Thursday, January 15, 2015
Writing Style Of Spin
Tim O'Brien writes the story, "Spin", in a fashion filled with anecdotes and fragmented, scattered memories of the Vietnam War. O'Brien skips around from different stories and memories from the past and the present. For example O'Brien skips from a story of Sanders picking and mailing his to the killing of Ted Lavander's adopted puppy. I believe O'Brien writes in this style for two reasons. The first reason being in order to avoid reliving old thoughts and memories and the second reason is because O'Brien has repressed these awful stories and memories of war for the past twenty year that he doesn't know how to explain them in a logical sense. O'Brien's shift in time can also reflect PTSD. Often times victims of PTSD think is a circular pattern rather than linearly. O'Brien's method of story telling transfers from the past to present therefore reflecting a circular method of thinking.
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The soldiers who read these stories most-likely take totally different meanings from them. The puppy may have just been a casualty of war, which is why some of the soldiers are so apathetic to its death. To us the death of the puppy is a travesty. To them its just another part of life.
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