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Many authors have written war stories and about the effects of war on a person. Two of these writers are Tim O'Brian and Ernest Hemingway. O'Brian wrote "How to Tell a True War Story"; and Hemingway wrote a short story called "Soldier's Home". Both of these stories illustrate to the reader just what war can do to an average person and what, during war, made the person change. The stories are alike in many respects due to the fact that both authors served time in the army; O'Brian in the Vietnam War and Hemingway in WWI. However, the stories do have differences due to the slightly different themes and also the different writing techniques of the authors.
The stories are alike more than different because they both involve young men going to war and having to face the atrocities war. In "Soldier's Home", Krebs lies and embellishes so much that after his return home it makes him sick to lie. This theme is backed up by O'Brian's story when he says that in order to make a war......

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