I believe that much of the story represented a definition of what the truth really is behind a war story. The narrator really fixated much of his attention toward different stories in which he experienced within the war, saying that his stories are all true. O'Brien's narrative explains that a storyteller has the power to shape their listeners experiences, as well as opinions. Much in the same way that the war distorts the soldier's perceptions of right and wrong, O'Brien's story distorts our perceptions of beauty and ugliness.
             O'Brien tells Curt Lemon's death as a love story. Even though many of the events, that were talked about throughout the story seemed to be very sad, and gloomy, O'Brien describes the scenery around Curt's death as something beautiful, focusing on the sunlight rather than the actual death, and sorrow. To the audience the story of Curt's death may seem sad, and depressing. When O'Brien begins to describe the beauty of the sunlight during Curt's death, and does not really bring much attention to the fact that his good friend had just died, the audience can really no longer understand what is considered to be beauty, and what is ugly within a war story. Thinking of Curt Lemon, O'Brien concludes he must have thought the sunlight was killing him. We can see that O'Brien wishes he could get the whole story right, to explain exactly the way the sunlight seemed to gather Curt and carry him up in the air. He wanted us to see and believe what Curt must have seen as his final truth, or even his destiny. The idea of O'Brien focusing on the beauty of the sunlight, and no so much the ugliness of Curt's death, becomes even more evident when O'Brien and Dave Jensen climb up the trees to throw down the various body parts of Curt Lemon. Throughout the whole time they are up in the trees, the two of them never even talk about the blood, or destr...