"For years I'd felt a certain smugness about how easily I had made the shift from war to peace. A nice smooth glide - no flashbacks or midnight sweats. The war was over, after all. And the thing to do was go on. So I took pride in sliding gracefully from Vietnam to graduate school, from Quang Ngai to Harvard, from one world to another." (pg. 151)
This section entitled Notes is all from Tim O'Brien's personal experience. I kno that the information is coming from a reliable source because it happened to him. Therefore, every detail is much more believeable. Tim expresses his feelings about Norman's letter to him and how he was inspired to write a story about Bowker because it was a true after war story.
Most of this book was written in first person since O'Brien was there. Some of the stories came from other people, so these stories are a little less reliable when it comes to the facts. Sometimes first person point of view can limit one to only one persons point of view. I think this book was well written when it comes to showing how everyone felt.
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