The several stories i have read in the Things they carried, have certain themes embedded throughout them. For example a couple of the themes that i feel are apparent in theses several stories are change,truth in the war, finding one's personal self in the war. The reason i feel such them are evident are for several reason. As for example the truth of war becomes a key theme throughout these stories. by reading story "how to tell a true war story" we see how the soldiers established their own personal truths of the war. the tied in their emotions to make the meaning of the life they were living in this war for example when the narrator starts to talk about how the soldiers heard noises, and music, and an opera. Later when the colonel asks the guys what happened " they dont say zip. they just look at him for a while sort of funny like, sort of amazed, and the whole war was right there in that stare. it says everything you cant ever say" such example shows that what the soldiers lived through and there experiences was there own truth of the war. As said by the narrator the moral is "silence" its not about heroes, courage or killing, it about love. Moreover the theme of change is strongly embedded throughout the stories. For example, this aspect is seen when the author talks about how the soldiers changed their vocabulary and they started to cuss, and started to change their ways of how they were at home. This theme is later seen in the story sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong. the theme of change becomes evident because Fossie's girlfriend actually comes to the war, she is described as a young innocent girl barely out of high school, bubbly and with a personality. But later on the war engulfs her and she begins to change her aspect, her way of thiking, the way she sees herself all of it changes. She came in as an innocent girl, and stayed in the war as a girl soldier, addicted to the drug of war, to the rush, and adrenaline, she completely changes the way she was, she became the war.