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"the grenade had me frozen". pg 131

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"I remember his face, which is not a pretty face, because his jaw was in his throat, and i remember feeling the burden of responsibility and guilt" (179).

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O'Brien had told us, that there is a difference between happening-truth, and story-truth. and that sometimes story truth can be truer than happening:
"'Daddy, tell the truth,' Kathleen can say, 'did you ever kill anybody?'  And I can honestly say, 'Of course not.' Or I can honestly say 'Yes.'"
(O'Brien 180)

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His continuous struggle, even as he writes, and how deeply this experience has imprinted on him is best shown when he states: “Even now I haven’t finished sorting it out. Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I don’t” (134 O’Brien).

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O'Brien contemplating what the enemy soldier that he killed would have done if he was in the same position.

"None of it mattered. The words seemed far too complicated. All i could do was gape at the fact of the young man"s body" (134).

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In the battle scene, O'Brien stated, "I remember the grenade seeming to freeze above me for an instant, as if a camera had clicked, and I remember ducking down and holding my breath and seeing little wisps of fog rise from the earth" (133).

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O' Brien is talking about the past stories in the book such as killing the boy and the in depth detail about his features ; "But listen, even that story is made up. I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth" (178, Tim O' Brien).

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 Significantly, in this chapter O'Brien brings the reader back to the fact that much of this book either is or could have been reality: "I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening truth" (179).

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 Significantly, in this chapter O'Brien brings the reader back to the fact that much of this book either is or could have been reality: "I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening truth" (179).

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When giving his explanation for the fallacy of his stories and explaining differing truths, O'Brien stated, "I'm left with faceless responsibility and faceless grief." (180).

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After throwing the grenade at the soldier O'Brien says, “I remember the grenade seeming to freeze above me for an instant, as if a camera had clicked” (133).

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When mentioning the story O'Brien told his daughter about him killing, he said, "Someday, I hope, she'll ask again" (131).

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After realizing just what he had done after throwing a grenade at the viet cong soldier, O'Brien had some thoughts and regrets: "It occurred to me then that he was about to die. I wanted to warn him" (133).

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As O'Brien reflects on his experience, he says, "'Or I can say, honestly, Yes'"
(180).

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When Tim is talking with his daughter, Kathleen, he's telling her all about the war stories he's been apart of and the ones that he barely remembers. The ones that are hazy and disjointed. “ Daddy tell the truth,” Kathleen can say, “did you ever kill anybody?” And I can say, honestly, “Of course not.” or I can say, honestly “Yes.”’ (O'Brien 180)

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While explaining the war, O’Brien states, “Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I don’t. In the ordinary hours of life I try not to dwell on it, but now and then, when I’m reading a newspaper or just sitting alone in a room, I’ll look up and see the young man coming out of the morning fog” (134).

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When describing the difference between happening-truth and story-truth, O'Brien says, "What stories can do, I guess, is make things present" (180).

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Thinking back to his time in war, Tim O'Brien regrets being a coward and not looking at the bodies of the men he killed, "and now, twenty years later, I'm left with faceless responsibility and faceless grief" (180).

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When O'Brien is describing his time fighting in Vietnam with his daughter and his daughter asks if he killed anyone. O'Brien says, " It was a difficult moment, but I did what seemed right, which was to say, 'of course not'" (131).  This shows how we lie to protect the ones we love.

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While describing the emotion he felt when he was throwing the grenade at the solider O'Brien writes, "I tried to swallow whatever was rising from my stomach, which tasted like lemonade, something fruity and sour"(132-133).

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After reflecting on his time at war, O'Brien admits to one of his internal conflicts at war, he says, "there were many bodies, real bodies with real faces, but I was young then and I was afraid to look" (180).

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When describing his war stories, O'Brien writes that "I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth" (179).

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When rationalizing the idea of killing this man, O’Brien thought, “I was afraid of him- afraid of something-and as he passed me on the trail I threw a grenade that exploded at his feet and killed him” (131).

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In describing his reaction to his killing of the man and others trying to comfort him Tim O’Brien he includes, “All I could do was gape at the fact of the young man’s body” (134).

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After describing how he "killed" the man O'Brien writes, "Even now I haven't finished sorting it out. Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I don't" (134).

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a true war story is never moral. It does not instruct nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior.... If a story seems moral, do not believe it."

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When explaining that the events in this book did not really happen, O'Brien states, "I want you to feel what I felt" (179).

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After Tim kills the man he tries to decide if he should forgive himself he says "Even now I haven't finished sorting it out. Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I don't" (134).