Document Type
Life and Death Essay
Publication Date
10-20-2011
Excerpt
Death is an inevitable part of human life; all of us will eventually experience it. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a work of fiction about an American platoon during the Vietnam War, but throughout the book, the narrator keeps insisting that the book is real, only to contradict himself after a few pages. O’Brien does not do that because he is just an eccentric writer, but he is trying to make us believe these fictional characters’ deaths and hardships are real, in order to convey a message about how there is beauty in death and how focusing on it could help us cope with our grief.
Recommended Citation
Albalooshi, Mohammad, "The Beauty of Death (2011)" (2011). The Valpo Core Reader. 2.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/2
Comments
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