Need help to write an Essay on The Things They Carried: “On the Rainy River”: analysis, evaluation

“On the Rainy River”: analysis, evaluation

First-person narrator Tim O’Brien observes that Elroy Birdahl was the hero of his life. He also confesses, “I was a coward. I went to war.” Write a thoughtful and well-supported essay in which you examine the impact these apparent paradoxes have on the reader’s understanding of O’Brien’s conflict.