Summary Of Ambush By Tim O Brien

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Like most people that did or see something that know one understands they have “ the thing that they can't say”.In the story Ambush by Tim O’Brien, The author tells us of the time he was on a lookout and his training made him throw a grenade. With the intent of trying and killing his enemy.The war could leave soldiers coming home from deployment traumatizing and could also leave them helpless from getting help.
Of course, There is a lot of things that get blown off when you hear about war.But you really never think of what that person is thinking while in field and they have killed a man. There is no help to those who have been in the war and they see a guy they killed. Tim said in his book “ In the ordinary hours of life I try not to dwell …show more content…

There many sources for people who have a political idea of what is going on in the war. But the main important resources are the soldiers because they have seen it in front of them.But the people behind screens or other ways to see the war. A soldier's story by Paulette Tobin he talks about the trauma of the war and what he’s seen on the battlefields. He says in the story “ on the other hand, there were many ambushes like the ones described in that chapter event if they were invented, if it's still true”. It means that with all that we hear there are more than what meets the eye of the ear. There could be any story that could happen even if it's true or not. But there is no story but from a former soldier. But there are more than what kill people besides a bullet or a grenade. Tobin says a couple of sentences from the last quote “ I'm not afraid of the Capital T Truth,It seems to kill people in the vietnam, and its still killing people today”The truth shall set us all free and it won’t hurt if you just say what you want and not what you means.He wants those people that are in the war to come home and see what they seen and not to tell a lie that will hurt other people worrying about what's happening. All of this can help the world with what is going n in war and not lying to our faces and our brains when we read a book about what is going …show more content…

With this he tells us what she keeps asking him and what he hears every time he is with her. He tells the rest of the story about hope he throw the grenade at the man without even thinking about it. He didn’t think about it because it was all in the training that he did to prepare himself for the war. Tim I think is trying to ask people to see what is going on in the world and not just on a screen or a radio but to look through all that and show us what really happens. At a place in Grand Forks He said this “ Part of me thinks we should suffer for the sins of war,dropping bombs,blowing off people’s arms and legs”. He wants everybody to know that we should all suffer from war because it is a bad thing to see. It really traumatises a lot of people and it really hurts those people that never get help that they need to pass this mind ruining thing going on in our world. With all of this you can see that war is a bad thing for the world and for people to see or hear. Most importantly there are many things that happen there are mental issues and people

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