Zachari Spassatempo

Mrs. Johnston

English 4A

11/30/15

The things they carried part 2

I’m about a quarter of the way into the book and I have to start reading more and catch up. But in this part of the book I realized that one of the themes is this book is that O’Brien doesn’t care about fact or fake. Like how we went over the truth and the lies in our seminar about war, that sometimes the lie can be a part of the truth but O’Brian doesn’t care about the truth. In the story O’Brien betrays cross but the truth wasn’t important and necessary to him. How can the truth not be important? If he were to betray one of his own allies how can he be trusted with all of his other allies. He would be an outcast in the military if not discharged.  Betraying someone is one of the hardest things to forgive. How can you go from trusting someone and giving them everything for them to turn around and betray him? How is it not important to whether or not if he’s lying about betraying him and what he did? Like if he killed him or if he only said one of the secrets.  There’s a huge difference to each side. Ones a deadly thing that can get you put into prison and ones losing the trust of another ally that has your back. Both of them are huge deals but are on complete opposite levels. So what would you do if yo0u were betrayed and he exaggerated it and made it sound like it was irrelevant?