Write an essay that analyzes both Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” (which

Write an essay that analyzes both Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” (which we read during Week Two) and Phil Klay’s “Redeployment.” How do both stories explore the relationship between the war front and the domestic front? What role do masculinity and femininity (and relations between men and women) play in each of the two stories? What do the two stories tell us about the resonances between the Vietnam War and the Iraq War and their respective tolls on the veterans who fought in each of them?