Which text from the short story “Ambush” by Tim O’Brien exemplifies the theme of soldiers’ reticence, or inability, to discuss t
heir experiences at war? 1.Later, I would remember, Kiowa tried to tell me that the man would've died anyway. He told me it was a good kill that I was a soldier and this was a war, that I should shape up and stop staring and ask myself what the dead man would've done if things were reversed.
2. When she was nine, my daughter Kathleen asked if I had ever killed anyone. She knew about the war; she knew I'd been a soldier. "You keep writing war stories," she said, "so I guess you must've killed somebody." It was a difficult moment, but I did what seemed right, which was to say, "Of course not," and then to take her onto my lap and hold her for a while.
3. I had come to a crouch. It was entirely automatic. I did not hate the young man; I did not see him as the enemy; I did not ponder issues of morality or politics or military duty.
4. But here I want to pretend that she's a grown-up. I want to tell her exactly what happened, or what I remember happening, and then I want to say to her that as a little girl she was absolutely right.
I have this same question but I feel like I have the answer. If you
look at the second choice it shows him say "of course not" in reply to
the child before he pulled her into his lap which shows his reluctance
to talk about the subject with her. And seeing as the "B" choice is the
only one with the number 2 as an option I would go for that one.
I would say, ‘if I can train myself to do this song, then I can train myself to say this letter.’ And so that has been a huge part of my own speech pathology. It’s why I included it in the inaugural poem.”
