It broke my heart when I read the end of it and Robert killed Tracy. I deeply believe that what he did was morally wrong. Were his wife and children aware that he was going to do that? Why would he do that without consulting with anyone? I think that he should have consulted with his wife, kids, and Tracy’s doctor first.
That is why he wrote this piece to show how some people can seem irrational in life and death situations. Well it seems like everything in question 2 that led up to the question was irrelevant. Yet I think he called it the falling man because it is a generality. A general sensitive title for a horrific event. He start it with Hernandez family which felt betrayed that their father would jump to his death and leave him behind.
He hated himself. He had loved Martha more than his men, and as a consequence Lavender was now dead, and this was something he would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of the war” (103). Cross was ashamed; he is a leader and was not there for his soldiers. Now he has the burden for a soldier that died at his hands. The last personality trait that First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross demonstrates is bravery.
The deaths of his friends were a big blow to him considering all the moments they have spent together, especially Manny (Leary feels responsible for his death). His stubbornness of being “King of the Ice” were one of the reasons that led to Manny’s drinking habits (for example, trading Manny away to the Amerks) and eventual death. Manny died alone and was pretty unhappy and his wife Jane makes evidence of that by saying “when he wasn’t drinking there was a sadness in him I couldn’t touch.”(Leary p.221) Leary felt like his selfishness cost him his dear friend’s happiness and life. Clay’s death was another important piece of evidence regarding Leary’s transformation as experiencing loss finally let out Leary’s emotions, who seemed to be a guy who kept everything inside and felt nothing. The reader can feel that Leary had finally broken out of his crusty shell and let all his tears pour down for someone he had truly
Lieutenant Cross knows that it was because of his carelessness, that Ted Lavender was dead. This is shown on page 346, when O’Brien writes, “He felt shame. He hated himself. He had loved Martha more than his men, and as a consequence, Lavender was now dead, and this was something he would have to carry like a stone
He lets the evil into his head and clouds his vision of others. He ends up living, but he isn’t happy nor is he nice towards others, especially his wife Faith. He thinks she is plotting against him and he ends up dying unhappy and almost alone. He viewed others differently and thought they were all involved with evil. So, as you can see, people were infected with evil, especially Brown himself.
Just by the snap of a camera flashing that night after the accident, the world’s greatest golfer suddenly came crashing down and his career was being severely overlooked by what was going on in his own personal life. Not only did he lose his marriage and family, but he lost the way that he was viewed by his fans and those who were closest to him. After the incident happened, people were booing him when he played, and the media started to come up with nasty sayings and jokes about him. His private life had gone public and all of this has had a major affect on Tiger. Gaining this publicity has severely changed Tiger’s game and how he carries himself around the golf course.
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.
As a society and individuals we see death as sadness as it’s the end of our physical relationship; however it is the death of young people that creates the most grief for those left behind. In the text marshal is the victim of death he couldn’t handle the outburst of social media he didn’t want to have anything to do with it anymore and couldn’t mentally overcome the adversity which
He said “I was mad at God; I was mad at Jesus. I blamed myself for all of the deaths. I had cursed my family. I had left the tribe, and had broken something inside all of us, and I was now being punished for that.” (Alexie 1898) Arnold was not dealing with these deaths very well, all hope had been lost for him. He was grieving by not wanting to go to school, he did not feel like getting out of bed.