The Things They Carried Passage Analysis

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In The “Things They Carried” by Tim O’brien the change in the point of view from the chapter "The Things They Carried" to the following chapters "Love, Spin, On the Rainy River," affects the tone by helping show the change in his attitude towards these stories. In the first chapter "The Things They Carried" is told in third person to tell us common things carried, and odd things to better understand the characters. It helped the reader know some of the normal experiences in a war “They carried Sterno, safety pins, trip flares, signal flares, spools of wire,.” Then in the next chapter “Love” it is told in first person, and is told after the war. When he switches to first person you can sense the straightforward and curiosity in his conversation

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