In everyone's life people experience a sense of sin in their existence. With misconduct, or guilt this gets to people, forcing them to make actions that they once would have never thought of doing. This guilt overtakes people and makes them rethink their themselves gradually changing their insight and their feelings. In "The Man I Killed" O'Briens guilt makes him express the life of his casualty through his descriptions. O'Brien killing him with a grenade in My Khe, he describes the man's jaw by stating that it was "The man's jaw was in his throat.... his upper lip and teeth were missing. One eye was shut, and the other looked like a star-shaped hole". Looking at his victim O'Brien describes the man as his life is cut short. Thinking him as
