Things They Carried Essay: A Cultural Studies Approach to Enemies

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