Blog #3 Assignment : Option A

"The Things They Carried" had many interesting characters. My personal favorite was Kiowa, who was a devout Baptist. He carried an illustrated New Testament that had been presented to him by his father who taught Sunday school in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He also carried his distrust of a white man, his grandfather's old hunting hatchet, as a hedge against bad times. He also carried a pair of moccasins for silence. He seems to be a flat character, not having feelings someone might expect. He describes Ted Lavender's death as watching a rock fall. He describes every event but not feeling any grief at all. It's as if he expects death any minute, being he's in the middle of a war and is experiencing the deaths of his partners. He wishes he had the sympathy Jimmy Cross had, but he just couldn't change his way of being. It's ironic how religious he is, yet doesn't feel any grief for the death of his friend.