The Man I Killed Rhetorical Analysis

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Text Analysis How should you feel after you kill a man, could you go on, stop and think about your actions, either regretting or forgetting. Or just lie there thinking about every possibility, every scenario, even going to the point of imagining unconfirmed facts to ease the pain you feel. In the end it doesn't truly matter what you do then, because it's matters how you deal with it later in life.

Tim O’Brien emphasizes the action of killing a man and the repercussions it tolls on you for the rest of your life. He was able to deliver this message threw narrating his own experience of killing a man with such detail in the short story “The Man I Killed”. He felt motionless, observing

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