Rat Pours His Heart Out Character Analysis

When he had first started, Rat was an emotional and daring guy but soon was able to ease himself into the war environment and demonstrate his competency for his job. Around the time that he’d just joined, his inexperienced made him reckless. On one march into the mountains, the team took a break in the jungles and Rat immediately started playing with Lemon Curt in the shade of the trees. As he was playing, Lemon stepped on a landmine which resulted in his immediate death and left Rat devastated. In his grief, Rat expressed his pain by shooting at a baby water buffalo and even “pours his heart out” in a letter addressed to Curt’s sister and “almost bawls while writing it.”(O’Brien 64) His actions here reveal that he is someone who easily gets