War. No victors, only victims. In the heat of the moment, right and wrong are blurred to the point where nothing is clear. No story tells this better then Vietnam war memoirs “The Things They Carried” by Tim O'Brien where the lack of morality and purpose is meshed together to create something far fetched enough that it’s almost unbelievable. “To Tell A Perfect War Story” details two specific incidents, one about animal and the other man. These two incidents, through the power of O’Brien’s writing, create a story where what’s considered the extremes of terrible can be almost justified. His narration of them, how they differ and seem similar create “A Perfect War Story.” In a perfect world there is no war, no pain, no death or gore. No moments of loss or dispair. This is no perfect world. When O’Brien details the death of Curt Lemon, a close friend of his, he is not painting a picture of happiness or excitement, he instead created a mural of disbelief and strangeness. He tells Curt Lemons death as if it were a movie,complete with visual …show more content…
O’Brien’s attributes the buffalo to stress and the death of a Lemon, and surprisingly enough, O’Brien did the same with Lemon by not blame the Vietnamese, or anyone at all. It was simply a fact that Lemon had died, a matter of circumstance. As far as similarities go the buffalo and Lemon, both died out of their own circumstances, and are related by war. To go along with this similarity, O’Brien’s emotional reactions are also very closely linked in that they are sparse in both of these two events, and the few that is there is confined to unsureness and confusion. His narration creates a strange story where emotion, even though a central pillar of the book is used in his narration much less then what what is