Charley Changing To begin with, every second is a chance to change to turn your life around to become better. For example, in Soldier’s Heart “Charley aimed in the general direction of the Rebels and pulled the trigger firing blind” (Paulsen 23). This piece of evidence shows how Charley is scared of getting hurt or hurting other people, so he fired blind so he wouldn not know if he hurt someone. Also, “Charley raised, aimed, and fired, all in less than 2 seconds. He did not know if he hit, he did not care. He reloaded behind the wall, rose, aimed, fired, and thought this is how it is supposed to be done” (Paulsen 94).This shows that Charley changed himself by the end of the book to make himself a better person and he was not as scared to
