Tim O'Brien feels a great deal of guilt when he thinks about dodging the Vietnam draft. They physical and emotional aspects of dodging the draft made O`Brien fear fleeing the United States to avoid going to Vietnam. Ultimately he made the decision to go to Vietnam and honor his country. The people in O'Brien's life, and the opinions they possessed influenced his overall decision and later added to the shame and guilt he felt. “It was as if there was an audience to my life, that swirls of faces along the river and in my head I could hear people screaming at me” (O`Brien 57) O'Brien was guilted into staying in the United States because of the opinions of his peers, but at the end of the day the guilt ate away at him to honor the draft and serve his home
Tim O'Brien feels a great deal of guilt when he thinks about dodging the Vietnam draft. They physical and emotional aspects of dodging the draft made O`Brien fear fleeing the United States to avoid going to Vietnam. Ultimately he made the decision to go to Vietnam and honor his country. The people in O'Brien's life, and the opinions they possessed influenced his overall decision and later added to the shame and guilt he felt. “It was as if there was an audience to my life, that swirls of faces along the river and in my head I could hear people screaming at me” (O`Brien 57) O'Brien was guilted into staying in the United States because of the opinions of his peers, but at the end of the day the guilt ate away at him to honor the draft and serve his home