Scott Ely in his essay “Random” wrote about his journey as a soldier, he began with the first day at the base, when he meet anther soldier that looked like him, he asked the soldier about Pleiku, the place where Scott Ely was heading, then he described the trip to Pleiku and the events that took place while he was there, afterwards he wrote about an archeologist that he meet, they shared a conversation about aircrafts and bombs that they were familiar off, at the end of the essay he points out the fact that once a soldier enters a battle field he is not the same as before. Ely used deferent technics to capture the reader’s attention, he used definition when defining spider mine when he said, “And there was the BLU-42, known as a “spider