Wartime Stories Serve as a Medium to Communicate Unspeakable Scenes in the Battlefield
Wartime Stories Serve as a Medium to Communicate Unspeakable Scenes in the Battlefield The scenes of a battlefield entail horrific and strange encounters that cannot be directly presented to an ordinary audience that lacks battlefield experience. Among the encounters include disturbing deaths more so deaths and the traumatic effects generated by the deadly encounters. In return, soldiers often find a friendly and conducive manner to disclose the unspeakable elements of the happening within the battlefield. The move helps create a picture in the mind of the audience of a typical battlefield without having to generate trauma or create fear among the listeners. Although O’Brien explain that a true war is not a moral story, I argue that wartime stories serve as a medium to communicate the unspeakable scenes of a battlefield, therefore giving the audience a different moral lesson. Under the section “How to tell a true war story” O’Brien adequately presents the happenings of a battlefield in a friendly way which offers the audience a lesson on how to presents a traumatic scenario in a friendly manner. The…