“To carry something was to hump it, as when Lieutenant Jimmy Cross humped his love for Martha up the hills and through the swamps. In its intransitive form, to hump meant to walk, or to march, but it implied burdens far beyond the intransitive”(3). Lieutenant Jimmy Cross has carried his fair share of objects, feelings, and thoughts. Minor characters such as Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen experience very strange and odd events, which initiates suspicious behavior between the two. The soldiers in the Vietnam War carried a multitude of different things, whether they were physical or mental. Horrid events would hang in the air around Lieutenant Jimmy Cross’s platoone.
Lieutenant Jimmy Cross has gone through a lot ever since he met …show more content…
The story begins with the two ruffians getting into a fistfight over a stolen jackknife. Lee gets his nose busted by the unforgiving fist of Dave. Strunk gets airlifted to nurse his poor, defeated nose. Dave carries around the guilt of the obliteration of facial cartilage belonging to Lee Strunk. When Lee came back, the two were acting very alert toward one another. Dave’s empathy got the better of him, as he went up to Lee with a pistol and broke his own nose . After that very odd episode, they decide they’re even. So, Dave and Lee construct a pact to put each other out of their misery. They carry a new friendship, a brotherhood, a bond. The pact never went into action, as Lee stepped on a rigged land mine he pleaded, “Really, it’s not that bad. Not terrible. Hey, really-they can sew it back on-really” (63). Lee dies a few days later, which means Dave gets to loosen up and drop any built up guilt he obtained after the land mine incident. Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen have both learned valuable lessons from their actions, as Dave does a weird way of apologizing. Overall, the two carried around suspicion, guilt, jackknives, and new bond between two men.
In The Things They Carried, the platoon under the careful eye of the great Lieutenant Jimmy Cross hump a great deal of things. Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen carry the guilt of childish behavior that escalates to violence, and a fresh bond that sprouts from their quarrel. Jimmy Cross humps his unconventional love for the oh-so-great Martha. Just like Lee and Dave, Jimmy Cross carries around the guilt for the death of Kiowa and Ted Lavender. The Vietnam War has shaped these fine young boys into the toughest and most mature men. These three men are all changed for the better (well except Lee, he’s
Lieutenant Jimmy Cross has gone through a lot ever since he met …show more content…
The story begins with the two ruffians getting into a fistfight over a stolen jackknife. Lee gets his nose busted by the unforgiving fist of Dave. Strunk gets airlifted to nurse his poor, defeated nose. Dave carries around the guilt of the obliteration of facial cartilage belonging to Lee Strunk. When Lee came back, the two were acting very alert toward one another. Dave’s empathy got the better of him, as he went up to Lee with a pistol and broke his own nose . After that very odd episode, they decide they’re even. So, Dave and Lee construct a pact to put each other out of their misery. They carry a new friendship, a brotherhood, a bond. The pact never went into action, as Lee stepped on a rigged land mine he pleaded, “Really, it’s not that bad. Not terrible. Hey, really-they can sew it back on-really” (63). Lee dies a few days later, which means Dave gets to loosen up and drop any built up guilt he obtained after the land mine incident. Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen have both learned valuable lessons from their actions, as Dave does a weird way of apologizing. Overall, the two carried around suspicion, guilt, jackknives, and new bond between two men.
In The Things They Carried, the platoon under the careful eye of the great Lieutenant Jimmy Cross hump a great deal of things. Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen carry the guilt of childish behavior that escalates to violence, and a fresh bond that sprouts from their quarrel. Jimmy Cross humps his unconventional love for the oh-so-great Martha. Just like Lee and Dave, Jimmy Cross carries around the guilt for the death of Kiowa and Ted Lavender. The Vietnam War has shaped these fine young boys into the toughest and most mature men. These three men are all changed for the better (well except Lee, he’s