Comparison John Updikes AP and Timothy OBreins How to Tell a True War S

Comparison John Updikes AP and Timothy OBreins How to Tell a True War Story Although the pathetic stories, A&P, by John Updike, and How to Tell a True War Story, by Timothy OBrien, are both written in the proficiency of offset printing person narrative, the two stories are conveyed to the reader in very different styles. John Updike, who was 29 at the time when he wrote A & P, narrates his spirit level from the point of view of a 19 year old boy. The narration of the theme of A & P illustrates the scene of the grocery store in which the puerile boy, Sammy, is a cashier who witnesses everything that goes on during the day. The store is a theater, having numerous skits taking place throughout the day with no script. Sammy is in the audience where he came nevertheless observe the acts to catch up his own story and narrate the scene to others. Every important detail is observed through Sammys eyes and is expressed in the narration of his story of the A & P grocery stor e.Sammy sets the scene of a sunny, summer beach day in which three young girls garbed in nothing but bathing suits enter the store to buy some snacks for their day in the sand. Sammy is deeply intrigued by the girls and watches every move they make while ringing in other customers at the store. The girls parade through the isles as if they are putting on a show, just for Sammy. This is Sammys first live girlie show and he doesnt want to miss one single detail. Sammy expresses his excitement and fondness of one particular girl as he conveys the dilate of the one sceneShe has on a kind of dirty-pink -- beige maybe, I dont know -- bathing suit with a little nubble all over it and, what got me, the straps were down. They were a little off her shoulders... ... voices in the story, one for the part utter the actual war story to the other soldier, and one telling the whole story to the reader war story and its reasons.The paragraph following the descriptive tale of his two buddies foo ling around with the smoke grenades suggests this theory. In any war story, but especially a true one, its difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way...The story as a whole was written to share with the soldiers who were there with the added tips guidelines to help them tell their own true war stories, and have them be remembered, as tumefy as believed. The graphical depiction of the story is for the fortunate who were not present at the time of the war, who should always be reminded through out time how majestic and unnecessary war is.