When she was nine, my daughter Kathleen asked if I had ever killed anyone. She knew about the war
she knew I'd been a soldier. "You keep writing war stories," she said, "so I guess you must've killed
somebody." It was a difficult moment, but I did what seemed right, which was to say, "Of course not," and then
to take her onto my lap and hold her for a while. Someday, I hope, she'll ask again. But here I want to pretend
she's a grown-up. I want to tell her exactly what happened, or what I remember happening, and then I want to
say to her that as a little girl she was absolutely right. This is why I keep writing war stories:
The author most likely includes paragraph 1 in order to do the following:
To use a flashback to show how the story is a reflection of his past?
To show how the actions of the narrator affect his daughter?
To explain the author's motivation for becoming a writer?
To show how the author's narrative techniques make him a great writer?
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