"Some dumb thing happens a long time ago and you can't ever forget it." -pg. 175
For O'Briens' daughter it seems that it should be very simple for him to just move on. That is what he is trying to do through his writing. He realizes that it is impossible. This Passage moved me because the girl cannot grasp how deeply the war effected him, and neither can I. His daughter is only 10, and she doesn't understand the large amount of stress her father went through when he was only a bit older than her. A child's innocence is very revealing, and she is right in saying that he should forget. His conscience would be cleaner forit. But he would also be losing a great part of who he is today. So while his daughter finds it weird that he is so obsessed with the past, I feel that he is just trying to work his way through all of the emotional turmoil he endured during the war.
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