O 'Brien's Sweetheart Of The Song Tra Bong'

O'Brien, on pages 80 and 8, talks about how people don't understand the full meaning of the truth behind a war story. There are so many things that go into a war that people and readers don’t understand,which is why he tries to explain why the “truth” and analyzing the meaning is so important. All of the things O’Brien describes in his stories aren't “true” per say because those are not what the story is about. In the end he tries to convey the fact that all are about prejudice. The stories are in fact about cheery subjects like: love, memory, happiness, old times, and no reader will ever understand because they themselves misunderstand. In “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong” Rat Kiley goes on about the story of Mary Ann. Rat Kiley warns his