I like the reading. I'm just wondering why the O'brien relates back to Jim Cross and Ted Lavender so much. I'm just wondering if those guys have some bigger meaning.
i liked how in one of the paragraphs that described Kiowa after Ted died the text said: "He wished he could find some great sadness, or even anger, but the emotion wasn't there and he couldn't make it happen." I got a real idea that the soliders we're becoming numb to their own feelings and everything going on around them. All they wanted was to stay alive for themselves. it's really interesting to get this kind of perspective from someone who was with all these soliders during the war.
-andrea salva
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Reading the story I get the same feeling Andrea gets. Being in the war almost creates a different person within these men, a person with no feelings at all. Death to them becomes a daily occurence, something they will always see. Interesting to note that in reading O'Brien's description he considers his work to be fiction, but it seems as though just about everything we are reading in the story are nothing but the truth...
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