Read this excerpt about the Vietnam War from "Ambush" by Tim O'Brien:
When she was nine, my daughter Kathleen asked if I had ever killed anyone. She
knew about the war, she knew I'd been a soldier. "You keep writing war stories," she
said, "so I guess you must've killed somebody." It was a difficult moment, but I did
what seemed right, which was to say, "Of course not," and then to take her onto my
lap and hold her for a while. Someday, I hope, she'll ask again. But here I want to
pretend she's a grown-up. I want to tell her exactly what happened, or what I
remember happening, and then I want to say to her that as a little girl she was
absolutely right. This is why I keep writing war stories:
He was a short, slender young man of about twenty. I was afraid of him-afraid of
something and as he passed me on the trail I threw a grenade that exploded at his
feet and killed him
Even now I haven't finished sorting it out. Sometimes I forgive myself, other times
don't. In the ordinary hours of life I try not to dwell on it, but now and then, when I'm
reading a newspaper or just sitting alone in a room, I'll look up and see the young
man coming out of the morning fog. I'll watch him walk toward me, his shoulders
slightly stooped, his head cocked to the side, and he'll pass within a few yards of
me and suddenly smile at some secret thought and then continue up the trail to
where it bends back into the fog.
How does the author's specific word choice and stylistic devices affect the
excerpt's tone? Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.
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