On the book The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, he includes

I don't care, I wrote this off as BS in high school, and then I fought two wars and figured out exactly why it was bullshit: O'Brien is not telling you about his stories. He is repackaging the life of others and selling it as his own, and when caught he only admits to not having first hand experience with a majority of the ideas he presents. He tries to sell his bullshit as genuine by arguing that soldiers and war are some kind of absurdist construct that is open to interpretation and intrinsically comprised of falsehoods.

Write your essay about how much bullshit this story is by using O'Brien's own logic against him, and then forget you were forced to read this for whatever AP course you're taking.

>>9961600
My creative writing prof is buddies with Tim O'Brien. I've never read The Things They Carried. I just wanted to mention that.

>Reading this book
>It ain't me starts playing in the background.

saw this the other day at a used book store, only reason I noticed it was because we have the last name.

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>>9962844
Is that you, Chief?

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War-core book. The audiobook is also solid.

>>9963413
So like actually good and pro-war or what?

>>9961600
America has so many wars but no real good writers have come out of the recent ones.
Why?

>>9964928
Because chosenite imperial pseudo-conquest of shitskin strips of clay is not war.

>>9964928

Give me time, sir, give me time

Head wounds are described as star burst shaped--the accolades literally equated to a constellation of violence that unites humanity.

>>9961600
Well, he also said that just because a story did not happen doesn't mean it is not true. Funnily enough changed my way of writing in a peculiar way, if subtly.

>>9961675
The Vietnam War was an absurdist construct tho.

>>9961675
You haven't read many war novels, have you?