The Things They Carried
by
main characters
Tim O'Brien, various
Rip's impressions
Reserved for Guest Editor
first line
First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.
last lines
(spoiler alert)
I’m skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy’s life with a story.
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