The Things They Carried

For my junior English class in high school, I read The Things They Carried, and now I'm reading it again for a junior English class in college. Mom mailed me my old book, so I keep getting sidetracked by my margin comments from four years ago. I'll have something underlined like "but it was not battle, it was just the endless march," and then next to it it'll say, no battle, only march. Insightful, Rachel. All of the ink is red. Now I'm going through with a blue pen, which is patriotic. The Ink of Innocence and the Ink of Experience, side by side. According to my notes, that's one of the book's themes.