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+In a short response, discuss how the perspective of the narrator impacts
+the story. How does [the shift from 3rd to first person] change the
+story?
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+
+Third person reduces O'Brien's proximity to the war and to his troop.
+When he talks, in the first chapter, about Jim Cross, he appears to be
+a completely unbiased or impartial narrator because most of the
+statements he makes are rooted in fact or related to a statement which
+is factual ("the things they carry" are often physical objects, and
+when they're not---like Cross's love for Martha, they're evidenced by
+physical manifests).
+
+First person narration loses the illusion of an impartial and completely
+"reliable" narrator. O'Brien's metanarration on how he doesn't want to
+write the chapter "On the Rainy River" or "don't mention---" with Cross
+shows that later chapters are more strictly his emotions and how he
+perceives himself and his comrades. Some components do remain the same,
+however. Mournfulness at Lavender's death is constant, and the war is
+treated as a terrifying occasion regardless of the perspective O'Brien
+uses.
+
+Also, in the first person chapters we've read, O'Brien's memories appear
+to be less sharp---like his inability to recall exactly what Elroy said
+as a goodbye and what he wrote when he was going to drive toward the
+border. This may be from the fact that it was a much shorter period of
+the time than the war, but it appears that his precise memory of the
+components of war (guns, tools, mines, memoranda) are significantly more
+pronounced because his memory is less clouded by emotion and repeated
+recall in the first chapter.