The idea discussed in both Tim O'Brien's "Ambush" and John Steinbeck's "Symptoms" is the after effects of the combat on the soldiers after a war is over. It talks about what the soldiers go through, their pain and their turmoil once they come back from having faced a war.
I believe it is a "Fused" sentence because it includes two main clauses. hope this helps
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dialogues and descriptions
In a working fiction, best place to look for supporting details that indicate the theme of fiction is in dialogues and descriptions. A dialogue is a literary technique in which writers use two or more characters participating in conversation with one another.