In tim o'brien's chapter "ambush," to whom does the narrator wish he could tell his experience of killing a man?

In the chaper "Ambush" of Tim O'Brien's "They Things They Carried", O'Brien's daughter asks him if he has ever killed a man. She believes that there has to be a reason for his writting so many war stories.

He lies and says that he hasn't, but internally wishes his daughter was an adult so he could tell her the truth: that he did kill a man with a grenade on the trail outside My Khe.

the answer is:  

he is voicing feelings shared by all humans regardless of race.

in paul laurence dunbar's poem "we wear the mask," he replicates the words mask and we to emphasize how people in general -not just black americans- hide their true feelings. he suggests the masks cover people's faces and eyes, which are the main parts that display their emotions. he also thinks people's pain conceal behind those masks, so that they cannot see reality and nobody is able to see one another's sorrow.

- free verse.

- " in poetry, one of the best ways to practice technique is to write in. i want all to be unstressed so that “all the clocks” and “in the night” are matching anapests. many forms that sharpen skills are useful in free verse."