How to Tell a True War Story by Tim O'Brien is another beautiful example of truth in postmodernism. In this text, O'Brien gives the reader what he actually believes about war, his truth, in ironic situations. He sets up fake situations with generals and soldiers to argue a real point about the meaningless of war. When reading this story, the truth is unknown. I was certainly asking myself, "what is really true and what isn't?"
Here, postmodernism is again outlined with the question of truth. Postmodernisms main point about truth is that it does not exist. It cannot be found, and it cannot reached. Trying to put guidlines or truths to life, is merely limiting something that is truly endless. This is what O'Brien has shown in his text. The truth of this is story is endless because nothing is known to be true or untrue.
This post is misguided. You seem to be describing Catch 22 at first. Your later comments are relevant, but you need examples from the text to support your comments. You needed to put much more research and effort into this.
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