The Things They Carried

I'm not really sure how I felt about this book due to the fact that it had had a jumbled plot. The writing was amazing yet I found it difficult to follow at times what with all of the characters and out of order plot. This seemed to be the most optimistic piece we have studied thus far pertaining to the Vietnam War yet I still found it sadistic at times. For instance when Tim takes his daughter to Vietnam for her tenth birthday and wades through the mud, this seems to me to be more of a gross reminiscing rather than a learning experience for his daughter.