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40: 207: 272: 232: 468:, O'Brien discusses the distinction between "story-truth" (the truth of fiction) and "happening-truth" (the truth of fact or occurrence), writing that "story-truth is sometimes truer than happening-truth." O’Brien suggests that story truth is emotional truth. In turn, the emotions created by a fictional story are sometimes truer than what results from only reading the facts. 512:
A perverse and outrageous double standard. What if things were reversed? What if the Vietnamese were to ask us, or to require us, to locate and identify each of their own MIAs? Numbers alone make it impossible: 100,000 is a conservative estimate. Maybe double that. Maybe triple. From my own sliver of
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While O'Brien does not consider himself a spokesman for the Vietnam War, he has occasionally commented on it. Speaking years later about his upbringing and the war, O'Brien described his hometown as "a town that congratulates itself, day after day, on its own ignorance of the world: a town that got
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created in previous stories. For example, "Speaking of Courage" is followed by "Notes", which explains in what ways "Speaking of Courage" is fictional. This is another example of how O’Brien blurs the traditional distinctions we make between fact and fiction.
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This demonstrates one aspect of O’Brien's writing style: a blurring of the usual distinction we make between fiction and reality, in that the author uses details from his own life, but frames them in a self-conscious or
433:, about his war experiences. In this memoir, O'Brien writes: "Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories." 355:
on October 1, 1946, the son of William Timothy O'Brien and Ava Eleanor Schultz O'Brien. When he was ten, his family – including a younger brother and sister – moved to
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experience—one year at war, one set of eyes—I can testify to the lasting anonymity of a great many Vietnamese dead.
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in the southwestern part of the state and serves as the setting for some of his stories, especially those in
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As of 2010 O'Brien lived in central Texas, raising a family and teaching full-time every other year at
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with the reality of the high number of Vietnamese war dead, he describes the American perspective as
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us into Vietnam. Uh, the people in that town sent me to that war, you know, couldn't spell the word '
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the year before his arrival. O'Brien has said that when his unit got to the area around
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O'Brien received the Vietnam Veterans of America Excellence in the Arts Award in 1987
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Participation in Pritzker Military Museum & Library's Military History Symposium
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In the story "Good Form," from his collection of semi-autobigraphical stories,
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In 2010, O'Brien received the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) from
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seem to contradict each other, and certain stories are designed to "undo" the
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described it as "a classic of contemporary war fiction." O'Brien wrote the
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A Crisis 'In Country': An Ecocritical Approach to Tim O'Brien's Fiction
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Upon completing his tour of duty, O'Brien went to graduate school at
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O'Brien taught creative writing, holding the endowed chair at the
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was named the Outstanding Book of 1973 by the New York Times.
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James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction
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continuing American search for U.S. MIA/POWs in Vietnam
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If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
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If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
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If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
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Lake Okabena
The Things They Carried

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