Finally, a text on war that I enjoyed! I'm in love with O' Brien's writing style; the way eh narrated the stories was amazing! I'd mentioned in a private post before that I'd love to interact with a war veteran and I guess this book comes pretty close to that. I think the first-person narration made the situations in the book seemed a lot more real. Everything that was happening was happening to either him or people he knew.
Another interesting thing that I noticed what that in the chapter "How to Tell a True War Story", all the points O' Brien brought up seemed to remind me of the movies we've watched. "In any war story, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen" , "A true war story is never moral" : statements like these made me ponder about the movies we watched and how the rhetoric of those war movies tried to depict situations as realistically as possible; to make it a "true war story"
One more part of the book that I'd like to point out is the baby buffalo sequence. I actually found myself PHYSICALLY cringing while reading that sequence because it was so heart-wrenching. I probably reacted to that scene in a way I didn't react to any scene I watched in any of the movies. I don't even know how to describe it because it was just so inhumane, yet a perfect represenation of human emotion at the same time. It's beginning to sound cliched to say that a scene is used to "depict the horrors of war and show how brutal war can be" but I truly think that that one scene serves that purpose in a way that no other scene did for me.
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