Eating Them Away

A detailed Summary of Eating Them Away

For young people, the Vietnam War is a thing of the past and they can

only learn about it from second hand sources. In Tim O'brien's The

Things They Carried, it becomes very apparent that the Vietnam

conflict has proved to be one that many of the participants have not

been able move away from, while getting on with their lives. O²brien

shows that the conflict takes on a parasitic form that eats away on

its victims for the rest of their lives.

A parasite is defined as an organism that grows, feeds, and is

sheltered on or in a different organism while harming its host. The

war in this case takes the place of the organism, and the host becomes

the soldiers. There are several examples of the parasitic nature of

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Category: English

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