are not at all, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, he carried the letters and pictures from a girl named Martha, the girl he loved. In the late afternoon, after a days march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.” OBrien describes a plot that looks like the story is out of the environment of the war. Jimmy tries to force him to put his attention on the war that he had burned the letters of Martha, but cannot burn from his brain. OBrien gave soldiers various characters through the description of what they carried, but on the battlefield, their characteristic be destroyed, people become the moving items without feeling. People lost their emotio