Literary Analysis

Literary Analysis

Introduction

In The Lake Of The Woods is a story about obsessive love, paranoia, infidelity and insecurity. The story is about a man named John Wade who suffers from multiple personality problems. John's problems seem to worsen after he unwillingly participates in the Vietnam War and volunteers as a conscript of havoc that slaughters humans in the name of his country. The novel deals with the harsh realities that the participants of the Vietnam War were forced to face in a war that left them tarnished both emotionally and psychologically.

Thesis Statement

Tim O'Brien's In The Lake Of The Woods is a riveting work of literature that explores the harsh realities of the Vietnam War and delves deep into the devastating effects that it had on the mental condition of all the American soldiers who participated in the war.

Discussion

Tim O'Brien is an American novel writer who was born in October 1946. Most of his works revolve around the harsh realities of the Vietnam War and the terrible impact that it had on all the US soldiers who participated in the war for their country. In the year 1979, the author was honored with the United States National Book Award for the genre of Fiction for his novel Going After Cacciato which was also based on the Vietnam War. In The Lake Of The Woods is another classic novel written by Tim O'Brien that deals with the harsh realities of the Vietnam War.

The novel In The Lake Of The Woods mainly revolves around the lives of two lead characters, John Wade and Kathy Wade, and the changes that they experience in their relationship after the Vietnam War (O'Brien, 2007). Even before John Wade participates in the Vietnam War, he has been described as a person who possessed an eccentric personality. These idiosyncrasies in ...