We continued to study the author's literary style of telling " a true war story" that is fictionalized. On the board , I first reviewed the purpose of the author's style- to make the reader feel what he felt ,not what the author experienced in reality. We then studied the next chapter and explored how the author elaborates on the function of writing- for him to objectify his experiences so that he can face them. This explanation dovetails to our discussion yesterday of why the author switches the point of view to the third person in certain passages. Next, we read together the chapter entitled"Form" wherein the author distinguishes "story truth" from "actual truth or historical truth." We discussed how and why fiction or story truth can capture what historical truth can not. Last, we addressed how the paradoxes of war mirror the paradoxes of fiction. Joshua tonight is rewriting a paragraph identifying the paradoxes of war-beauty and destruction- referenced in the novel