The Things They Carried
What does Tim invent about the man he killed?
In the chapter called "the man I killed"
In the chapter called "the man I killed"
O’Brien imagines what the man’s life must have been like. He makes up a whole fictional biography for his victim: He was always afraid to go to war, after hearing about the exploits of other war heroes in his village. He never thought he could be a hero, had avoided politics, was a scholar who loved math, was possibly in love with a classmate.