Final Blog - The Final Blog
Welp, here it is, folks: my final blog. I've written many blogs during this year, some great and others terrible, but I'm afraid this winding road is finally coming to an end. It's almost funny, too. At the beginning of the year I was completely against writing blogs and wanted them to be over, but now that I've actually made it to the end it is almost upsetting (key word is, "almost"). Anywho, the topic for today is a relatively open one, evaluating two very impactful chapters in The Things They Carried : "Speaking of Courage" and "Notes." Now without further ado, one last time, let's get into the blog. Both of the afore-mentioned chapters are quite significant, yet less direct than others that are more straightforward. On the surface, O'Brien is telling us, the readers, about some of Norman Bowker's experiences both in the war and after the war. This, again, is just the surface. The first and most obvious symbol in these c
