If I Die In A Combat Zone
Submitted by jgerst on May 15, 2008
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Tim O’Brien- If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Tim O’Brien knows that no matter how much he educates people on the effects of war and how much it hurts a person psychologically, physically and emotionally that people will still feels the same things about war such as fear and hatred and he can not change human emotions. In spite of this, he attempts to turn his chaotic memories into a coherent story that someone can pick up, read, and get a message and just a good story out of his experiences. But as he says in his novel If I Die in a Combat Zone (Box Me Up and Ship Me Home), “all I am left with are simple, unprofound scraps of truth... Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories”. O’Brien’s “scraps of truth” morph into an excellent story, but is that all it is...