By saying “stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are”, this means that stories are sometimes all people have. Without memories all you have are stories.. and memories are what make those stories. Sometimes our past, whether it is a good one or a bad one, has consequences. Your past is basically what makes who you are today and the things you must overcome. The soldiers in this war were all there for many different reasons and all have such different personalities. Each one of them has their own past and way of thinking. In fact throughout the novel you see that each person is carrying certain things for their own specific reasons. For example, as you first read, Lt. Jimmy Cross carries letters and eventually a pebble that Martha sends to him because he is so in love with her. You make your own stories with your own past, for Tim O’brien. I have many experiences, but what I tend to remember the most is the places I have lived and visited in my past. I used to live in Uruguay and go to school there as a little girl which always seems to come up when I am talking about myself to people. The ambiance and just about everything there was positive and loving. Probably one of my biggest memories would have to be of me visiting India this past summer. Man what an experience! This has been my biggest culture shock yet. You notices that the people in India have almost nothing, some even have no shoes but as long as they have underwear and food they are perfectly fine. Some choose not to even wear shoes because they would rather not kill bugs with their shoes. That to me shows so much about the people that they are and how ungrateful and spoiled us Americans truly are.
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