Mysterious Ways of Tim O'Brien

Mysterious Ways of Tim O'Brien

Have you ever heard a war story? Has anyone in your family told you about the Vietnam war? Well these stories have many real and truthful fact. But how do you know there's not lie in them? Based on all of that your still hooked on hearing the story. In The Things They Carried, author Tim O'Brien explains how telling a true war story is mad of lies, exaggeration, and real fact about the war, through the use of metafictional devices.

If and when a war story is told pay attentions to the details. If you experience refinement or rectitude had been recovered from the waste, then you have been made a fool of. " A true war story is never moral. ... If it seems moral , do not believe it". Not because you have been made a fool, but because only maybe half of this really has any moral in it and maybe because only half is really true. Except not all stories are like this. Some are really long and interesting supposing the war story is embarrassing, then the story has truth behind it. Still it's based on the moral of the story. But that's only if the story really has a moral. " You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. ... If you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote". Honestly how do you know what's really going on if the story has no moral and it does not embarrasses you, how do you tell? How do you tell reality from what has happened?

" In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen". Thought out these stories there is a lot of lies, exaggerations, and truth. Tim O'Brien uses these metafictional devices to keep the listener wanting more then what they came to read. why do they do this? They do this because the next time they tell the story its better then the first. However they all start with "in a war story."

Tim O'Brien has a very different writing style. Yet this style gets through to the young readers. Many of the young reader can't tell if the stories are true or false. Many of the stories are both. "ninety percent of war stories are false" The soldiers still did amazing thins while at war." In many cases a true war story cannot be believed. If you believe it, be skeptical. It's a question of credibility". Many listeners don't question the story, they go with it. Have you ever felt like a story was never going to end? Tim O'Brien makes many of the chapters in The Things They Carried seem like they were never coming to an end, but they did. "You can tell a true war story by the way it ever seems to end. Not then , not ever". But what's the point of a war story? Stories from the war are not just stories. this is a way for soldiers to remember the things they said, did, saw, felt, and experienced during this time.