Make Your Bed Analysis

Writers William H. McRaven and Brian Kilmeade use Dialogue to portray the message of one’s prime character arising in the setting of conflict. In the case of these stories, conflict can be translated to war, but the ideas apply to anyone. In Make Your Bed, Army Ranger Adam Bates was struck by a pressure plate mine in Afghanistan. McRaven, the narrator, greets the man now with no legs and a severely swollen face on the hospital bed. “Slowly, painfully, he signed, ‘I will be--OK.’ And fell back asleep” (McRaven 102). Interestingly, McRaven’s description of Bates uses the word “painfully;” contrast this with the Ranger saying he’s “OK.” The utter absence of self-pity, and the refusal to complain is truly the best of an individual, exemplified …show more content…
After the despair inflicting loss of New York to the British, the truth struck him head on that “he would have to beat the British in a battle of wits” (Kilmeade 13). War is a mental game, that required intelligence and drive. These two factors are the subjects of the book that made the revolution successful. Following Washington's initial need for a spy, Captain Nathan Hale desired the position. In his interview with Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton asks, “You are a seasoned soldier acquainted with the deprivations of supplies and the stress of battle?” Embarrassed, Hale responds, “No, sir. I was a schoolmaster in New London and my teaching contract did not end until that July.” Just two questions later, Knowlton supposes, “You truly believe you can do this?” to which Hale asserts, “I have no doubt, sir, that I am the right man” (Kilmeade 21-22) Hale was sufficiently driven, but within 9 days of duty, Hale was sentenced to death for spying. Not experienced in spying, Hale valued the cause of his nation over his own life, demonstrating the character that exists in such conflict. Barely a year later, with Hale’s death in mind, Benjamin Tallmadge hastily joined the revolution as he was “swept up in the Patriotic fever”

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