Truth

All of these stories explain truth in different ways that make sense to the story, of course, but the meaning behind each one is that not everything is as it appears to be. Nothing we see really there until we face it and see it with our own eyes.

In "How to Tell a True War Story" truth is never really explained to the point to which someone that is being told the story to, actually understands the real gruesome of how a war really is. I mean, sure you can tell a person how some of it was, but you will never really be able to make them understand all the hardships you went through so its a pretty tough challenge and obviously they aren't going to a war just so they comprehend you. In the story it talks how a squad of men go into war in Vietnam and all they do is just stay in some secluded area and wait, just wait for anything that they think is out of the ordinary, seems like an easy job but they aren't even able to talk to each other while they wait, all they do is just lay there behind a bush or something of cover and stay silent until anything of the sort happens. Then one time they hear a weird noise that seems pretty weird but they wanted to make sure it wasn't just some animal wondering around but then they start hearing some people talking and drinks being passed around so they just decided to call the air strike on the mountains which was where the noise was coming from. The air strike unloads on the mountains for a very long time and then it all becomes very quite , so quite that it seems almost as if the world had ended, there was no noise whatsoever. Now something like may help you picture somewhat of what was happening at the time but even then you still weren't able to really "feel" what all these people were going through.

In "The Wolves's in The Walls" truth is never explained to the person that wants to know it because the people that were close to her thought that it was too much too handle even though a person younger than her knew what was going to happen. The character hear wolves inside the walls and gets scared so she decides to go to her mother and ask is she hears it she tells her that she must be hearing things because if such a thing were to happen then "it would all be over." Now she doesn't know what this means so she asks her dad and he says the same thing, so she then decides to say this to her bother and he also says that it would all be over. Then soon the wolves do come out of the walls and take over the house and it really was all over because they lost their house. Not the whole story was told to the main character because the people that are in care for her think that she was too immature to understand such a thing so the whole truth was never explained to her.

In Dickinson's poems they talk about how the only real truth is God itself. "I Know The Moon" is showing how every animal in the story believes that the moon has a different shape and size to their own eyes. In the end truth is never just one single truth that everyone should be forced to agree on but instead a truth that if one believes it's true then it is what it is and if someone else decides that you are right then that person believes your truth.