Foreigners in VietnamWhen you think of what is foreign to the common soldier in the Vietnam War, you usually think of the Vietnamese people or the terrain. In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien turns the idea of ​​what is foreign to the common soldier in Vietnam on its head. The opposite also happens: what was not so long ago so familiar at home now seems almost completely unknown to them. O'Brien also shows similarities between American soldiers and the Viet Cong. In the cartoon “The Man I Killed” Tim O'Brien relates to the man he killed. She invents a life for the man she didn't even know. “But all he could do, he thought, was wait, pray and try not to grow up too fast.” This quote shows an assumption about man that Tim O'Brien makes based on almost nothing. This analysis could also relate to Tim's experience with the war. O'Brien was initially reluctant to go to war for exactly this reason he thought the Vietnamese were. O'Brien bonded with the man and through this realized that the soldiers fighting each other were not much different aft...