Going after Cacciato?

Question

what is the point of this story? What is it trying to telll the reader?

could it help answer the question "why is there evil in the world?" ?

Answer 1

Going after Cacciato is a really complex novel.  That complexity makes it nice when falling to the question of "what is the author trying to tell the reader," because you can support many ideas.

Here are some things you might want to look at:

The "simplest" thinker leads everyone out of the war.

Escaping the geographical location of the war didn't necessarily make things better.

The smell of death surrounds them just about everywhere they travel.

They become "ghosts" at the end with no one really recognizing their existence.

Personally, I'd go with something like "O'Brien helps the reader understand the totality of war involved even when the war is limited to the individual."

I'm not sure what you want with the "why is there evil in the world?" part of your question, so I'm laying off that.

Answer 2

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