The Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

The Things Our Soldiers Are Now Carrying

After finishing Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried, what do you now see in these images from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that you might not have seen before?

What is the story truth you see in these images?

After finishing Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried, what do you now see in these images from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that you might not have seen before?

What is the story truth you see in these images?

And after the war. . .

The artist for the drawings that follow is Michael Fay, a veteran of the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars.

What do you think he is trying to convey about the soldiers of these wars through his drawings?

What do you think Michael Fay is trying to convey about the soldiers of these wars through his drawings?

How is the impact of drawings different than the impact of photographs?