This allows the reader to see what happens rather than what is perceived. O'Brien's main goal is to expose the subjectivity that resides in truth. To highlight a specific contradiction in truth, use war to highlight this difference. He writes: “Truths are contradictory. It can be argued, for example, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty” (77). The truth has two different meanings and it all depends on who interprets it. One person may think one truth and another person may see the exact opposite. To accommodate this ambiguity of truth, he states: “Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true” (77). Once again it proves that truth is subject to interpretation. There is no single, universal truth, however there are many variations. As previously mentioned, O'Brien states that he honestly admits that he has never killed a man and that he has actually killed someone. Here he states that there can be completely different answers that all ring true. Whether O'Brien had killed anyone or not, he had a feeling he had, but he could answer no. It is this discrepancy that proves that everything is relative. When it comes to telling the story it becomes “difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen” (67). This is what causes subjectivity, unawareness of the situation. From