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Guilty In Ambush By Tim O Brien

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Have you ever lied to your parents? Or took something that wasn’t yours? Even though those are small acts of indiscretion, im sure you still have some guilt from doing so. Now, of course there's bigger guilt in life than simple petty crimes. For the main instance, guilt of taking a life.Especially with war veterans and military personnel, that guilt is very popular, but does that mean you're guilty over every sition of death? In the story “Ambush” by Tim O’Brien,there's a soldier who was put in a position that he had to kill someone, even though it wasn’t his conscious decision, he still tossed the grenade at the unknown man. When reading the story “Ambush”, some would say O’Brien action were not his fault; however he is guilty of the murder of the man because he went throw the training, made the actions and tried to ignore what he did.
As an illustration, O’Brien is guilty because he made the conscious decision to train to kill. In the story, it was said “ It was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the …show more content…

“It was a difficult moment, but I did what seemed right, which was to say, “Of course not,””(O) O’Brien didnt make emends with his actions. He kept telling himself it wasn’t his fault and that the kill was right. Sadly, tht was still a human being, so it wasn’t right at all. It shouldn’t be kiil or be killed, but for most people it is. The fear wasn’t the thing that stopped him from throwing the gernade. Fear only came in after and he decided to deny it a cower, thus for only making him more guilty. He never tried to search out to find out who the man was, or if he had a family, or if he was really going to cause harm. An article states here about what the aftermath guilt can do to one. “Guilt plagues Bowker during and after the war, eventually leading to his suicide.”(Gale) This explains that it only makes you more miserable and guilty if you hide and ignore your

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