Both Kinds

The 3 chapters from "Speaking of Courage" to "In the Field" all include some type of both internal and external conflict. The external conflict is that the soldiers ended up in the shit field and began taking mortar fire from everywhere and this is what caused the death of Kiowa. The internal conflict is what happened mainly after the war was over when Norman Bowker got home. He had to deal with what had happenned that night on the shit field and how he had to let Kiowa go and sink into the so-called land. Years after the war he had to deal with all of this internally. O' Brien is able to incorporate both of these very well into these chapters. I'm not sure if this is what he intended to happen, but to me, it represents all the soldiers had to go through before, and even after the war. For them, there was no escape.