On page 57 of The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien forwards that, “In a true war story, if there’s a moral at all [. . .] You can’t extract the meaning without unraveling the deeper meaning. And in the end, really, there’s nothing much to say about a true war story, except maybe “Oh” [. . .] True war stories do not generalize. They do not indulge in abstraction or analysis.”
After watching the films Cadence and Once Brothers, I’d like you to argue either FOR or AGAINST O’Brien’s statement. For argument’s sake, I want you to treat Cadence like it is a “true war story” and we know that Once Brothers is a biographical tale about two men whose friendship is torn apart by a war in their native country. So, is it really “impossible” to find any meaning in these stories without first “extracting” a “deeper meaning?” Do war stories truly not generalize? Finally, do they not lend themselves to analysis whatsoever (which is what I’m sort of asking you to do here)?
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