Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” both deal with violence and the moral ambiguity surrounding it‚ although the authors employ different approaches based on the emotional response they are trying to create in the reader. Because the stories are set in dissimilar environments‚ the way in which the authors depict violence is geared to the setting in which it occurs. However‚ the harmful effects of violence on the human psyche are portrayed in similar ways in both stories. In “Killings
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How do you decide what is true and what is false? In war the line blurs even more. We hear war stories and wonder about the truth of these stories. We love to believe the stories of heroism and bravery. Now how do we know that these stories are real and not created propaganda? The Things They Carried by Tim O?Brien is a fiction book that shines some light on war stories. This complex book focuses on a complex war. The Vietnam War was complex for the reasons surrounding it. Some of the reasons were;
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and Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell A True War Story” (1987) were written about sixty two years apart and portray different experiences after the war settling back into everyday American society‚ both works have similar situations‚ a setting of war‚ and experiences. In “Soldier’s Home”‚ Harold Krebs‚ a nineteen year old soldier‚ fought in the Belleau Wood‚ Soissons‚ the Champagne‚ St. Mihiel‚ and in the Argonne battles of World War I‚ while the soldier in “How to Tell a True War Story” is deployed during
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In the short‚ story “How to Tell a True War Story” Tim O’Brien‚ the author‚ confuses the reader with his unique idea on how to tell a real story. Despite the fact‚ that O’Brien was drafted to go to the Vietnam War in 1969 he uses his friends and partners’ stories throughout his war years‚ to tell the world that everything about war is mistaken. Throughout his collection‚ The Thing They Carried (1990) he emphases that fear is what motivate soldiers to go to war. Indeed‚ fear drove him; he went to
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“How to tell a true war story”-Character Analysis Tim O’ Brien’s “How to tell a true war story” construes the relationship between the war experiences and the ways of storytelling. O Brien’s story telling as a narrator shows that the storyteller has the power to form his listener’s experiences and opinions. His way of describing situations are unique because his story distorted the reader’s perceptions of beauty and ugliness by making different situation and scenes seem pleasing‚ even though it
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Ferrante Professor Helff WRT 201-048 October 7th‚ 2013 “How to Tell a True War Story” In the short story‚ “How to Tell a True War Story‚” the implicit problem that is created about the story by its first line‚ “this is true‚” is that the readers may think the line is sarcasm and not believe the information being said. The readers will question if the story is true or not. Throughout the story the narrator says how many war stories are not true so I do not know what to believe. The author‚ Tim O’Brien
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have written war stories and about the effects of war on a person. Two of these writers are Tim O’Brian and Ernest Hemingway. O’Brian wrote "How to Tell a True War Story"; and Hemingway wrote a short story called "Soldier’s Home". Both of these stories illustrate to the reader just what war can do to an average person and what‚ during war‚ made the person change. The stories are alike in many respects due to the fact that both authors served time in the army; O’Brian in the Vietnam War and Hemingway
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Bushra Asghar 5/26/12 How to Tell a True War Story Project Dear Mr. Bunkoff‚ I am sitting by the fireplace and just thinking about life in general when memories from elementary school come flooding back. I am writing this letter to you‚ because I feel very guilty when thoughts of your
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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
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help define a true war story. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ O’Brien explores these different characteristics to put together a strong collection of stories. In this collection of stories‚ the author shares stories from the points of view of many different soldiers in the Vietnam War. He shares different stories of life before‚ during‚ and after the war that change who these characters are as people. O’brien uses short stories with common themes of what makes a true war story to describe
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