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How to Tell a True War Story Study Guide

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by Tim O'Brien
About 44 pages (13,265 words)
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The author begins the essay, How to Tell a True War Story, by telling the reader there is no moral in a true war story. The moral is so imbedded within the story that it cannot be isolated. If a person thinks he has found the moral he soon will find that he has only uncovered another aspect of the story. If the war story is true there is no sufficient rebuttal. A war story does not generalize wars, rather it tells a specific story. (read more)
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