The Things They Carried Away Analysis
The “Things they carried away” is a story which is about the physical and emotional pain that a soldier carry during a war. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is the main character of the story who is a weak soldier who does not want to be in the war, however, he could not withdraw because soldiers were needed to fight the war. Throughout the whole story, Jimmy remembered a girl named Martha, whom he desired to be his girlfriend. In the other hand, because of the remembering Martha, many bad things happened during the war. In this paper, we will find out if Lieutenant Jimmy Cross's love for Martha was a mistake or beneficial during the Vietnam war. So, it can be argued that Lieutenant Jimmy Cross's love for Martha was a mistake or beneficial during the Vietnam war. Through the whole story, the character Martha was reminded by Jimmy Cross who wish her to be his girlfriend. He loved her with all his heart. He did not want her to be
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Jimmy was not ready for war because he was too young to attend at war. It is hard for a soldier to see the pain of others especially in a war. People die in a war, get injured, get wounded and it is a huge thing to handle which Jimmy was not ready for. He always, was wondering about Martha which kept him away to feel the actual war and helped him to keep his mind off from the war. In the text it says, “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, just pretending, walking barefoot along the Jersey shore.” (Tom O’Brien 488) In other words, once he starts thinking of her, it becomes difficult to stop that he goes deep into his imagination which take his mind off from the war. He even feels annoy to be in the war, which is why he sometimes becomes irritated to be disturbed by the war which distract him to stop thinking about the daydreams he was
Jimmy was not ready for war because he was too young to attend at war. It is hard for a soldier to see the pain of others especially in a war. People die in a war, get injured, get wounded and it is a huge thing to handle which Jimmy was not ready for. He always, was wondering about Martha which kept him away to feel the actual war and helped him to keep his mind off from the war. In the text it says, “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, just pretending, walking barefoot along the Jersey shore.” (Tom O’Brien 488) In other words, once he starts thinking of her, it becomes difficult to stop that he goes deep into his imagination which take his mind off from the war. He even feels annoy to be in the war, which is why he sometimes becomes irritated to be disturbed by the war which distract him to stop thinking about the daydreams he was