读后感：The Things They Carried 《士兵的重负》
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Zhang, xxx
18 Nov 2010
English II
Mrs. xxx
The Hump of Life
War stories, they always keep people feeling
bad and associate violence and cold-blood, the
plot filled full of fighting and bloodshed. So
it is fortunate to read this book, The Things They
Carried, it is a story records about the
experience of the narrator O'Brien during the
Vietnam
War, and the impact on privates
including himself from war. The memories they got
from the
war and how these things affected
them and their life after the war.
O'Brien
knits facts and stories throughout the book to
give readers what is really likes fight
in
Vietnam, the sense of resistance in trek in the
war. O'Brien 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
lieutenant's compass and maps, medic's morphine
and plasma,
tents and explosives use for
mountain field; and things carried individuals.
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
things that weighted
dozens of pounds while walking on the land of
Vietnam, under his writing,
everything they
carried, are their humps, and the aim is to sketch
each
(O'Brien 4). Lavender carries drugs,
because he was scared of war, his dopes can keep
him free
from reality; the diary of Bowker,
New Testament of Kiowa, comic books of Rat Kiley,
is their
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pray in the war;
the pantyhose Dobbins wrapping around his neck, is
his demand of life.
pantyhose, he said, had
the properties of a good-luck charm
O'Brien
gave soldiers various characters through the
description of their humps, but under
the
baptism of Vietnamese flying dusts, their
characteristic be destroyed, people become the
moving items without feeling. In the chapter
of In The Field, people who joined in the war,
they
are entirely trapped in the mud. make
out... The men into
identical copies of a
single soldier,... As interchangeable units of
command(O'Brien 163).
People lost their
emotions in the war, keep them look like groups of
dead.
People don't know they need in the war,
and they became confused with the war they were
fighting for, including the narrator O'Brien,
He thought they were fighting for a wrong war
in wrong place with a wrong time, he writes
things he doubted, it a civil war? A war of
national liberation or simple
aggression?
(O'Brien 40). People hate war, and
more about no reason or unknown reason war. In the
movie
Good Morning, Vietnam, The Cronauer
repeats again and again come here to save
you
(Levinson 1987). Will Vietnamese welcome a
man who is from thousands of miles away and
fighting on their land? They do not think like
that,
kill our people...You are the
enemy(Levinson 1987). Always they just happen,
and need to
solve it. obvious that no one
really wants war, but sometimes that's just what
happens
(Dalton). Only thing can do is to find
a way to end it, or continue.
War is always
cruel, it lower the feelings of people, both the
influence from the war is
enormous. Usually
people thought they can get out after the war, but
actually, they cannot. Even
for Norman Bowker,
people who got seven medals from the war, he
survived in the war, but he
cannot forget the
memories he got from the war, he firmly considers
that a part of himself was
already left in the
war with Kiowa, and another part of him is dying
in his home town after the
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war, he cannot find the meaning of life. In
the letter he sent to the writer, he said:no
place to go...It's almost like I got killed
over in Nam...The night when Kiowa got wasted, I
sort
of sank down the sewage with him
to
the author. years later hanged himself in the
locker room of a
YMCA in his hometown in
central Iowa(O'Brien 154). Eventually he cannot
get rid of his
memories, cannot forget his
emotions.
marching in the sky behind her;
The skulls on the cross on the sticks go all the
way around in the
sky(Dailey 2010). After the
army, he returned and became a artist,
artist.
I become that artist that I wanted to be. I come
to California. The rest is history
2010). In
the painting, he records his own feeling and
review of the war. In the fiction, O'Brien
writes stories as a narrator and the O'Brien
of himself to describe the things in his
experiences.
He thought
to peace
vortex
of memory. There are a lot of stories that
happened on him, which is he does not want to
talk about. The memories he humped keep him
fall in pain and embarrassment, remind him the
war years ago. In the chapter of The Man I
Killed, he write that he killed a man, and
describes
again and again of details of that
men lying on the ground, everything he writes
represent these
are all truth, but, in the
later chapter, when his daughter Kathleen asks if
her father ever killed
anyone, he answered
course not(O'Brien 131), and he also said years
ago I
watched a man die on a trail near the
village of My Khe. I did not kill him. But I was
was
present,... My presence was guilt
enough
half-truth, there are too many things
people humped from the war, a lot of things only
they can
understand, to represent things in
the war is painful, and other people can never
understand these,
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never.
Kathleen tells me it's an obsession, that
I should write about a little who finds a million
dollars
and spends it all on a Shetland Pony.
In a way, I guess, she's right: I should forget
it, but the
thing about remembering is that
you don't forget. You take your material where you
find it,
which is in your life, at the
intersection of past and present
Seems almost
people in the war productions, ultimate would
emerge the situation under
O'Brien's writing:
Because of the lonely, fear, the negative emotions
formed by the war, because
of the astonish,
remorse, sorrow gave by died comrade, the war last
became the feeling that is
hard to erase in
the life.
these veterans were and are
suffering from Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder(Vietnam War
Veterans).
In On the
Rainy River, O'Brien describes
The words said
by the Vietnam boy
justice or not, the war is
hell, kill, be killed, and look at their comrades
fall into mud.
But those are not at all, under
O'Brien' writing, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, he
carried the
letters and pictures from a girl
named Martha, the girl he loved.
day's 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
anything, he wanted Martha to love
him as he loved her, but the letters were most
chatty, elusive
on the matter of
love.
story is out of the environment of the
war. The pebble in Jimmy received letter from
Martha that
she had found on the Jersey
shoreline. Because was this separate-but-together
quality, she
wrote.
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his
mouth, turning it with his tongue, tasting sea
salt and moisture.(O'Brien 8). He tries to
forces himself put his attention on the war,
but he just can make some phantom in daylight,
finally make the bad result on his column. He
had burned the letters of Martha, but cannot burn
from his brain, the intangible things cannot
burn by some simple gestures. Like grief, terror,
love,
longing,memories, fears, and desires,
they are important, and cannot be discarded.
When tear rolled down Tuan's face, and he
said:
1987). As a Community-Vietnamese, he
saved Cronauer from the danger region they
captured.
Why Tuan be friend with him, even he
is already known they are in the adverse side? May
be
from the beginning, from the time Cronauer
strike for Tuan from that Bar, keep Tuan believes
in
him, even in the final, they broke up their
friendship, this memory, would be treasure in
their
mind.
now in smoke, and the
girl danced with her eyes half closed, her feet
bare.
girl uses her feet to dance the sacred
dance. She cannot bring back her family, her
village, and
memory. When the song What A
Wonderful World voice sounded I see trees of
green, red
roses too, I watch them bloom for
me and you... I see skies of blue, clouds of
white, bright
blessed day, dark scared
nights...what a wonderful world(Levison 1987).
The song filled
beauty and relax, and the
background, smoke is on the wind, the flames lit
up the sky, they mix
together, give people the
sorrow feeling, like the sun hidden after clouds
and ashes, spread light
emotion of sad.
The war story is not only describes about the
war, is more about the things they carried on
their body. What can never forget is the
panic, the death, the emotions, the memories,
those
carried in the life. At last, a war
story is about sunlight, it's about love and
memory, about sorrow,
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it
about sisters who never write back and people who
never listen, about the girls who dancing
with
her last memory, a song that expressing the good
of life.
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