O'Brien's Motive's Ariana

O’Brien’s reasons for writing the novel are most evident in “The Lives of The Dead””. In the “The Lives of The Dead” O’Brien tells us that during the war “[they] kept the dead alive with stories. “ O’Brien’s novel, even though it is fiction, is a part of history. The Vietnam war did not happen long ago, and the soldier’s who experienced the war are still alive. However some day the people who experienced the war first hand will not be around, and their children will forget their stories. O’Brien’s reason for writing the novel is to keep the memory of the war alive. O’Brien makes people more real even by the way he makes the truth more true. It is easy to feel empathetic to the soldier’s and the Vietnamese people after reading the novel. O’Brien wrote the novel to prevent other wars and conflicts, and to make people understand and relate to the way the war effected people involved in it.