Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is not a novel about the Vietnam War. It is a story about the soldiers and their experiences and emotions that are brought about from the war. O'Brien makes several statements about war through these dynamic characters. He shows the violent nature of soldiers under the pressures of war, he makes an effective antiwar statement, and he comments on the reversal of a social variation into the norm. By skillfully employing the stylistic technique of specific, conscious detail selection, O'Brien thoroughly makes each point.
As George Carlin once said to a New York audience, "We love war.
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