The love leads to shame is prevelant througout the story ‘’What They Carried’’ with several striking examples. In this essay, I will show how these brave men fell prey under pressure and were left shameful because of the emotion, love. ‘’What They Carried’’ uses love as the predator and prey as shame. They loved their homeland, they were fighting to defend their pride. They were fighting to ignore the disire of shooting themselfes. ‘’They spoke bitterly about guys who had found release by shooting off their own toes or fingers’’. They knew that fear was devastating ther minds and controling their thoughts, but they felt shame of being frigthtened resulting from the love of humanity and them own life.
