Literary Analysis Essay on The Things They WoreThe book The Things They Wore by Tim O'Brien is fiction and truth combined to create a frustrating and addictive fiction novel about the Vietnam War. . O'Brien created stories using his experiences in Vietnam, whether true or not, this is inaccessible knowledge to the reader, the only person who has this knowledge is O'Brien himself. Through his writings, he emphasized the fact that you cannot perfectly recall experiences from your past when telling a story, but that the way it is told is "sometimes truer than the truth that is happening (O 'Brien 171) which helps to give to the things they A depth carried beyond that of a "real" and true story. O'Brien has many characters in his book, some change throughout the book and others + are introduced briefly and change drastically during their time at war and the transition to returning home after the war. war. The way the characters change highlights the effect of war on the body and mind. The things boys must do during the war and "the things men did or felt they had to do" 24 conflict with their morals, burning the sense of their morals with the duties they must blindly perform. War tears away the innocence of young people, “where a boy in a man’s body is forced to become an adult” before he is ready; with an abrupt precision that no one could even understand and from which it is impossible to completely recover. History is riddled with death; all the dead people he saw: Linda, Ted Lavender, Kiowa, Curt Lemon, the man he killed and all the others without names. Through his memories, he relives his stay in Vietnam. By telling their stories, he “continues to dream, to dream them alive”. to try to restore his