It's a story about the love of war, the love of brotherhood, the love of friendship, the love of family. It's also about what could have been and what couldn't have been. O'Brien focuses more on the raw emotions, but not only those of the soldier but also those of the audience. Different audiences ranging from readers who lived through the war to readers who arrived well after the war. With these stories O'Brien tries to tell us a story about his emotions. His real goal is to take his readers back to the war so they can experience the emotion of that moment. What I learned about Tim O'Brien's reasoning is that he uses fiction to tell his story. With fiction he was able to tell his stories from many points of view, even if the theme is the same the details are always different. With details O'Brien can evoke any kind of emotion thanks to his shape and the language he uses to speak. The more details there are, the more we readers feel the need to worry. Create the need to put ourselves in that person's situation. The need to feel pity for the characters, because that's how it is