Tim O’Brien and Wilfred Owen both seek to convey to their readers the obscene brutality and wastefulness of war by presenting their own personal war stories. Through the intermingling of both past and present experiences and emotions in their texts, these writers are demonstrating the impact of war had on themselves as a means of conveying its horrors. O’Brien chooses to focus on the specific memories of the war itself while Owen chooses to reminisce on the happenings that took place before the war. On the whole, they differ immensely as O’Brien’s book is described as a very exhaustive study while Owen’s poem is more of an exaggerated and illustrated take on the war. Stylistically, they differ as well, O’Brien text uses a mixture of his own
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When I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy’s life with a story.
O’Brien explains how this act of storytelling becomes a comfort from the grief experienced from the after effects of the war. He is optimistic about the memory power of his storytelling and also explains the immortality that it creates to the person who is dead and the bonding it shows to that of the person who tells the story, by which it enables O’Brien to cope with his traumatic past.
In the chapter of “notes” the author shows his vagueness and aimless scope of the war with reference to the death of the soldier Kiowa. O’Brien explains his strategy to cope with war as he writes;
“By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others.”
Here the author shows how well he could elucidate and sum up the incidents of the war and create a nexus between the events of the war and the after effects of it. The letter has inspired O’Brien which led to the summation of the story telling with his own experiences and made him throw light of the traumatic experiences that he had
When I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy’s life with a story.
O’Brien explains how this act of storytelling becomes a comfort from the grief experienced from the after effects of the war. He is optimistic about the memory power of his storytelling and also explains the immortality that it creates to the person who is dead and the bonding it shows to that of the person who tells the story, by which it enables O’Brien to cope with his traumatic past.
In the chapter of “notes” the author shows his vagueness and aimless scope of the war with reference to the death of the soldier Kiowa. O’Brien explains his strategy to cope with war as he writes;
“By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others.”
Here the author shows how well he could elucidate and sum up the incidents of the war and create a nexus between the events of the war and the after effects of it. The letter has inspired O’Brien which led to the summation of the story telling with his own experiences and made him throw light of the traumatic experiences that he had