“The Man I Killed”, O’Brien imagines what the man’s life was like before he came to the war. The whole time, Tim O’Brien seems to be in a state of shock and he goes back and forth between describing the man’s life and describing the dead body. “Ambush” is set in the present and O’Brien is asked by his daughter if he ever killed someone. He tells her no then goes into a scenario in his mind of if she had been an adult; he imagines telling her of the man he killed from start to finish. Another post-war story, “Speaking of Courage” is in Norman Bowker’s point of view. He is driving around the lake of his hometown over and over again, stuck in memories of the war. He imagines telling the story of how he almost won a Silver Star and why he did