In every story the reader will have to decide if it is true or not. Especially in books that talk about the war. Reading through the author Tom O’Brien material there is several times that he points out it was the truth. However the truth in war stories are more likely to be stretched some as in the example that he gave about people hearing things in the mountains and bombing it based off what they heard. In story telling we have to be clear on what we may not ever really know if it was true or not. If you have enough supporting facts then you could conclude it to be likely true, but never assume truth in story telling about the war.
Tom O’Brien did a great job in pointing out that things can seem very real to the author and not be. War plays funny mind games like that and people will think something is real and it is not. I liked how he pointed out what was real was how after 20 years waking up in the middle of the night thinking about it and all the details as if it was yesterday.Like truth in story telling it is very difficult to point out the reality of the story.
Something else that Tom O’Brien does a good job informing us about is how a moral of a war story will not always be in plane sight. The reader really has to dig for it. It is something that in war really takes time to develop and usually is not something good. The thing I took away from the reading that we did was that war was something that really impacted the author even after 20 years it still haunts him. I am glad though that he tells the story because it is one way that the war will be remembered and not forgotten.
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