“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details ...

“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” (Ernest Hemingway)

“I try to be as historically accurate as possible, but I think the story's more important than the history.” (Louis Bayard)

In the passages above the use of ‘s expresses, respectively, the