{"id":5255,"date":"2019-12-11T03:31:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T07:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=5255"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:23:38","slug":"field-trip-the-things-they-carried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/field-trip-the-things-they-carried\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Field Trip&#8221;\u2014The Things They Carried: Complete Chapter Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What happens in the chapter &#8220;Field Trip&#8221; in <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>? How does &#8220;Field Trip&#8221; demonstrate how soldiers seek closure after the war is over?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll look at the basic elements of the chapter &#8220;Field Trip&#8221; (<em>The Things They Carried<\/em>)<em> <\/em>and look at how the narrator attempts to bring the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/tim-obrien-vietnam\/\">Vietnam War<\/a> to life for his young daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Field Trip&#8221; (<em>The Things They Carried<\/em>)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this chapter of <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, &#8220;Field Trip,&#8221; <strong>43-year-old O\u2019Brien returns to Vietnam with his ten-year-old daughter, Kathleen<\/strong>. He wishes to bring his war experience alive for his daughter by bringing her to the country that has defined so much of his life. While in Vietnam, Kathleen struggles to understand why the war happened and how her father came to be a part of it. He is unable to coherently explain to her either the political and ideological conflicts that created the conflict or the sequence of events that led to his personal decision to fight in it.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually, O\u2019Brien takes her to the setting of his most harrowing war experience\u2014the field where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/kiowa-the-things-they-carried\/\">Kiowa<\/a> died.<strong> <\/strong>Both his daughter and the Vietnamese government interpreter who accompanies them are perplexed as to why he would choose to visit such a place. Kathleen almost immediately notices the stench of the field.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In &#8220;Field Trip&#8221; in <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>, O\u2019Brien notes how ordinary and mundane the field looks today, nothing like the filthy hellscape it was the night Kiowa died. It is hard to imagine that this place has loomed so large in his mind for all these years\u2014<strong>this field, after all, had killed his close friend, while transforming O\u2019Brien himself into a different person than who he\u2019d been before<\/strong>. This field was the cornerstone of his Vietnam trauma, the place that embodied all the filth and terror of the war. Now, however, he sees it for what it really is: just a drab and unremarkable patch of dirt in a far-flung corner of rural Vietnam, obscure and unremarkable.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In what he hopes is a final act of closure, <strong>O\u2019Brien returns Kiowa\u2019s moccasins to the field, letting them sink into the mud<\/strong>. Although a gifted writer, words fail him in this instant. He is unable to come up with anything poignant or meaningful to say during this moment of remembrance. He simply says, \u201cWell, there it is,\u201d as he looks back at the field one last time. 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