Three Messages From Ambush The Important Messages From Ambush Tim Obrien wrote a war story named Ambush. The intensions of this story was to tell his daughter, in the future, that he did actually kill people. That he bluffed to her saying he didn’t because she was to young and wouldn’t understand. Three messages from this story Ambush are; its okay to feel guilty, sometimes its okay to lie to protect others, and there is more to how people feel. In the story that the man was telling, he killed a man. He threw a bomb and it blew a young boy from his feet up and killed him. The man in the story felt so bad. It was a natural reaction and before he even knew what he was doing, he already threw the grenade. So he wrote a story about this man. He said that he did not hate the man. But he wanted him to move. What would the man have done if the positions were switched? Would the other man have blown up him as well? Or would he have spared him? …show more content…
But that they are in war and some things need to be done. He tried to comfort him so he didn’t feel as bad. As did the author when his nine year old daughter asked if he had ever killed anyone. He has PSTD, (post traumatic stress disorder) so it was a hard subject when his daughter brought it up in the first place. And the fact that she was so young asking a question like that anyway. So he replied, “ No “. That he hasn’t killed anyone. And then he wrote the story for her to read when she is