Friday, April 8, 2011

How to Tell a True War Story

The story about a series of stories that are confusingly linked in some type of way.

All of the stories tell a true war story from the narrator's point of view. The structure of the stories are wacky and not in chronological placement like the other stories. It's more complex and may confuse the reader if the reader were not paying attention. How to Tell a True War Story is a story on how to create a true war story; the structure of the story is the correct form. The story starts off with the narrator telling a story about Rat Kiley writing a letter to his dead friend's sister. The letter is like memorial, explaining Kiley and his friend and what they did during the war (another bromance). The passage ends, beginning another one racaping the previous story. This passage is like a review; again, explaining the correct way of telling a true war story:

"A true war story is never moral...If a story seems moral, do not believe it..."

This is the story's structure through out the whole chapter. The author's tone may be the effect of it. Telling a true war story seems very important to the narrator. While reading the chapter, it reminds me of a war movie. Like Forest Gump and Bubba in the war- they become friends not knowing their past lives. Then Bubba dies; leaving Forest. Similar to the story, the men seemed optimistic; working on their future as their lives flash before their eyes.


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