Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner Analysis

The speaker of the ‘The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’ is a young soldier who went to the World War II. It can be inferred that while he was home with his family, he had to go to the war. He was assinged to an aircraft. The line ‘’And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.’’ is a metaphor. We can say that he was a hitman in that line if we consider the shape of the aircrafts.

In the first line, the age is emphasized. It seems he had a family and he lived with them. We can say that the government called all the possible boys to war not considering how young they are. That’s why it says ‘from my mother’s sleep…’. They don’t seem to have considered of the ages of soldiers. They are kind of a killers as much as the enemy for sending