How to Interpret a True War Story

How I Interpret A True War Story The theme to Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story” is that no war story holds absolute truth though told to be true, for there is no point to the Vietnam War and thus no point to a story of the Vietnam War. You cannot help but come to this conclusion through the repetitive manner in which O’Brien pounds these thoughts into your …showed first 75 words of 375 total…

…showed last 75 words of 375 total…he somehow missed. With so much contradiction and confusion with the meaning of a true war story the reader can be led into thinking, “what is the point?” and this is exactly what I thought. “Often in a true war story there is not even a point, or else the point doesn’t hit you until twenty years later”, states the narrator. So maybe I will get the point twenty years from now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**