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STYLE
STYLE:
- humor
- vivid, evocative, descriptive
- plain prose, informal (Tim O’Brien)
- precise
- realism (“dirty realism”)
GENRES:
- memoir, autobiographies
- read like short stories, though
- no self-pity regarding his abuse & neglect
- short story (realism)
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STYLE
SUBJECTS =
- ordinary people
- dealing with problems of late-20th-century life
- (see also):
- Flannery O’Connor
- Tim O’Brien
- Alice Walker
- VIETNAM:
- soldier
- maturation process at war
- returning home & dealing/coping
- power of telling stories (romanticizing own life)
- see Tim O’Brien “Things Carried”
- (Vietnam, storytelling, ways to cope/deal)
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