A True War Story
A true war story is always about what happened in your perspective, how you saw the events as the storyteller and the emotion you felt as the reader or listener. It is not about the events that occured. A true war story is to make the person listening or reading feel the true emotions of what war felt like to the people involved, especially the storyteller. We convey true stories by sharing it on the news, one way an artist would do this is they differentiate the facts from experience. They show the experience of war by sharing stories that seem unbelievable because it is not about what happened, but the emotions and the impact of what the seemingly never ending story signified.
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The more unbelievable the story seems the more likely it is to be true, leading to the real moral of the story if there is one. “ In war you lose your sense of definite, hence your sense of truth itself”, O'brien says. He states that as a soldier, there is so much to take in from war scenes that it all become muddled. Therefore, the stories can be different from each soldier's perspective because of the fact that each puts their own ideas in the story, what they think happened. This, which in turn, leads to speculation on whether or not the stories are actually true. O’Brien feels the need to make up parts of his stories due to the fact that he wants the reader to experience emotions as an alternative to mental visuals. Mitchell Sanders told the story of the men in the mountain, how they heard mysterious sounds of trumpets, music echoing, and yelling. According to O’brien you could hear how desperately he wanted to get the details right, how he wanted his frustration to be shown at not knowing how to get a definite truth. Sanders then approaches O’Brien and admits to lying on some parts of the story, he insisted the story was still true. Mitchell Sanders comes up with more than one moral for the story, the first being no one listens, the second being that there isn't anything to really listen to. There are many, endless morals to the
To differentiate happening truth and story, facts from experience, …show more content…
The more unbelievable the story seems the more likely it is to be true, leading to the real moral of the story if there is one. “ In war you lose your sense of definite, hence your sense of truth itself”, O'brien says. He states that as a soldier, there is so much to take in from war scenes that it all become muddled. Therefore, the stories can be different from each soldier's perspective because of the fact that each puts their own ideas in the story, what they think happened. This, which in turn, leads to speculation on whether or not the stories are actually true. O’Brien feels the need to make up parts of his stories due to the fact that he wants the reader to experience emotions as an alternative to mental visuals. Mitchell Sanders told the story of the men in the mountain, how they heard mysterious sounds of trumpets, music echoing, and yelling. According to O’brien you could hear how desperately he wanted to get the details right, how he wanted his frustration to be shown at not knowing how to get a definite truth. Sanders then approaches O’Brien and admits to lying on some parts of the story, he insisted the story was still true. Mitchell Sanders comes up with more than one moral for the story, the first being no one listens, the second being that there isn't anything to really listen to. There are many, endless morals to the