Ambush By John Berne Annotation

War itself is an armed conflict and soldiers being part of it endure things similar by both,the outside forces and with their emotions internally. In “Ambush” the narrator, through one of his war experiences, recounts how war is the propelling cause of many of the actions that soldiers have to take that they wouldn’t be submissive to personally. To showcase this idea, he uses conflict. The whole idea of war is always associated with something that holds great physical power but on the contrary another aspect of war is the power that it holds that is unseen and rather psychological, controlling much of the people involved in it. The narrator recalling the event of his encounter with the man he killed. He specifically remembers the very details of how the man “Seemed to jerk upward as

Additionally the narrator also rationales the fact that, when doing such acts he does not even “Ponder issues of morality” (Line 30-31) urging that a war scene is so rapid and its ability to engulf one’s moral and ethics is so immense that the soldiers are powerless in front of it. Moreover the author also uses conflict to make the reader comprehend the idea better, that war does not only controls a soldier life during that specific time in war but also impacts their lives substantially later on. Referring back to the time where he had to make the very decision of throwing the grenade at his enemy. He gives an insight into his state of mind that even though he “Did not see him as enemy” (Line 31), rather he had perplexedly “Already pulled the pin on a grenade” (line 30). To propose the idea that his actions were entirely automatic. He