In the chapter, "Good Form", why does Tim O'Brien admit that the entire book was made up, a "work of fiction"? How does this admission and then the following examples of made up stories that seem true help his purpose of exploring what is true and what is illusion?
I think that these questions are important in terms of the whole book because answering this question would help define the purpose of the book, which up until this chapter has been mostly stories that seemed true despite the warning of it being a work of fiction on the title page. If this question was answered, it might reveal that Tim O'Brien had a purpose intended for this book. He could have written it for the purpose of explaining how people accept things as true that feel true to them and what they know about the Vietnam War, which is a similar concept to the purpose of exploring the concepts of truth and story. These questions help to nail down the focus of the purpose of the book and Tim O'Brien's truthful seeming fiction.
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