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This 7 page paper compares a non-fiction account of Vietnam with Tim O'Brien's fictional account. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to unload their packs, but instead found themselves unable to unload and a population that only seemed to add to the contents they were made to carry. OBriens depictions are
raw leading many to wonder if his portrayals have any sort of historical accuracy. When one is judging historical accuracy of any given event in past time, one should keep
in mind that there is no history ever written which is completely accurate or truthful. This is not the fault or attributable to the base nature of the historian, but
rather a realization that even those who report incidents as eyewitnesses filter the story with their own understanding, prejudices and experiences of the event. This may very well have
been what happened to OBrien. When Tim OBrien received his draft notice in 1968, though he opposed the war, he reported for duty and was sent to Vietnam. What he
experienced there as a young man seemed to grant him a perspective on the war from both the standpoint of a young man and an idealist, and from the standpoint
of a writer. What he apparently experienced there affected the way he and a whole generation perceived life, love and the American pursuit of happiness. In his book, The Things
They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in America the real world which suggests that their time
there seemed unreal to them, as if they were all caught in some large collective nightmare. To further this tone, OBrien shares some of the language that was used by
the soldiers. In some respects this could be a part of the unrealness of the time, in that normal language wasnt used to describe things. There were many words used
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