In a chapter Tim O'Brien book, "The Things They Carried", he emphasizes how a war story should not leave the reader uplifted, since all of them are gruesome. Tim tells a story of a man named Bob Kiley losing his best friend, Curt Lemon. The chapter starts off by Bob writing a heartfelt letter to Curt's sister, and not getting a response from "the dumb cooze." Calling her this mean name already shows us how important every small actions means to a solider who has returned from war. Tim then goes into a back story of how Nom drove them crazy and how they played games using flash grenades. They would also have to sit in silence for a week on a mountain listing for enemy activity. After siting there for so long, they started to hear