The Meaning of A True War Story Some stories give us insight into other people’s lives and some give us in site to other people’s lives. When people read stories they show them something they have never seen before. Tim O’Brien writes in one of his stories of how war destroys morality. He wrote the story “Where Having You Gone Charming Billy?” showing an example of how stories show true emotion. Stories can show us see things from a different perspective. Stories give us access to other people’s lives and give us access to our own lives. Tim O’Brien wrote a story of a soldier who was on a night watch. He had grenades lined up ready to use. When he saw a Korean soldier walking down the path he thought to himself “the reality of what was …show more content…
In the same story that Tim O’Brien wrote, and after the soldier had thrown the grenade and killed the man. He wondered why he had killed the man, he hadn’t deserved it. His buddy told him “The man would have died any way it was a good kill” video. This man was saying it is morally right to kill someone just because they are going to die anyway. War destroys a man’s morality. In a war story it can show us true emotions of a soldier. In a story that Tim O’Brien wrote called “Oh Where Have You gone Charming Billy?”. A soldier named Billy dies of a heart attack a new soldier who had been there for a day watched him die. He shows show his only true way of not going crazy “but he could not stop giggling, the same way Billy Boy Really died of a heart attack” book. He was laughing because he watched someone die in this he showed his only true way of covering up that he was scared. Some stories show us insight into other people’s lives and some give us in site to other people’s lives. When people read stories they show them something they have never seen before. Tim O’Brien writes in one of his stories of how war destroys morality. He wrote the story “Where Having You Gone Charming Billy?” showing an example of how stories show true