The Elusiveness of War and the Tenuousness of Morality in Tim O?Brien?s

The Elusiveness of War and the Tenuousness of Morality in Tim OBriens The Things They Carried, How to identify a True War Story, and StyleIn the novel The Things They Carried, Tim OBrien demonstrates how exposure to the atrocities of nations at war leads to the soldiers having skewed perspectives on what is right and wrong, predominantly at times when the purpose of the war itself appears elusive. The ambiguity that consumes the stories of The Things They Carried and How to Tell a True War Story is displayed with irony, for the moral of such war stories is that there is no moral at all. OBrien portrays the character Mitchell Sanders as an beholder who seeks the morals to be found through the war fatalities however, he depicts these morals in a manner that actually stresses the impiety of the situations above all else. The characters in this novel are at the forefront of the Vietnam War, thus blinded by carnage that soon begins to obscure any prior notions held about what is morali stic and what is not.The goal of Ted Lavender in The Things They Carried leads to Lieutenant Jimmy dog moral blunder which is brought about by his guilt over the horror of the incident Lieutenant Cross felt the pain. He blamed himself He pictured Marthas smooth young face and now Ted Lavender was dead because he loved her so much and could not stop thinking about her. When the dustoff arrived, they carried Lavender aboard. Afterward they...