Throughout the book, the author reveals that few of the details appearing in the story are true. Additionally, Tim O'Brien also has a tendency to repeatedly exaggerate his stories so that each time he tells them they have different meanings when in reality they all focus on the same idea . For example, from the description of the corpse, we all know that O'Brien had killed a young man in combat. However, he continues to repeat this story in more than three chapters and each time the descriptions are both different and similar in some details. On the one hand, the author goes directly to the description of the body. For the other, the author adds vivid images to the story to make it more lively. Regardless, the story ends with a conclusion about the horror of the corpse. Subsequently, the author confesses: “...twenty years ago, I saw a man die on a path near the village of My Khe. I didn't kill him. But I was present, you see, and my presence was already guilt enough” (179). Basically, O'Brien said he was writing a story that never happened. Yet, with the help of hyperbole, he managed to make the story so realistic, as if it had happened. But the truth was that “…there were a lot of bodies, real bodies with real faces, but I was young at the time and I was afraid to look” (180). To put it differently,