Based on what you have learned in this text, where is the line between fiction and nonfiction drawn? Why is it important to know what is true in this text?
The book is stylistically unique not only because of its sui generis status regarding fiction/non-fiction and novel/short stories, but also because of its voice. There is only one “I,” the first-person narration of the fictional Tim O’Brien. But an omniscient narration gets into the minds of many of the other characters as well, and we only read metaphors they would think, only have access to words they would know. O'Brien finds more truth in a fictionalized version of events that allow him to build a greater sense of mythic truth that is often missing in non-fictional accounts of the war.
