Tina Chen talks about how Tim O'Brien isn't just telling stories about war. How the The Things They Carried has several short stories all with underlying meanings and metonymic symbolism, an example includes how Vietnam is alive, as a country. Tina goes on to declare that Tim feels displaced no matter what he chooses, and how Vietnam was as much a home to him as Minnesota was before the war. Talking about the dead as though they are still alive, helps him cope with the realities he has to face. As Tim is writing these truths that are not true, telling stories to get stuff of his chest so he can live again, Tina realizes there is a them of exile in his stories. All the death, all the decisions he faces alone, fighting a war that was never his own, she cites the meaning of displacement from other sources, and says Tim has wrote about displacement and exile.
This article will help me in my essay, show how Vietnam was a hardship on soldiers. She uses multiple resources, I can pull from, to back up her arguments. The fact that she covers almost all the stories and dissects each one of them, will help me choose from several of Tim's writings. The article is long and analyzes other aspects as she makes her points, and I can pull several things like displacement and coping mechanisms of soldiers from this article.
Chen's Bio
No comments:
Post a Comment