Tim O'Brien

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Tim O'Brien is well known for his writing about the Vietnam War and the impact the war had on the American culture and the soldiers who served over there.

A main attribute of O'Briens work is the blur between fiction and reality, called Verisimilitude . His unique writing style incorporates his conscious , explicit , and metafictional approach to distinguish between fact and fiction.

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Keep these attributes about his writing technique in mind as you read The Things They Carried. See if you can find 2-3 examples of the blur between fact and fiction and his own personal experiences.

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