Most stories about war show the glory of war and the heroism of soldiers. According to the OED, war is “a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state.” But what is the definition of the stage of confusion in the soldier's mind? A conflict between two nations or two states can be resolved within a given period of time, but can an experience of a person's mind ever be forgotten, can a person ever be able to resolve his own conflict: his struggle with his emotions, his changes and his own mind? Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried is a powerful combination of fact and fiction; through description and imagination, O'Brien allows the reader to feel a soldier's hardships during the war and his emotional state. His aim in this book is to tell a story of war which is not true, which has no teaching, which cannot be believed and, above all, which never has an end and which does not concern not the Vietnam War. In his fiction, each man's physical burden is reflected in his emotional burden caused by the various changes in his life throughout the war. In The Things They Carried, O'Brien wants to convey the emotional experience of the soldiers without worrying about objective reality. But why is this change happening? Why is a change clearly visible to others so important to O'Brien? He uses short sentences and consistent repetition of different terms or use of the same format to draw us into his writing, making us eager for the next event that the next story will tell us - although all the stories in The Things They Carried do not enter there. in the order in which the events actually happened, we readers don't even know if those events actually happened or not; Yet we sense the chronological order of changes that...... middle of paper ...... emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, desire - these were intangibles, but intangibles had their own mass and their own specific gravity, they had tangible weight" ("Adopted" 23). O'Brien showed the effect that emotional desires have on a person's thoughts and feelings Although he says his novel is about a true story, which is not about war and has no moral, one. can understand that O'Brien's fiction is a message against forcing young people into war through fabricated stories the author shows the transformation of a person's emotional state because of; war and its long-term impact O'Brien's stories prove that visible physical burdens accentuate invisible emotional burden: physical burden can be expressed in words, but emotional burden, changes are encouraged by our. environment cannot be expressed in words - so they always remain false but true.