Authentic or Mythical?

In "Where Trouble Comes" by Davidson and Lytle the short story describes how producers change the facts in order to make the movies more interesting. The story consists of different movies and describing how everything is dramatized. Davidson and Lytle stated, "The historical "reality" presented by dramatic films is radically different from that of a letter or diary, or even from a secondary account like The Jungle" (403), giving us an understanding that there are different forms of reality. Its not only the factual data included. The short story "Spin" by Tim O' Brien from The Things They Carried is the total opposite. Tim O' Brien was in the actual war and witnessed everything he wrote. The use of "I" is very powerful because it shows the reader Tim O' Brien was present. Davidson and Lytle would say that O'Brien is a mythical writer. "The war wasn't all terror and violence. Sometimes things could almost get sweet" (O'Brien 35), shows that when talking about a war its not all about negative. One of the paragraphs in "Spin" describes how it was a ritual to play cheeckers every afternoon. O' Brien states the positive parts of the war and leaves more of the negative parts.