In stockings I feel that the panty hoes at first were worn because they were his girlfriends. But over the time he spends in Vietnam the panties become a good luck charm. Even after she dumps dobbins he still wears them because now the panty hoes are part of him and he believes that they are good luck.
In the church chapter it seems to me that church is waht brings the human out of them. After all of the figthing and killing they done they come to a place were they can interact with other people. Although some of them say that they arent religious its just the fact that being around other humans in a time of war can help you cope with your problem.
In the man I killed chapter reveals the sensitism of war. It comes a point in war were you actually have to sit back and witnessed yourself what you have become. O'Brien tries to imagine the possibilities of what that young man couldve been before he killed him. In war we kill one another but at the same time we call each other enemies. However we have to think to ourselves are we really the enemies against ourselves. what makes the cause their fighting for wrong in our eyes. that whats this chapter reveals about war. See the man that we fight against probably have a wife like the next man, kids, a house, and family jus that the nationality, and the flag we fight for is what makes us kill one another.
I dont understand whats the problem in this chapter if he was the enemy then why wouldnt he kill him is it because he ran off and hesitated and showed a sign of surrender. If O'Brien was the man wlaking im pretty sure that the other soldier wouldve killed him.
This chapter is confusing as well. All it was was a litle girl dancing, maybe Dobbins felt that Azar actions were childish and that they were not of good intentions. So we began to see saome humanity in the war and that humane person is Dobbins.
Can you relate to an object that functions as a symbol and therefore has "power"? O'Brien is always playing with the concrete/abstract qualities of "the things they carried" throughout the novel.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what "sensitism" is. O'Brien gives the man he kills an imaginary life which in turn forces him to confront the gravity of the situation. He doesn't just see him as an enemy but as a human being. His repeptition of the physical description reminds us of O'Brien's horror at what he has done. His guilt is profound and emphasized through the writing. Yes, the man might have killed him, but O'Brien sees the senselessness of the killing.
I think the girl "dancing" is actually traumatized. Azar is always trivializing the war and its brutality, probably as a means of coping with the horror.