Comparison of Fear and Death in The Things They Carried and Under the Ridge
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Introduction
The theme of death and fear has been discussed in several pieces of the literature through
the ages. Many poets and authors have highlighted this theme from the end of the soldiers. It is a
very common thing to know that the soldiers are seen as brave people and they sacrifice their
lives for their countries. However, soldiers have seen this aspect of war and battle in a negative
way and it is nothing but a loss of lives and resources. In this essay the short stories The Things
They Carried by Tim O’Brien and Under the Ridge by Ernest Hemingway will be compared on
the theme of fear and death. The ways the soldiers see it and the ways it could be tackled will be
discussed in this paper as well (Armstrong and Tennenhouse 39).
Theme of fear in the novels
The theme of fear is a very important matter of the short story The Things They carried
by Tim O’Brien. This story evidently brings out the experience of wars from the end of the
soldiers and the level of trauma i.e. caused by it. In this short story Tim O’Brien has gone on to
tell his own experience in the battlefield while he was deployed at Vietnam (O'brien: 27). There
were many other soldiers with him in the battlefield whom he counted as friends. He saw many
common Vietnamese people died and numerous soldiers had lost their lives as well. In this story,
he has discussed about his own feelings on war as well. He revealed that the soldiers are forced
to carry several things in the battlefield but there are some things that they carry from their own.
These are the pictures of their near and dear ones, Bible and the utmost fear of their death. This
death could come upon them at any point of time. All these items are reflections of their
personality and identity (O'brien: 27). He has been able to identify some potential things
regarding war experience. In this short story, Time O’Brien has brought out the finality of death
Introduction
The theme of death and fear has been discussed in several pieces of the literature through
the ages. Many poets and authors have highlighted this theme from the end of the soldiers. It is a
very common thing to know that the soldiers are seen as brave people and they sacrifice their
lives for their countries. However, soldiers have seen this aspect of war and battle in a negative
way and it is nothing but a loss of lives and resources. In this essay the short stories The Things
They Carried by Tim O’Brien and Under the Ridge by Ernest Hemingway will be compared on
the theme of fear and death. The ways the soldiers see it and the ways it could be tackled will be
discussed in this paper as well (Armstrong and Tennenhouse 39).
Theme of fear in the novels
The theme of fear is a very important matter of the short story The Things They carried
by Tim O’Brien. This story evidently brings out the experience of wars from the end of the
soldiers and the level of trauma i.e. caused by it. In this short story Tim O’Brien has gone on to
tell his own experience in the battlefield while he was deployed at Vietnam (O'brien: 27). There
were many other soldiers with him in the battlefield whom he counted as friends. He saw many
common Vietnamese people died and numerous soldiers had lost their lives as well. In this story,
he has discussed about his own feelings on war as well. He revealed that the soldiers are forced
to carry several things in the battlefield but there are some things that they carry from their own.
These are the pictures of their near and dear ones, Bible and the utmost fear of their death. This
death could come upon them at any point of time. All these items are reflections of their
personality and identity (O'brien: 27). He has been able to identify some potential things
regarding war experience. In this short story, Time O’Brien has brought out the finality of death
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