Shame, By Tim O Brian - 924 Words

Throughout this quarter we have read many books and many genres, at first glance they don’t seem to have any intertwining themes or ideas. Yet when you dig deeper than face value you can see that there is many underlying themes that the average reader might easily overlook. Shame is an overall human element that is seen all throughout; The Things They Carried, the Fifth Child, and Pocatello. Shame is the key to good literature, it is what drives the other emotions, and without shame people would not be people. The Things They Carried, was riddled with the idea of shame. One simple example is when Tim O’Brian was drafted and he wanted to run away to Canada to be safe from the U.S. military. This was an important internal battle for him, which he ultimately decided to fight against and join the army, as law required. Shame was important in this piece of literature to bring out the soldiers feelings and their true intentions. 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