Perception is not in black and white, it is multifaceted. From a philosophical standpoint, one can equate perception to staring out of a window; when one stares out of a window their focus isn’t in just one direction because many things could be happening at once. At the very beginning of Tim O’Brien’s, “The Things They Carried,” the narrator introduces Rat to the reader, and mentions that Rat is writing his fallen comrade’s sister a letter expressing his condolences:
“Rat tells her what a great brother she had, how together the guy was, a real number one pal and comrade. A real soldier’s soldier, Rat says. Then he tells a few stories to make the point…how her brother made the war seem almost fun, always raising hell and lighting up villes