In this part of the book which is from page 12 to 20 it takes more about the men and the things that they do, carry, and so on. Like it says that lieutenant Jimmy Cross carry's his lucky pebble that he got from Martha which is the woman that he loves so much. Dave Jensen carried a rabbits foot. Norman Bowker carried a thumb that he had obtained from his friend Mitchell Sanders. It was cut off a VC corpse from a boy about fifteen or sixteen. They had found him at the bottom of an irrigation ditch burned. When one of the men died and lieutenant Cross felt that it was his fault when Ted Lavender died because he wasn't paying attention and he was blanked out thinking about Martha.
The phrase "the things they carried" is symbolic. What do you think is the significance of this title?
ReplyDeletethings they carried like sentimental values like pictures thoughts and memories of how their lives used to be
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