Innocence of War
Krebs and the soldiers seem to share very similar emotions after returning from war. When soldiers talk about war, it seems to distract their minds from the realities of coping with traumas witnessed. War can leave the soldier traumatized. Young soldiers go into war with the innocence of youth but return aged and with experience. In war, the soldiers witness horrible traumas. In Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story" the soldier's seem to love telling stories weather factual or fictional. They realize that "War is grotesque" (O'Brien 555) and that "War makes you dead" (O'Brien 555). The story telling for the soldier's seems to ease the minds from realities they have witnessed. They tend to start some of the stories with "For example" (O'Brien 550), and "'God's Truth'" (O'Brien 551), also "I heard this one" (O'Brien 550). So it would seem that for the soldiers "its difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen" (O'Brien 550) as they try to cope with the disturbances seen during war. Krebs in Ernest Hemingway's " Soldiers Home" realized "His l
ies were quite unimportant" (Hemingway 153) no one was actually listening to his stories. During his return home he realized "nothing was changed in the town" (Hemingway 154) except he had changed. 1) who are "coughing like hags" (Owen l. As "He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning" (Owen l. He wanted her to understand he was very different. The soldier's in Wilfred Owen's " Dulce et Decorum Est" says "My friend, you will not tell with such high zest" (Owen l. For example, Krebs in "Soldier's Home" left "Methodist college in Kansas" (Hemingway 152) for the war in "1917" (Hemingay 152). They are telling other youthful soldiers that "In all my dreams" (Owen l. Being at war and witnessing the horrific events seem to traumatize his view of life while taking his innocence away. The Solders in "How to Tell a True War Story" realized that "War makes you a man" (O'Brien 555) before you have time to actually grow up. 15) you would not want to tell the whole reality of the war story.
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