class with a viewpoint: The Things They Carried - up to p. 61

class with a viewpoint: The Things They Carried - up to p. 61:
I think storytelling is just that telling a story. Sometimes they are true and sometimes they are not true, but they are always stories. We all have our own story. I am often told to write my daughter's down, that she would enjoy having it someday. The funny things she says and does.(not that she is anything special except my daughter) I think about that when I am reading. Could this be true? Can this really happen to people? Do people really survive this? To know that parts of this story are true make this book more relevant to me and make reading it more enjoyable yet more amazed that these things really happen and people really survive.