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Comparison John Updikes AP and herds grass OBreins How to Tell a True War Story Although the short stories, A&P, by John Updike, and How to Tell a True War Story, by Timothy OBrien, are both written in the proficiency of first of all person narrative, the 2 stories are conveyed to the reader in rattling different styles. John Updike, who was 29 at the time when he wrote A & P, narrates his point from the point of view of a 19 year older boy. The narration of the tosh of A & P illustrates the scene of the grocery come in in which the teenage 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 only observe the acts to make up his confess story and narrate the scene to others. Every important detail is discover through Sammys eyes and is expressed in the narration of his story of the A & P grocery store.Sammy sets the scene of a sunny, summer border day in which three young girls dressed in nonentity yet 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 tour 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 bingle detail. Sammy expresses his excitement and fondness of one particular girl as he conveys the details of the one sceneShe has on a kind of dirty-pink -- ecru maybe, I dont know -- bathing suit with a little nubble all over it and, what got me, the straps were d throw. They were a little sullen her shoulders... ... voices in the story, one for the part telling the actual state of 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 hi s two buddies fooling around with the smoke grenades suggests this theory. In any war story, but especially a true one, its difficult to separate what bumped 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 well 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 terrible and unnecessary war is.