Blog#3

I choose the story "The Things the carried" by TimO'Brian. The reason i chose this story is because i found it the most detailed and interesting and easier to relate to through a political, emotional and superficial view. The characteri found most interesting was Kiowa. His undermining nature to his fellow platoon was bothersome but understandable in a negative way. Negative due to his dislike of the white man, and being that most of his platoon consisted of white individuals. When describing the shot and instant death of Ted Lavender, he described it in such a blunt and point blank way as if he had no care in the world for any one but himself. I feel that that was due to the way he was raised with his grandmothers dislike of the white man and the hatchet he was provided with from his father. I think that Ted Lavenders death didn't effect him too much because being in combat has numbed him to those sort of aspects. And maybe he wasn't raised to be sensitive to many things; possibly even to not react emotionally to death to save his own sanity.