The Things They Carried…END OF BOOK!!!
Yes!! We have officially finished the book, and it feels good to have gotten through the Vietnam war within a 3 week period! The last three chapeters I found to be very thrilling, and yet more stories about O’Brien’s war experiences. He starts the first chapter explaing a time where he got shot in the leg and one of the doctors was unable to cure him of his shock, thus sending him on a very painful experience. However, It was visible that O’Brien wanted revenge on this doctor for not fully curing his wound. I find it weird that even at war, these soldiers can act normal and funny when in such a hostile situation. I guess it reminds them of home, and if there going to die, why not die doing something they love to do. But O’Brien takes revenge on the doctor by scaring him and they call it an even trade.
The last chapter in the book, which I’ve found to be the most important, describes the death of the Authors friend, Linda. Tim claims to have fallen in love with Linda in the fouth grade, but she had cancer, and died from a brain tumor at a very young age. The death of Linda signifies O’Brien’s thoughts toward life and the envolvement of death. In the last passage of the story… he quotes
“Her name doesn’t matter. She was nine years old. I loved her and then she died. And yet right here, in the spell of memory and imagination, I can see her as if through ice, as if I’m gazing into some other world, a place where there are no brain tumors and no funeral homes, where there are no bodies at all.”
Deep. I’ll let the quote speak for itself.