The Man I Killed Poem Analysis
The “Man I Killed” takes us into the Vietnam War and tell us about a soldiers first time of killing another human being. The author describes a Viet Cong soldier whom he killed, using meticulous and vivid, physical detail with clear descriptions of the dead mans’ wounds. Then O'Brien imagines the life story of this man and imagines the personal history of the dead Vietnamese soldier starting with his birthplace moving through his life, and ended with him enlisting in the army. It also details some of the dead soldiers’ hopes and ambitions. O'Brien uses this history in an attempt to make the dead man more realistic to the