7. O'Brien tells the reader beforehand whether or not the story will have a happy ending. Why might he do this? According to the author, how do you tell a true war story?
A: O'Brien tells the reader beforehand whether or not the story will have a happy ending to prepare the reader for reality. According to the author,
"In a true war story, if there's a moral at all, it's like the thread that
makes the cloth. You can't tease it out. You can't extract the meaning
without unraveling the deeper meaning. And in the end, really, there's
nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe "Oh."
True war stories do not generalize. They do not indulge in abstraction or
analysis"
A true war story does not have a happy ending, it does not make the reader excited. A true war story is simple and short. O'Brien writes this chapter to differentiate between storytelling and his actual experiences. In an actual experience, you do not recall all events of what had happened. Story telling allows the author to shape how the readers should feel and can distort the actual meaning of an actual true war story.
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