Compare And Contrast Soldiers Home And The Things They Carried

Soldiers Emotional Things They Carried

The Power of the intangible things, fear, guilt and love is demonstrated in The Things They Carried and Soldier’s Home. In The Things They Carried two of the themes are about fear and love, In Soldiers Home one of the themes they talk about is guilt. The writers of the two stories apply to the same idea. In Soldiers Home, Ernest Hemingway mentions guilt in the story. In The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien mentions fear and love in the story. Both of the authors had the same general idea to write about Soldiers coming out of war and how they survived but do there ideas connect? In The Things They Carried Jimmy Cross carries a heavy burden of fear. Although every character experiences fear some point

In The Things They Things Carried love is introduced in the beginning of the story where Jimmy Cross talks about Martha. It has a strong and powerful message that Jimmy Cross was in love with Martha. Now I wouldn't necessarily say the same thing about Martha having feelings for Jimmy Cross but I can say most definitely that Jimmy had some strong feeling for Martha that he didn't even know that Lavender had died. “He had loved Martha more than his men, and as a consequence Lavender was now dead, and this was something he would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of war. (O’Brien 16).” Its says itself he had loved Martha more than his men witch is saying a lot. In Soldiers Home the soldiers come home and are greeted by their loved ones when they come back from war except for one because he had come home a little too late according to the community. At one point its love but at the same time its butrale. “Yes. Don’t you love your mother dear boy? No, Krebs said. His mother looked at him across the table. Her eyes were shiny. She started crying. I don’t love anybody, Krebs said. (Hemingway Soldier's Home). The butrale part has kicked in witch made Krebs act that way towards his