The ending of this novel was really weird and sort of depressing. Rat Kiley, one of the soldiers, is now going insane in the membrane. He is acting quite crazy. He’s at a point where he is now scratching himself all over his body. When he gets a scab he just scratches it and then it starts to bleed. Then a new scab forms and it’s a process all over again. He gets so crazy that he ends up shooting himself in the foot! I think that this is very significant because this shows the shock that the soldiers went through during the war and it only get worse after they get back home. Watching a lot of people die in front of you can truly make you go insane just like Rat Kiley did. Another puzzling story that was told in this last section was about a memory that Tim has when he was a kid. He talks about this little girl named Linda. She is made fun of for wearing this red stoking/cap. The reason she needs to wear it is because she has scars and stitches that go all around her head. The reason she has all these markings on her head is because she has cancer. This is a form of symbolism to me because it represents the soldiers going to the war. I think this because when she finds out she has cancer, she knows now that she is going to die soon. This is like the soldiers because once they find out that they are going to war, they know that they too will die soon in combat.
-Catalina Nunez
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