You writer types," he said, "you've got long memories." Should we trust Tim O' Brien, the protaganist, to tell the stories truthfully? Why?
Tim O’ Brien who is the protagonist in the story is also the author, throughout the story he discusses personal experiences about his time in the Vietnam War but what can we believe? As humans we can’t always listen to everything we hear, and so when we read fictional novels we have to think what he is basing the facts on. In this instance Tim O’Brien bases the story on experiences; however he does tell us not to believe some war stories because to tell a good one you must change some factors in it. I feel like we should only trust what we want to believe, if we want to believe all the deaths that occurred during the war, then we can choose to trust his stories about death. Nevertheless we may choose not to believe the stories O’Brien tells us of since everyone has a right to their own belief.
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