His love for her was also a huge distraction from what truly was important. Lieutenant Cross shows shame and fear. His love for Martha distracted him so much that Ted Lavender, a soldier in his platoon, died under his watch. O’Brien states, “He felt shame. He hated himself.
When his soldier Ted Lavender died all he could do was cry and blame himself for his death, “He felt shame. He hated himself.... this was something he would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of war.” (O’Brien, The Things They Carried 42) but he didn’t let that very heart-wrenching emotion of feeling responsible for someone’s death cloud his judgment or cause him to take his job lightly. Towards the end of the story he stepped up, over-coming the guilt he felt after the death of Ted Lavender. Learning from his mistakes and changing the way he lead his platoon “He would not tolerate laxity. He would show strength, distancing himself.” (O’Brien, The Things They Carried 100) He showed courage while seeing the bigger picture telling himself “that his obligation was not to be loved but to lead.” (O’Brien, The Things They Carried 101) Masculinity is very apparent in this platoon.
This created a sad and emotional ending because it shows George did not want to kill Lennie but had no choice. In the movie, it was the complete opposite. George showed no emotions before shooting Lennie. George was sitting by the rocks talking to Lennie and out of nowhere, you hear gunfire, finding Lennies body lying there dead. This was the complete opposite of the books ending because George didn’t care as much for killing Lennie as he did in the book.
The novel shoes the misery of war and the everlasting effects it has on the soldiers; even Baumer cannot escape those circumstances. Before the war Baumer was a nice, empathetic, and gentle person but the war has him almost disconnected from his feelings. He becomes numb to the evil surrounding him. His friends are quickly lost to the cruelty and horror of war. Some died a quick death while others died a slow, painful death, showing the reality of war.
Kantorek often calls them the iron youth because he describes their efforts as brave and heroic. As a member of the Second Company, Paul has doubts in his choices when his classmate Joesph Behm is one of the first to die when enlisted in war. To make matters worst, Paul’s friend Kemmerich loses his leg and has a slow and painful death. Paul then has the burden of telling Kemmerich’s mom of her son’s death, especially when she confides in him to watch over her son during the war. As the war continues, the leader of the Second Company Himmelstoss is disliked by many of the soldiers because of his harsh tactics and insensible actions.
This by itself sounds like condemning evidence that Brick is a horrible immoral person, but we the audience feels more of sympathy toward him than anger because of the unfortunate circumstances that occurred in his life. The audience never got the chance to meet skipper but we understand that Brick and him used to be inseparable; they were professional football teammates and would spend a lot of time together traveling and playing. Brick greatly valued this friendship however; many people including his own wife completely destroyed their friendship. People would call their friendship “impure” and “wrong” implying that they were homosexual. Margret, bricks wife, confronted Skipper and told him “Stop lovin my husband or tell him he’s got to let you admit it to him!” To prove her wrong Skipper attempted to have sex with Margret but could not do it, which made him even, believe that he was gay.
Keller taught Paul 'life lessons', which was derived from his own life, plagued with suffering. Paul becomes fascinated with his past, and later discovers through Keller how hard a life he led after the death of his wife and child. Keller blamed himself for losing them, because like paul, he also had too much pride, and thought nothing would harm the family 'who played for hitler'. he was so hurt by his own arrogance that he wanted to kill himself. however, keller survives.
They felt they needed to honor their country by serving in the wars. In “Band of Brothers”, it focused on a soldier watching bombs and attacks going off from afar, reflecting on how the war had affected him. He promised to himself that after the war, he would live a life surrounded by peace and isolated from chaos. The soldier had been traumatized by the despair and sorrow of war, and clearly anticipated the moment that the war and fighting would come to an end. In conclusion, soldiers in both wars abhorred the idea of killing, but these thoughts were overcome by their sense of loyalty to their country.
This affects him as he could not give priority to his responsibility as a soldier because he thinks that he loves her so much more than his war mates. Such ideas would keep Cross’s friends in danger as he would only care about his safety and not his war mates and the importance to win the war. Cross’ irresponsibility behavior has caused a very big effect as it killed his friend Ted Lavender. This could be seen in a verse in paragraph 10 in the short story. “He pictured Martha’s smooth young face, thinking he loved her more than anything, more than his men, and now Ted Lavender was dead because
The Doctor that saved his life feels sad for Mr. Nicklinsons behalf, the fact that he is still alive, that he is paying for them saving his life. The doctors’ oath states that they must try to save life, and therefor feels sorry for Mr. Nicklinson that are going thru a lot of pain. The issue is that his life quality is non-existing. He would rather be dead than