On occasion he would yell at his men to spread out the column, to keep their eyes open, but then he would slip away into daydreams.” Because of his negligence, Ted Lavender was dead. Because of his distraction, he lost a man. He did care for Lavender and wept for his lost. “He felt shame. He hated himself.
Nevertheless, he is not as fine as Lyman thought. Even though his brother did his best to help him, Henry could not accept the new awful things he was going trough, therefore he took his own life. Watching someone you love suffering is heart wrenching, especially when nothing can be done to help the situation. Erdrich looks at the trauma of a soldier returning home from war and how their family must cope with his emotional change. The effects of war not only affect the soldier, but also cause an effect on families and loved ones.
For example Lieutenant Cross was always thinking about Martha the women he loved back in the United States. This thought of her made Lieutenant Cross forget that he was in a war zone and before he knew it Ted Lavender died because of his emotional thought about her. Lieutenant Cross and Tim O’Brien share the same feeling of guilt. Lieutenant Cross feels bad after but one can see how these thoughts hit oneself hard and just like Tim O’Brien this sticks with him a long time because he believes if was focused and not going into his own world he could of saved one of his fellow
John Proctor choose to go against the judge s orders for the reputation of his family can be ruin because of his action. This reveals that Proctor is a good man who cares about the good for the people and his family in addition, Proctor dies for what he believes. He believes that his family is before everything. Proctor chooses to die because he decides to give his kids a good reputation so they can
This calamitous incident occurs when he gets shot in the head and is killed while returning from using the latrine. Just moments before this tragedy occurs, Cross is daydreaming about his obsession, Martha, back in America and how he loves her and how she cannot relate with his feeling of affection. It is while his mind is wandering when Ted Lavender gets shot. Cross cannot help but feel responsible for Lavender’s death. Despite that deaths like this are commonly caused by freak incidents, he feels that if his attention had been focused on the war at the very moment Lavender died instead of the girl whose love he can never obtain, he could have prevented this loss of life.
Both of these ate away at the men; mind, body and soul. ‘Carry’ means to hold or support while moving, to transport, transmit, or transfer, but figuratively, ‘carry’ connotes bearing a grievance. After Ted Lavender was killed Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried Lavenders burden with him because he felt personally responsible for his death. He was to busy thinking about Martha the one he loved, even though he knew she didn’t love him in return. L.T.
In this way people the chances of people challenging Big Brother are lessened. • “To die hating them, that was freedom.” Book 3, Chapter IV Page 281. Winston detest Big Brother down to his inner core. To him, going against Big Brother was the ultimate liberty in life. If he were to die still hating Big Brother, it would make the statement of everything he had stood for in life and the sacrifices he had to make.
“At one point, I remember, we paused over a picture of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death. It was something that would never go away, he said quietly, and I nodded and told him I felt the same about certain things” (Obrien 27). Another theme is fear of shame as motivation. Tim O’Brien experiences this himself when he is on the boat with Elroy. He decides to go to war because he is ashamed of running from it.
Cross can be compared as a Christ-like figure not only on a superficial level, they share the same initials of JC, but also in the nature of his role as the lieutenant of the platoon. In The Things They Carried, Cross carries grief of lavenders death for the members of the Alpha Company. At the end of the story, he burns the letters from Martha so that he will no longer be distracted by her memory; this instance signifies the transformation from premature soldier to mature lieutenant. In each case, Cross makes a Christ-like sacrifice so that his fellow men—Norman Bowker and Kiowa, in this case—can carry on without being crippled by grief and
His decision to not save his best friend from harm is like a tiny flame that sets off a massive forest fire destroying everything in its path. Amir feels so guilty about what he has done he begins to disregard everything everyone else has done for him and only thinks of ways he can find peace within himself, but for no one else. All he wants to do is forget about his horrible actions and takes out the anger that he has with himself on others, like when Ali is asking Amir if he knows what’s wrong with Hassan and he rudely replies with “How should I know? … Now, am I going to freeze to death are you planning on lighting the stove any time today?” (Hosseini 81) Ali’s reminders to Amir about what Hassan is going through because of him is obviously not helping Amir forget about what he’s done, whether Ali knows it or not. Even though it’s not Ali’s fault, Amir finds it necessary to be disrespectful to Ali despite all the ways he has benefitted his life.