Ambush/ The man i killed

In these two chapters their is not really a narrator, only someone telling us the story, O'Brien also tells this story in third person. I think O'Brien chooses to write this way because he is trying to show the readers that it is to hard to write about yourself personally killing someone. It seems like O'Brien has a problem admitting to himself that he killed someone.

O'Brien knows many details about the man he killed, I think he knows all of these details because the person he killed had a special impact on him. Even if O'Brien didn't pay much attention to the man he killed after, he still saw him dead, for at least a second. Killing someone can be very traumatic, leaving every detail in your mind. I think the details that come from the man O'Brien killed are just details from every person he saw dead in the war.

sweetheart of the song tra bong

In the chapter " Sweetheart of the song tra bong" what transforms Mary Anne into a killer was that she became one with Vietnam. Mary got so involved in to Vietnam that she forgot who she really was. Forgetting herself doesn't scare Mary the way it scares the soldiers, because Mary can leave anytime she'd like to, but the boys cant. I think the boys are so scared of learning about Vietnam and putting themselves out there because the idea of home, and who they will be and what they will do when they get back, is all they really have to hold on to.

In this chapter O'Brien lets Rat Kiley tell part of the story, I think O'Brien lets him do that, so the readers have a perspective from another person. Rat tells the story well, and gives the readers more information to grab on to. I think Rat fits the criteria well. O'Brien does it better, but Rat still does a good job at it.