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Round Dynamic Characters In The Things They Carried By Tim O Brien

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In “The Things They Carried” Tim O'Brien uses a round dynamic characters to develop the overall story because he wants the characters to have deep personalities and have major changes to show the burdens of war both emotionally and physically. To clarify in this book one of the examples that shows Tim O'Brien uses round dynamic characters is Tim O'Brien. Tim is a very well developed character throughout the book. He also contradicts what he say, like be against the war “and back in college I had taken a modest stand against the war.” Then him later saying when wounded him missing being out there “when I missed the adventure, even the danger, of the real war out in the boonies.” Throughout the book Tim as a character changed, on example of

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