So I am reading the book called The Things They Carried and overall in the book one theme has spoken to me. When reading a book about war you can guess that a theme may be trying to cope with the deaths of fellow comrades, this book is no different than you would expect. In this story, however, the prospective is from a person who never seems to feel any huge since of remorse. Instead he only sees the remorse and anger of death that comes from the people who were associated with the deceased. Tim, the main character, says “when [Lemon] died it was almost beautiful.” (70) This shows not only the fact that Tim wasn’t very close to him, or others for that matter, but also that in war when there is pulverizing and death practically following you, the mind begins to process what it perceives in ways it may not have post-war. The fact that a death was beautiful and, mentioned later on, a sunset is beautiful before the troops invade a town on the other side of a river, are both ways that Tim copes with war and a way that he evades going insane. He has detached himself from others as to avoid a huge loss if he or they are perished in Nam.