In Yusef Komunyakaa's "Camouflaging the Chimera", the soldiers are <em>B. Preparing to fight.</em> In Komunyakaa's "Camouflaging the Chimera", the narrator tells us about the effort that American soldiers did to look like animals and blend in. The soldiers in Vietnam made a tremendous effort to blend with their surroundings, just as animals do to avoid being attacked by other animals "We tied branches to our helmets. We painted our faces and rifles with mud from a riverbank,...". These efforts were made to prevent the enemies from seeing them and so that they could launch a surprise assault on Vietnamese troops.
They are fighting because they are rivals.
The excerpt that shows the low self-esteem of the
soldiers and their belief that being a soldier has nothing to do with bravery
from Ernest Hemingway's "In Another Country," is the sentence “ The
three with the medals were like hunting-hawks; and I was not a hawk, although I
might seem a hawk to those who had never hunted; they, the three, knew better
and so we drifted apart.”
