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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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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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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In the passage “How to Tell a True War Story‚” Tim O’Brien explores the idea that the truth in a war story does not matter; only the emotions that the story is trying to relay matters. In the beginning of the passage O’Brien starts with a story about the death of a soldier‚ Curt Lemon. Lemon was playing around with his best friend‚ Rat Kiley‚ when he stepped on a hidden mine and was blown away. After the death of Lemon O’Brien brings up the idea that in a war story it is nearly impossible to separate
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Lemon’s sister’s inability to give back the letter offers a sort of miserable and genuine good to the story. Thought the story many thing that was said and can be explain. War stories is not what everybody believe it to be about. O’Brien offers abstract commentary on storytelling. He also blurs the divisions between what is real and what is not real and author .In the story O’Brien states‚ “A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct‚ nor encourage virtue‚ nor suggest models of proper human
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The irony in “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien is that in the first line O’Brien says that “This is true” (340). And goes into the story of his friend Rat writing a letter to the sister of his friend who recently died. Then goes into how to tell a good war story and proceeds to tell his own experience with Rat Kiley and his friend Lemon. But in the end he says “All you can do is tell it one more time‚ patiently‚ adding and subtracting‚ making up a few things to get the real truth” (349)
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In Soldier’s Home‚ Ernest Hemingway depicts Harold Krebs return home from World War I and the problems he faces when dealing with his homecoming and transition back towards a normal life. After the fighting overseas commenced‚ it took Krebs a year to finally leave Europe and return to his family in Oklahoma. Once home‚ he found it hard to talk about all he had seen in his tour of duty overseas‚ which should be attributed to the fact that he saw action in some of the bloodiest‚ most crucial battles
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Telling a True War Story Assignment Vietnam was a place like no other. It was swarmed with presence of stories‚ some strange‚ some nefarious‚ and some just utterly incredible. But for those who think like me‚ Vietnam‚ even in its times of horror and imperfections‚ can really bring out the very true nature in someone. Like the way someone stands upon his feet after numerous bumps and blows‚ like the grit that one shows after driven against the wall — the true character of one person
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SOLDIER’S HOME In the short story called SOLDIER’S HOME‚ by Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway‚ the main character Krebs has just returned from World War One in Europe. This is the perennial story of the hero leaving on some quest‚ only to return home finding everything different. Therefore‚ identity conflict holds the key to this story. Hemingway shows us how the hero must move on as there apparently is no such thing as a soldier’s home. Harold Krebs returns from World War I having
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How to tell a true Friend Giselle Cartagena August 15‚ 2013 Composition assignment Illustration essay A true friend is someone who sees and encourages the best in us. A true friend hard to come by and she can be the most important person in your life. A true friend is different from your casual friends in that she is the one you can turn to in difficult times and will stand by you no matter what you are going through. While casual friends are great for an occasional night out‚ your
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