The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three.
Chapter 1: The Things They Carried
Chapter 7: How to Tell a True War Story
Chapter 9: Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong
Chapter 15: Speaking of Courage
Chapter 20: The Ghost Soldiers
Chapter 22: The Lives of the Dead