O´Brien´s story telling techniques revealing psychological repercurssions of war:

Tim O´Brien´s story telling techniques are quite unconventional as they include repetition and contradiction to name a few examples. Although, regardless of his unique style, he shows a huge amount of honesty and is able to develop a clear picture in the reader´s mind as far as how the locations look, smell, and feel like. He is able to make the characters he mentions relatable and helps us understand or have an idea on the way they feel, or felt like, in a particular point in their life.

Every detail of explanation when O´Brien attempts to make clear certain feelings during certain events, he does it so well, it almost feels like you are there listening to the sounds he mentions, or seeing how in a matter of seconds life and laugher can turn into gore and quiteness, or notice the amount of frustration the characters show as O´Brien talks about what irrational yet honest things they said, or the crazy things they did as a result of a traumatic event. Thus revealing the psychological repercurssions of war in these people as their words and actions are explained in detail by someone who knew them and was there with them. Two key characters in his short story "How to Tell a True War Story" known as Mitchell Sanders and Rat Kiley are the ones in which O´Brien shows a clear focus on to point out these repercurssions as a result of war. Like when Sanders gives a detailed explanation of his perspective towards war giving contradictions that for emotional reasons make sense, and Kiley´s rage as he tortures a baby Buffalo following the death of his best friend, as well as his ranting due to writing to his death friend´s sister about how great her brother was without response. A clear picture of frustration and desperation, of post traumatic stress disorder as a result of war is thus depicted to us in a short yet incredibly well detailed story by Tim O´Brien, and I highly suggest reading it in order to have a better perspective towards what war really is instead of just sticking to the extraordinary and marvelous view built by multiple forms of propaganda in support of it.