Soldiers in The Things They Carried

Throughout the novel, OBrien tries to find someone to goddam for the many deaths that occurred in the war. For all(prenominal) pass that dies, surviving characters, specially Jimmy Cross, struggle in finding a individual or things responsible for the deaths of their sonny soldiers. He later explains that anyone or everyone can be at sentence as he says You could fault the war...You could blame the enemy...You could blame whole nations...You could blame God...In the theater, though, the consequences were immediate.(p.177). OBrien whitethorn endure scripted the chapter In the dramatic arts, in order to represent his ingest inner struggle (as salutary as surviving veterans deaths) and to enter the weight of all the blame and ravish that he carries with him. He does this in describing the soldiers looking for Kiowas remains in the field filled with fecal matter. This chapter is his focal point of sex act his readers that death is a tragedy that can motley a person on t he preciselyton like it changed him, Azar and the other soldiers in the novel (Sparknotes)\nIn the antecedent chapter Notes OBrien explains that By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You sever it from yourself(158). He acknowledges and confirms that this story is his manner of coping with his own trauma. As result he makes up a character representing himself as Tim and tries to separate this character from himself, so he then refers to him as new-made soldier (p.170) in chapter seventeen. In In the Field he repeats the young soldiers emotional disturbance, The young soldier was trying rugged not to cry. He, too, blamed himself. (p.170). These feelings of shame and sorrow are a reflection of his own guilt. (Andrews CIS well-lighted E-Notebook)\nIn the novel OBrien uses the soldiers searching for Kiowas remains in the field as a way to image his own mind fickle around into his past as a soldier. He may be remembering propagation when he believed he could ha ve saved someone but didn...