Blog of the week- week 1

This book really changed what I thought about the Vietnam War. Going into reading this book I had almost no knowledge of Vietnam except for what I had learned in history class. So after getting past the very graphic way of how he describes things I realized that even though this book was fiction it seems so real. This really made me try and better understand this war better. I’ve seen very few movies on Vietnam and read no books till now about it but I think The Things They Carried is such a good way to “see” the war though the eyes of a soldier. The Things They Carried takes away some common themes from movies, like Two Days in October like all the emotion soldiers felt and what they went through, but beyond that I really felt like TTTC was very individual on how to portray the Vietnam War.