TIM OBRIEN ACTUAL EXPERIENCES AND HIS STORIES
Vietnam war has been one of the most controversial and humiliating militaryexperiences of the United States. While it was a military defeat for thecountry and the government at large, it meant something more for those whoexperienced it first hand in the battlefield. The war meant erosion andsudden loss of innocence, it meant deep and ugly scars on hearts and mindsthat even years of therapy couldn't heal and it also meant an apparentsuspension of reality. For those who saw the people dying in this senselessconflict and experienced their pain and suffering, life was never the sameafter coming back from the war. They remained in a state ofdisillusionment, forever wondering why this war took place in the firstThis confusion, persistent bombardment of questions, a barrage ofunresolved issues took their toll on the veterans and some completely losttheir grip on reality. For them reality was no longer what it was otherpeople. They had seen something horrible, which was definitely so terriblethat they must have questioned themselves if it really happened or whatthey just imagining the whole conflict. But this is not because they didn'tremember the truth but simply because the ugly nature of war ur
"Ishould have had the courage to say no; I was a coward for going toVietnam," he said. And later, he pretended, it would bemorning, and there would not be a war" (Cacciato 186). His stories serve an important purpose i. to show precisely what goesthrough the mind of a young man while he is witnessing the horrors of warin their very raw form. The real and close analysis of veterans' experiences during the Vietnam Warshows that none of them actually remember clearly what happened on thebattlefield. Cacciato's imaginary world becomes more real than thewar that was actually taking place right in front of him. Given what I believed, anyway, the rightthing would have been to follow your conscience, and I couldn't do it. This was theirway of denying the war as the narrator writes about Paul's denials: "He waspretending he was not in the war. But it is notvery often that we are given true account of war veterans and theirexperiences on the battlefield. 2) The authoralso said something about being extremely indecisive when the his came toknow of his recruitment: "I was crying with the knowledge that I'd be goingto Vietnam, that I was essentially a coward, that I couldn't do the rightthing, I couldn't go to Canada. Did you everkill anybody''" The narrator thinks for a moment and replies, "can say,honestly, 'Of course not. To uncover that is the task of fiction. Why,to this day, I'm not sure, I can speculate it.
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