ah. time to write a blog about the theme in the book! yay! i was reading around and it seems like i'm the only one that is enjoying the book. i just get a kick out of things that are depressing. is that sad/lame? you should let me know if you're getting a kick out of the book too......
anyway..........
at first when i began reading the book, it seemed like nothing special. O'brien merely tells these war stories that honestly, we don't know if they are real or not. he even states "in a true war story nothing is ever absolutely true."(82). however, i think this applies to any story ever told. like not every one believes that i got pulled over by a cop just so he could tell me that he liked my snuggie. (it seriously did happen) unless one has been in the same situation, the story in a way looses validity.
life: it’s like a bunch of little stories combined into one complete book. experiences create individual metanarratives not necessarily true to all. obviously it’s only definitely true to that one person. take my snuggie story for example! truth is what you believe in your heart…it’s what is true to you.
what you experience is all about perspective. perspective is personal and biased. thus you cannot covey the "truth" no matter how hard you try.
i would go into further detail but i have fallen behind in reading. i'm still of "Friends."
1 comment:
I totally agree with you I think this book is really interesting cause it’s so out there. I like how each chapter is a new weird story completely different from the last one. I thought it was very insightful how you related Postmodernism to the true war stories concept. I guess what you experience really does determine the degree of craziness you believe. BTW, I find that really weird about your snuggie but I totally believe it cause some police office are kind of loony. Anyway, see you tomorrow:).
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