O'Brien's War Story So Far

This week reading, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien has shed some light on the war stories told by the veterans who have fought for us. As O'Brien has written this book as a fictional price it still seems as the stories told in this book are similar if not the stories of actual events. As these events are played out in his perspective it makes one think of how this may look from the outside or to the enemy, or even from another troop members point of view. Compared to old or even new war movies, O'Brien's book gives a mu have more realistic point of view on the lives and the time spent in enemy territory. In saying this I mean that Tim O'Brien spells out the way these war events happened without "sugar coating it" as the movies do. In the book he describes the way many troop members die and compared to the way these deaths are compacted in films and the ideas of many others it was very cold and sudden. The drama in his book puts and emphasis on the effects of the war on the soldiers fighting in it. In such a way it effects them mentally and physically but more so mentally, this is shown more of in the book. The soldier who fight in wars not only fight the enemy at bay but the enemy inset themselves as well. Tim O'Brien's book is a strait forward truely told fiction novel of a war fought many years ago.