In Daniel Chandlers, "Working With Genres" he tries to portray to the reader how working with certain genres can give the reader a better understanding of how a text can be read. In Chandlers piece he states,"Genres are not simply features of texts, but are mediating frameworks between texts, makers and interperters." However some say genre can influence how a text is read which would question Chandlers theory. Chandler also states that "Genre offers an important way of framing texts which assists comprehension." Neale states that you can define the word 'genre' as a set of expectations. Those are some of the ways Chandler and other authors define 'genre' and how it can alter a readers viewpoint of a story .
When reading Obriens' short stories "Spin", "The Man I Killed", and "Good Form" you can see the main genre of all three short stories is war. In all three pieces O'Brien is rekindling all of his war moments that he has been apart of, hence the genre of a war story. He doesnt go into all the killing, fighting and bloodshed that you would normally see in a war story. He talks about how many peoples life are affected by being apart of a war. Through all these pieces O'Brien is remeniscing about the past. As he states at the end of the final piece "Good Form", "I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pitty and God. I can be brave. I can myself feel again." That quote shows how O'Brien isnt trying to show the reader the gruesome effects of war but how war is a 'Field Trip' and how it has a weird 'Spin' on your life. By reading O'Briens story and relating it to Chandlers "Working with Genres" you can see how some points that are made could be true, and also not so true after reading all the pieces.
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