In “Ambush,” which of the following events signals the beginning of a narrative within a frame story?Kiowa tells the narrator that the man would have died anyway.The platoon moves into ambush position outside My Khe.The narrator describes a man walking on a trail.The narrator’s daughter asks him a question about the past.
Which line signals the end of the narrative within the frame story?“He fell on his back. His rubber sandals had been blown off.”“Even now I haven’t finished sorting it out. Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I don’t.” “For me, it was not a matter of live or die. I was in no real peril.”“None of it mattered. The words seemed far too complicated. All I could do was gape at the fact of the young man’s body.”
How does the frame-story structure create tension?
Based on what you know about structure and sequence in this short story, why do you think the main character says, “This is why I keep writing war stories”?He wants to use writing to discover the truth about his experiences.He wants his daughter to hear true experiences of war.He wants people to know how bad war really is.He wants to explain why soldiers did what they had to do.
Which statements describe conflicts that develop because of the frame-story structure? Check all of the boxes that apply to the story you read. The narrator is not able to tell his daughter the truth about his experience.The narrator is not happy with his ability to write about the war.The experience of having killed a man in the past haunts the narrator in the present.The narrator recounts the traumatic feelings he experienced when he killed a man.
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