The two stories, “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway and “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien, have two different writing styles that impact the reader in different ways. The main focus of this essay is to compare and contrast the writing styles of the two stories. Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” is about a man in conflict with the past and present events in his life. A young man, …showed first 75 words of 864 total…

…showed last 75 words of 864 total…on his experience during the Vietnam War and through the eyes of the soldiers, one is directly connected to the true atmosphere of the battlefield. The two authors of these two stories have similar writing styles. Both authors tell a war story based on self experience and through the soldiers that were actually in the war. Their writing styles were unique but served a good purpose of reflecting the author’s thoughts in the stories.