"The Truth In Things" Hmm sounds like a contradictory statement Mr. Neilson maybe its time to read Postmodernism for beginners!

Well, I'll start this off with; Yes this was very hard to begin and very hard to stop reading in my opinion. To summarize the gist of this passage I shall start off with a quote. "Vietnam War seems at times to have been waged more against totality than against the peoples of Indochina. For many critics and theorists, the war cannot be represented adequately through traditional literary modes; only a postmodern aesthetic can convey something of the war's surreal, sense-shattering, media-inflected nature." The gist of this article is that it comments on O'Brien's tendency to stick to Postmodernism also to sway from it. As in the quote it starts saying that Vietnam War was a postmodern warn, made to question the truths, but he continues to say that Postmodernism also gives voice to those without one. How ever he criticizes O'Brien saying "With its lack of interest in the plight of the Vietnamese and its focus on the psychological suffering of one American veteran, The Things They Carried, like almost all other Vietnam War novels, has in its small way furthered this process of forgetting." However I would disagree with Jim Neilson, in that i do believe he devotes an entire chapter to "The Man I Killed" on this single man he killed strangely he admits to this but does not satisfy Neilson saying "Consistently undercuts it by emphasizing textual artifice: he was "a scholar, maybe. . . . He had been born, maybe, in 1946 in the village of My Khe" (139). However this may be just a small story within the whole novel of stories but the heavy emotions he keeps with it I do believe O'Brien attempts to convey his emotions in this chapter, by both showing the disconnected soldier and himself creating a narrative for the poor fellow dead due to his gernade. However if you relate this back to Maus when is it the right time to stop bringing up a subject as a reporter asked Spiegelman, Why should the german's of now be sorry and repentful when they weren't even involved. Well that will be all for tonight folks :)