Refer to one or more details in Chapter 1 that describe the narrator's ideas about war both before he joins the army and when he finds he’ll actually be going into battle. Cite textual evidence that is directly stated as well as inferences you have made from clues in the text.

Some one drawing water and my theater placed my hand under the spout. as the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water , first slowly , then rapidly . i stood still ,my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers . suddenly i felt misty consciousness as of soothing forgotten --a thrill of returning thought and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me this passage from the stoyof my life is an wxample of which element of plotclimax action