Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien felt that good stories about war shouldn't have a moral because then they wouldn't be true. I like how he put in that if a story has a moral you shouldn't believe it. So when you read a story about war and you feel uplifted or that you really got something from it, that its not true. He also says that truth in a story doesn't always have to be true in the sense that it actually happened because sometimes you need to add stuff and you can't always remember exactly what happened. For his story about war he felt that to get the truth and what mattered he need some time to organize the truth and whats important. A good war story is one that you don't see the point until twenty years later and sounds pretty unbelievable. Anything in a war story that sounds believable probably isn't true. The reality in story telling he says doesn't need to be true but could still be what happened, he says a true story that never happened. War stories are not supposed to be about war but the friendship and love in it. Stories don't always have to have a point or a moral to be a good story with the truth. The way he wrote in the "The Things They Carried" I didn't care for the story at all but could picture it being very true and with reality in war.