They even fantasize about killing the sniper in the most brutal of ways, “He will hold his trembling hands on high and stammer the international word for compassion and mercy. He will say that beautiful word comrade, a word born in suffering and sorrow, but we will stab him down with our bayonets.” This shows the resentment for the sniper and how mercilessness the men have become, by literally wanting to kill a soldier begging for his life. Before the war these men even in their worst nightmare would not do such a violent and barbaric act, yet they all have the intense desire to do so. Not only do the men resent the enemy they begin to resent each other. Clark has no respect for his troops and this leads to resentment towards himself.
So he feels he's unworthy of showing her, his remorse because he never tried to help her in the first place. So basically you can't feel sorry in a situation when you didn't try to help in the first place. "No wants the coat they were shot in, even if it were possible to wash out the blood and mend the holes. It was a nice coat when she wore it. Now it doesn't look like much to him.
However, we learn that the word has no meaning to the soldiers as they would kill the sniper and any German soldier. This is meant to show the reader how brutal they have become. They were innocent conscripted men at the start and now they have turned
“If you just stayed with him, Kept an eye on him, loved him, he wouldn’t get into trouble.’ It’s because of Beryl Harley gets into strife. She doesn’t care what he does and she doesn’t even look out for him or keep him out of trouble, she seems to dump the load of Carl. But other characters like Skips, Sarah and Kerry are held back from experiencing a rite of passage. Skips was prevented from for filling his career because of Carl’s grandfather. Kerry hasn’t completed her transition in being a mother.
Huck questions why he has not turned in Jim because he wants to be what society depicts as good, but in reality, he does what he knows is right. While Huck is on the raft alone, he begins to question why he helps Jim escape while Miss Watson has done nothing wrong to him. Huck feels terrible but he cannot bring himself to pray that he can do the right thing. “I was trying to make my mouth say the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger’s owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie-and He knowed it. You can’t pray a lie-I found that out” (Twain 227).
If the creations are indeed “more human, than human” what defines our humanity? The replicants are portrayed as the violent antagonist only once compared to the humans (Tyrell) do they become admirable. While the death of Tyrell confronts the audience the close up on Roy's face shows the agony he is in. He doesn’t enjoy the killing but believes that his father must pay for his sins, pay for all the pain he has cause to him and his friends. Such violence is really only the cause of Roy’s pain, his emotions controlling his actions conflicts with our prejudice.
Values of Companionship Imagine a life with no one to talk to, being ignored, and being treated unfairly. This is how Crooks lived like in John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men. Crooks didn’t have any companions so he acted differently than the characters with companions do in the book. While Crooks was more independent, George and Lennie relied on each other. The importance of companionship is shown by the characters with companions having different personalities than those without.
Perhaps the man that shot the creature after it had saved a little girl from drowning would be a better example of being too quick to judge. All of the judgments seem to bring a negative effect on the judged. Frankenstein tells of the creatures payback to Dr. Frankenstein for judging his creation and not taking responsibility for it. The creature winds up killing several of the doctor's family members and his very close friend, Henry Clerval. In his search for vengeance the creature condemns himself to the internal suffering of knowing that he has taken the life of a person.
Cross is most angered with Kiowa’s death because he was a good person and that it was him to blame for picking a bad spot to set up camp. Jimmy Cross does not care about the war and has no desire of being a team leader. He has no ambition of being in the war, he just wants to get through it and receive his credits. He is too paranoid about Martha to be fighting in a war. He is always thinking about if she has boyfriends or if she is still a virgin.
The feel guilty for the deaths of men of the Vietnamese and for their own inadequacies. Their reasons for this guilt can be as valid as being the one who accidentally drew mortar fire down on the platoon or as irrational as cracking jokes about the dead. When they look for the people to