"Men killed and died because they were embarrassed not to. That was what brought them to war in the first place, nothing positive, no dream of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor Throughout Tim O'Brien's novel The Things They Carried, it is difficult to separate what is true and what is made up. of two truths, “event-truth” and “history-truth.” “Event-truth” concerns the actual events that occurred in Vietnam. his stories so readers can feel what he felt in each situation Even though it may not be what actually happened, it describes the true feeling of those who cannot be there for. experience it. Tim O'Brien has experienced many situations that many never thought of Although O'Brien has invented many stories, he creates images and ideas that make the reader feel what. he felt during his war. As an author, his job is not to tell what happened, but to tell the story where the reader feels what he felt going through the villages of Vietnam and fighting on the lines of forehead. For those who have never been to war, the feeling of hiding and being almost blown to pieces does not exist in their minds. They will never share the shared experiences that Tim O'Brien had during his draft. In each story, Tim O'Brien expresses a certain feeling. In the story "The Man I Killed", although the events never happened, the reader does not know it at the time. He imagines the story of the young man's life. The young man is neither a communist nor a fighter. He imagined the boy's life, which he enjoyed learning and avoided politics. "He [the boy] imagined himself covering his head and lying in a deep hole and not moving until the war was...... middle of paper ... g during the war Tim O'Brien doesn't. Write in black and white about what's true and what's not, but about the gray fog in between. Even though each story is distinct, they come together to. express how stories govern our lives. What is written in words is what others hear and are transmitted “What stories can do, I suppose, is make things present…I can make myself feel. new." Its main goal is to make a person feel what the characters are experiencing, but this is not every day. one returns from the war. The only way to preserve the memories is to write about them in a story. This novel may seem like a simple story about a platoon of soldiers in Vietnam. As the book progresses, the weight of the war. begins to linger on the reader. The powerful emotional content increases as the narrator has more courage to speak out about the horrors that happened..