Class three and the second response

Continuing on with our consideration of genre, for Wedneday read the second part of Chandler's piece ('Working Within Genres'), Foucalt's preface to The Order of Things, and the (very short) O'Brien stories you can find among the links. Realize that there are three pdf files at that link, and try to read them in the following order: 'Spin,' 'The Man I Killed,' and then 'Good Form.'

When you've done that, write and post an analysis of these stories (and O'Brien in general if you know The Things They Carried), which specifically deals with the way that O'Brien breaks with the war story genre. That is, O'Brien writes in a post-Apocalypse Now, post-Platoon, era, and is well aware of a reader's expectations regarding war stories. How do these works undermine or work against those expectations? Be sure to establish to the degree possible what those expectations are, and then quote the details of the stories to show how O'Brien breaks with them both in his subject and his form.

One rule: In the response quote O'Brien at least two times, Foucault once and Chandler once (the second section).

And this week also write a one or two paragraph comment on someone else's response. Except (and here's a reward) the first person to post--whoever does that gets out of the comment