{"id":5234,"date":"2019-12-14T03:27:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T07:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:21:40","slug":"the-things-they-carried-the-man-i-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-things-they-carried-the-man-i-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Things They Carried\u2014&#8221;The Man I Killed&#8221;: Chapter Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What happens in <em>The Things They Carried <\/em>&#8220;The Man I Killed&#8221; chapter? How does the chapter &#8220;The Man I Killed&#8221; change the tone of the novel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll look at the basic elements of <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>&#8216;s<em> <\/em>&#8220;The Man I Killed&#8221; chapter and look at how the shame and horror of war present themselves after the war is over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The Things They Carried<\/em>: &#8220;The Man I Killed&#8221;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this chapter of <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, &#8220;The Man I Killed,&#8221; <strong>O\u2019Brien vividly recalls the VC soldier he killed<\/strong>. He describes him as a \u201cdainty young man\u201d who was left with a star-shaped hole in his eye after O\u2019Brien\u2019s grenade tore through him. O\u2019Brien stresses that he did not kill him out of any personal malice, nor out of any moral or political conviction, or even out of a sense of military duty. Seeing the young enemy soldier pass by a few meters away, O\u2019Brien simply pulled the pin on his grenade and lobbed it at him as a purely automatic function. It was not even an act of self-defense\u2014O\u2019Brien knows that this soldier would have almost certainly passed him by harmlessly had he simply done nothing. <strong>He remains deeply traumatized by the experience, haunted by it even decades later.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/azar-the-things-they-carried\/\">Azar<\/a>, in his typically callous manner, described the body as being like \u201cShredded fuckin\u2019 Wheat.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/kiowa-the-things-they-carried\/\">Kiowa<\/a>, however, tried to comfort O\u2019Brien about what he\u2019d done, telling O\u2019Brien that he had had no choice in the matter. It was war and it could have just as easily been O\u2019Brien lying dead. Kiowa reminded O\u2019Brien of the fatalistic circumstances of war\u2014the man would likely have been killed anyway, if not by O\u2019Brien, then by someone else. Critically, O\u2019Brien remembers Kiowa urging him to <em>talk <\/em>about his feelings instead of suppressing them in this chapter of <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, &#8220;The Man I Killed.&#8221; <strong>Kiowa was encouraging O\u2019Brien to fulfill his role as a storyteller.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Brien then takes us through an imagined biography of the young man he killed.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: It is another example of the blurred line between fact and fiction and the subjective nature of even \u201ctrue\u201d war storytelling. O\u2019Brien, of course, couldn\u2019t have <em>known <\/em>in any absolute sense the details of this soldier\u2019s life, but he shares it with us anyway. The story is true, because it represents the <em>kind <\/em>of thing that <em>did <\/em>happen in Vietnam, and serves as a stand-in for the untold stories of the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese who died in the war.&nbsp;Perhaps most importantly, it evokes the proper sense of shame and sadness in the reader.)&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;The Man I Killed,&#8221; the young man was born in the village of My Khe around 1946, into a family that had resisted French colonialism (though the young man himself was not a Communist). <strong>Like O\u2019Brien, the young soldier was subjected to peer pressure from his community<\/strong> about the necessity of military service. He was bombarded with stories about the famed military exploits of his family and how it was his duty to follow in their footsteps. <strong>He, too, was afraid of disgracing himself.<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he\u2019d had no stomach for soldiering. 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