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Katherine Carcamo ENC 1143 Professor Caton-David March 5, 2018 Summary #4 “How to Tell a True War Story” Summary In the article, “How to Tell a True War Story”. Tim O’Brien discusses the abstract community and obscures the honest experience between fantasy and truth. O’Brien is an American novelist whom is supremely known for his knowledge and experiences in the Vietnam War. Initially, O’Brien demonstrates two short-stories that are fallacious to his intended audience of Americans. Generally speaking, the authors repetitive use of words such as “true” affiliates as a paradoxical interpretation. The purpose of this narrative is for his readers to understand the generic warfare versus the brutal truth. Secondly, the narrative is told in second and third-person point of view by using words such as “you” and “he” (O’Brien 127). Furthermore, the authors tone is blunt and straightforward since he’s truthful. For instance, through an expression of pathos, O’Brien directs his audience, “If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made a victim of a very old and terrible lie” (O’Brien 127). For the most part, he wants his readers to comprehend there is nothing positive about war. To sum up, O’Brien concludes his story that war is nevermore about the fearsome and horrid experience, he claims it’s a memoir about love and grief that remains. Word Count 222 Works Cited:

“How To Tell a True War Story.” How to Tell a True War Story, by Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried, 1990....