American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1727 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Tim O'Brien and *The Things They Carried*
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The idea
O'Brien was drafted in nineteen sixty-eight though he opposed the war, and served in a division whose unit reached the area of the My Lai massacre a year after it. Going After Cacciato won the National Book Award, and The Things They Carried came in nineteen ninety.
In practice
A drafted objector, writing the war.
Where people slip
He learned of My Lai while stationed there.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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