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How to Tell a War Story

How to Tell a War Story. The Things They Carried. True war story embarrasses you. It has an absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. It is difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. A true war story is never absolute.

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How to Tell a War Story

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  1. How to Tell a War Story The Things They Carried

  2. True war story embarrasses you. It has an absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. It is difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. A true war story is never absolute.

  3. You can tell a war story is true by the questions you ask. If it matters if the story is true or not, then it is true. The crazy stuff is true and the normal stuff is questionable. Can not extract a moral from a war story without unraveling the deeper meaning behind the war itself.

  4. What is War? Hell Mystery Terror Adventure Courage Discovery Holiness Pity Despair Longing Love Nasty Fun Thrilling Drudgery Grotesque Beautiful Horrifying Majestic

  5. Project You are going to write about a moment in your life that you can apply the principles of “writing a war story”. This story needs to be between 3-4 pages long- minimum. You need to include the different aspects of the art of telling a war story outlined in these slides. The moment should be a vivid memory for you. Find a common theme to focus your story around. Characters need to be developed and integral part of your story.

  6. Themes of Your Story Fear & Death: confronting death does one become more alive? Or does constant fear bring on kind of a living death? Coming of Age: war is fought by young men- in combat boys become men. Love & Comradeship: soldiers serving together often experience solidarity not found in any other human experience. From this “brotherhood” many discover their strength of courage. Craziness of War: reality seems upside-down and moral clarity can become confused or war is simply just crazy.

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