Mythical?

In the excerpt "Where Trouble Comes" Davidson and Lytle speak in much detail about the way historical events are portrayed in movies. They also discuss the many choices made by the directors to make their movies more appealing and entertaining for their viewers. These choices involve making changes to some of the events that took place to make them more action packed. Davidson and Lytle also talk about the different views historians and directors have. Obviously a historian is an expert on history and will do his best to record the actual facts. However, directors are more into making their film into a big hit, disregarding the events that actually took place.

I believe that Davidson and Lytle would consider Tim O' Brien a historian to a certain extent. " I'm forty-three years old, true, and I'm a writer now, and a long time ago I waked through Quang Ngai Province as a foot soldier" (O'Brien 203). That quote best describes the fact Tim O' Brien actually took part in the war, fighting as a foot soldier. In saying that Tim O' Brien talks about many events in his excerpts, many of them are fictional but they are authentic. He actually wrote a whole chapter that was completely fictional, this chapter was called "The Man I Killed." In this chapter he refers to a soldier he killed and started to elaborate on the mans life as if he knew him. He went to the extent of actually give the man a year in which he was born and even his place of birth. When referring to those stories Davidson and Lytle would consider Tim O'Brien's stories to be mythical.