Things They Carried Essay: A Cultural Studies Approach to Enemies

A ethnical Studies Approach to Enemies in The Things They Carried     Two men who fight over a jackknife in Enemies, a chapter in Tim OBriens work, The Things They Carried.  A cultural studies set out to Enemies allows the reader to look much deeper into the meaning of the events that unfold in Enemies.  The fight over the knife could very well reflect the events occurring in high society during that time.          In short, Enemies is about two men, Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen, who are battling not unaccompanied in a war but with each other.  They were viciously battle about a missing jackknife.  A question that the reader faculty ask themselves is, why were they fighting over a jackknife? Did it gravel some special sentimental meaning?  These questions cannot be answered they can unaccompanied be left to wonder.         Vietnam was a very mentally and physically arduous war to fig ht.  At any given point any soldier could snap.  That is exactly what happen...