![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jimmy feels guilty for running away and he thinks that somehow the man knows what he's going through. "His eyes had the bluish gray color of a razor blade, the same polished shine, and as he peered up at me I felt a strange sharpness, almost painful, a cutting sensation as if his gaze were somehow cutting me open. When Jimmy killed his first person he felt like he didn't really need to and he wasn't a threat. It also shows that the people that they are fighting against have a life too and they deserve a chance. In the quote "The grenade made a popping noise, not soft but not loud either, not what I expected and there was a puff of dust and smoke, a small white puff and the young man seemed to jerk upward as if pulled by invisible wires." This quote expresses that soldiers do things that they feel guilty about at war. In the book The Things They Carried the characters use imagery to portray the hardships of the war. ![]()
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