Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Old:
An example of this statement, is told in Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story", he goes on to say: "A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things they have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue " (1).

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Tim O'Brien, author of "How to Tell a True War Story", provides us with an example of this idea by stating,
"A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things they have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue" (1).

Old:
An example of this would be when Davidson and Lytle, authors of "Where Trouble Comes", had said in the text "myth deals with expectations rather than reality" (417).

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Davidson and Lytle, authors of "Where Trouble Comes" establish the difference between authenticity and myth by elaborating on this idea: "myth deals with expectations rather than reality" (417).

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