<span>The purpose of this passage is to entertain the reader by describing the author’s bad road trips. The author describes what it looks like in their trips during summer and how unlucky he is because he cannot win the game that is played by the whole family.</span>
I think Timothy Lean appears more "calm and collected" than the adjutant. Though he did not like doing things he had to do, he performed them well. He searched the corpse to look for his things. He lifted the body, with the help of the adjutant, and laid it on the grave. He said a little prayer over the grave. He continued covering the grave with dirt after the private got shot. He covered the upturned face with earth to completely bury the dead.