Just when I thought I have everything figured out, turns out I don’t. It’s hard to tell what is true is this book. The line between fact and fiction is blurred. Did O’Brien really kill a man? I’m not sure what to think anymore because of the things that he says. Is this in reference to O’Brien the character or O’Brien the writer? I think their stories are intertwined. O’Brien really needs to just be straightforward with his stories. He makes my poor brain hurt.
O’Brien waited twenty years to visit Vietnam. Twenty years to take care of unfinished business. Twenty years to give Kiowa a proper goodbye. I wonder why he waited so long. He brought his little girl along because he needed her to see what he saw. I think he had a tiny bit of hope that she would understand. Of course she didn’t understand, she’s just a child. It takes a certain amount of courage to come back to a place that he despised. It was a place where so many friends died.
O’Brien was really dedicated to his friend Kiowa. I think he also did this to help himself move on. The war never really leaves a person. O’Brien would still wake up with images of what had happened all those years ago. The way Kiowa died would never be right. O’Brien even had Kiowa’s old moccasins and dropped them in the spot where Kiowa probably died. It was his last goodbye to him and that river. It was finally the end of the war for both of them.
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