Using Reader-Response Literary Theory to O`Brien .T (1990) The Things They Carried.
Introduction In the story, by O`Brien, “The Things They Carried” The title illustrates the major theme of the story, things carried during the Vietnam War, both emotional and physical. The protagonist sets the stage by showing the events that took place a midst his Vietnam experience. The narrator describes what Lieutenant carried, “letters from a girl named Martha” (O`Brien, 2017). They carried physical war tools like […]