Tim O’Brien lies to his daughter when she asked, “You keep writing war stories,” said, “so I guess you must’ve killed somebody.” He lied to her to hide the truth about his war life feeling that she was too young to hear about these talk surrounding the Vietnam War. He firmly believes that his daughter will ask him this question again once she grows and I do agree with it. I think that his daughter, Kathleen, will ask him again once she comes to an age when she understands what situation push her to take actions. She will keep her thoughts and feel aside and think in her father perspective to understand the situation he was pushed to kill a 20-year-old man. The tinkering to ask the question again will come from surrounding people when they talk about this war and how many were dead and how many are alive. …show more content…
He feels guilty at the same time tried to forgive himself for his actions, he mentions, “Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I don’t.” That disturbance from the war “hunt” him, he mentions that the same 20-year-old boy comes down the fog and appears in front of him with a smile. This shows that the narrator has to yet come to terms with his actions that this incident was meant to happen for his safety and others. He keeps this tough close to his heart filling with guilt and regards in his life.

The narrator tells the story without spare the readers any of the graphic details of the ambush because he wants us as a reader to understand the situation men like him in the 1940’s had been called to serve their Nations. These graphic illustrates to remain how much has changed and how this war has contributed to change two Nation’s history If the narrator chooses to deliver the event without picturizing the ambush readers will consider him as a murder but the real perspective of the narrator on that day was demonstrated by graphic details about what