“How to tell a true war story” & “love”
The chapter “how to tell a real war story” talks about how people don’t believe in war stories and mostly how to tell a real war story, it talks about how people believe the normal and not the crazy part of a war story even if it’s not true, O’Brien says that if the story embarrasses you then you know it’s real. There’s another chapter of the book which is called “love” and its mainly about Jimmy Cross being in love with Martha and how she couldn’t love him. There’s something about war that’s similar about love, there’s something about “how to tell a true war story “that’s similar to "love". Love stories and experiences are just like war stories, you don’t want to talk about embarrassing moments even if they are real, you don’t want other people to think that you are crazy so therefore you don’t tell it or you make up another storyor tell half of it and the nother half you'll keep it to yourself. Just like O’Brien pointed it the story, that every time you tell a war story you just keep on adding to it, you make up something else. Same thing with love every time you tell a love story something new comes out. In the chapter love Jimmy dreams about Martha, he mostly thinks about doing things he should have done that he never did. Just like war you sometimes wish hadn't exist for you, and for some people war is wished not to exist either. For those who go war when they come back, that's if they come, they wish they never had gonne, for those who are in love, when everything is over they wished it never had happen but its too late and there's nothing left to do. I see war and love very similar to each other and each of them have something in common, the only difference is that in war you'll probably die, but in love you wont, or at least I've never heard of someone dying from crying.
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