When Wes told us that he didn't even know his comrades names, he felt bad that he couldn't meet up with them after the war or go to the memorial on Washington D.C. to touch their names. This means that whatever nickname you were given during the war, that what you became. I think that the characters in TTTC are more connected to each other by knowing each others names but they are still at the same level as Wes in the war.
Tim O'Brien, intermixing non-fiction and fiction together to make a partly true war story works quite well. For one, It helps if you write about things you have had experiences about its easier to write about instead of a completely fiction story and you pull from your head about experiences you've never had. Also, it adds to the story it makes the story progress smoothly instead of just talking about random things that your remembering as you write about it. The story would be terribly fragmented and filled with random thoughts your remembering in the moment. Third, it makes the story would start to get stale and it would be much of the same thing, he would just have repeated experiences and it would just start to get boring. This way when he intermixes it, he can add a little spice to it. BAM! Lastly, I think it is very hard to remember back then and hes not quite sure what his mind has made up on its own and hes remembering memories hes never had. Sometimes the mind makes things up in place of things that were traumatic or things that you thought actually happened or that your mind wants to believe happened. It may be hard to get the real memories on paper because the fake ones may be more predominate than the real ones, the real ones might be more fuzzy.
QUESTIONS: 1:Why do you think the soldiers accepted Mary to be part of their group?
2:What things in the book do you think are made up?
3: What things do you think are true?
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