Norman Bowker goes to find where the groan was but when he finds Kiowa, he knows where the groan came from. As the story slowly progresses it comes to Norman Bowker as a symbol of fear and doubt, as he was driving around the lake he was thinking about the things going on around him and the war.Īfter he was done talking to a drive-thru lady about what he needs to do with his life, it goes to his Vietnam flashbacks, in one of his flashbacks he was dodging mortar rounds, he hears a groan in the distance. The things they carry is a book full of symbolism of what one was and will always stay the same. ![]() Mariann Belle was a girl who had a regular girl life with a boyfriend, but until she found out who she truly was as a wildlife person, when she was forced to leave she refused to move and ran away with the greenies (a tribe of jungle people), as she was last seen with a necklace of tongues and left her boyfriend heartbroken. The things they carried is also a symbol of being free as represented by the “Sweetheart of the song tra bong”. When Rat Kylie was on the edge, instead of killing himself as we all thought, he instead shot himself in the foot to escape the war but as his duties were served he got gifts from his friends (comics) to keep him entertained. Everyone in the things they carried is a symbol of courage and cowardice like Rat Kiley is a sign of cowardice and courage. “His other eye was a star-shaped hole” kept appearing throughout the chapter these words represented fear in Jimmy Cross as he will never forgive himself for killing the man he didn’t mean to intentionally kill. But as all this happened Jimmy Cross killed a man with a grenade describing him as a Asian man who just wanted to live a regular life and got involved with the war for no reason. Even though the monks enjoyed them being there Kiowa didn’t feel proud of himself for going against his religion. ![]() In the book Kiowa shows courage in his religion by when they walked by a pagoda Kiowa stood up by telling the platoon of men that “You don’t mess with churches” but regardless the platoon of men went in there anyway to make a base but on Kiowas religion, he didn’t feel happy so he asked to move out of there regarding that it offends him and he is ashamed of what he was doing. In the book The Things They Carry it talks about the Vietnam war and a platoon of people scrounging around for shelter from the war and they talk about their experiences from trenches to Church they have the guts to survive and kill and watch the horrors of war. The Novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien writes on Cowardice and courage Through the story by the characters Norman Bowker, Jimmy Cross, and Kiowa. The Things they carried is a book about a platoon of people who are trying to survive the Vietnam war with The Things They Carry in their hearts and there backs.
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