Dear O’Brien
Ever since reading your novel of “The Things They Carried” I have never been so amazed of the power of descriptive writing in a tale of a soldier’s life in war. You have such an interesting perspective of writing a novel that not only tells a story but with the help of exemplification makes it more interesting and defining, a true page turner (and if I had the actual book I would read the whole thing). What I like so much about your novel is that you say the truth and you don’t skip out on something if you have to tell something personal about your life, you do it even if it embarrasses you. That is what most writers are missing they lack honesty and that is what makes a story interesting and last long in peoples memory.
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and yet, although O'Brien is very honest about war, there is an element of fiction to his writing as well...he blurs the line between fact and illusion. Maybe it is not important that we know the difference, maybe it is more important that we understand the larger picture he constructs of a war "fought for no reason". Interesting thinking.
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