This allows the reader to see what is happening rather than what is perceived. O'Brien's main goal is to expose the subjectivity that resides in truth. To highlight a specific contradiction within the truth, he uses war to highlight this difference. He writes: “The truths are contradictory. For example, we can say 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 believe one truth and another person may see the opposite. To accompany this ambiguity within the truth, he declares: “Almost everything is true. Almost nothing is true” (77). It shows once again that the truth is subject to interpretation. There is no single, universal truth, but there are many variations. As previously mentioned, O'Brien claims that he honestly admits that he has never killed a man and has in fact killed someone. Here he states that there can be completely different answers that all seem true. Whether O'Brien had killed someone or not, he felt he had, but he could say no. It is this gap that proves that everything is relative. When it comes to telling a story, it becomes “difficult to separate what happened from what appears to be happening” (67). This is what causes subjectivity, the lack of knowledge of the situation. From