In the book “The Things They Carried” written by Tim O’Brian, uses a plethora of strategies to give the reader a deeper incite into the day life of an American solider during the Vietnam War. O’Brian shares with us his extensive knowledge and first-hand experience throughout the novel. Now O’Brian does give us some information on characters such as Curt Lemon on their personality, experience, and etc. Now Curt Lemon is not that famous of a character but, he does things that inspire the author and his men in his platoon. One way O’Brian makes Curt Lemon stand out his is personality, the actions he makes, and how the character never changes.
First of all, Curt Lemon is a solider in the platoon. His personality changes form one thing to another. One way Curt stands out his the way he goofs around. Rat Kiley and Curt were messing around by throwing smoke bombs at each other after they just arrived from a long journey to Vietnam. He’s laughing, having a great time. He truly loves to mess around even though he is on patrol looking for enemies that might attack. Another thing that makes him stand out his is courage to get a tooth pulled from Dentist. In HS, he was afraid of the dentist for some reason. In his camp sight, there is a dentist to check all the men’s mouth and make sure they are ready to go before war. Well, when he was called up, he fainted before the dentist could even lay a finger on him. A few hours later, he went back in and told him about an aching pain in his mouth and demanded the dentist to pull it out. Now the man was perfectly ok. The dentist pulled it out and he walked away with more courage than anyone proving to them that he is not afraid. (Truly he was afraid) Due to his fooling around with weapons and such, he is basically the childish and careless solider in his platoon, but he is also the most courageous man out of all of them. He shows fear a lot during his time to serve. He fears of everything that is harmless. For instants, he is...