War Story

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Justin K

 

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June 30, 2014

 

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University

 

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So tells us Tim O’Brien, a master in the art of war stories. What they are about is life, love, family, loss, grief, and “the little things,” like having electricity, or a dry cigarette. O’Brien’s The Things They Carried takes you as close as you can get to war without actually enlisting: These autobiographical stories are not about the Vietnam war, they’re about what it feels and looks and smells like to be in the Vietnam war...
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Speaking of true war stories, a very different wartime testimony “from the other side,” the side of the occupied people, is Riverbend’s Baghdad Burning, the best story out there, fictional or non, to understand what’s happening in Iraq today. What O’Brien and Riverbend have in common is that they take you inside the war zone so effectively that in the midst of reading you’ll jump at the sound of a car starting and wonder for a split second if the shelling has begun again...
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