#5

I agree with O'Brien in this aspect, sometimes the facts just have to be written down. The process is like removing a large weight. The story truth is a solid entity it doesn't change, once a story is written down it is there for good, the happening truth is biased based on who is experiencing it and it is constantly changing. "The Lives of the Dead" tries to express the sickness of the human condition after it experiences the trauma of war and also to express the fact that people are inherently mean and evil. The story of Linda illustrates the fact that death is horrible and unfair and it shows how people turn a hard heart towards death as a way of coping. Linda is the symbol of all that is innocent and good in this world and how people kill or destroy all the positives in the world without meaning too.