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The abstract idea that specific facts and events are inconsequential when looking at a theme or idea as a whole is used in the novels The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston.
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The abstract idea that specific facts and events are inconsequential when looking at a theme or idea as a whole is used in the novels The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston. Through the use of talk story, as in Kingston's novel, and the basis of a "true war story," in The Things they Carried, the respective authors use the idea to portray the true meaning of the work. Neither talk story nor a "true war story"1 rely on the truth, but rather on the impressions left by the story and the effect on the listener. Both Kingston and O'Brien use this twist of a story to fully develop the themes portrayed in their novels and get across the true meaning of their story and what they want the reader to take away from the novel. Tim O'Brien's novel The Things They Carried...
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