Read this excerpt about the vietnam war from the tim o’brien’s “good form”:
I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story truth is truer sometimes and happening truth
here is the happening truth i was once a soldier.
there were many bodies real bodies real faces but I was young then I was afraid to look and now 20 years later I’m left with the faceless responsibility and faceless grief.
Here is the story truth he was a slim dead almost dainty young man of about 20. he lay in the center of a red clay trail near the village of my Khe... i killed him.
what stories can do I guess is making things present.
I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grieve and love and pity and god. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.
“daddy tell the truth,” Kathleen can say, “ did you ever kill anybody?” and i can say, honestly,” of course not.”
or i can say, honestly “yes.”

how does the authors specific word choice in stylistic devices affect the excerpt stone? Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer