Summary Of Chapter O 'Brien's The Things They Carried'
1. Cross feels that Lavender is killed because Cross himself was too busy daydreaming about Martha that he was unable to protect his men. Since Cross’s mind was in a distant place, he was unable to lead his team efficiently. Cross believes that if his mind was focused on the war he would have been able to protect Lavender.
2. At the end of the story Cross realizes that he needs to be a leader that is worthy of his men. There cannot be anymore daydreaming, and lack of focus since he is in a war. His men deserve a leader that will keep them in line and moving forward. Cross decides at the end to take full responsibility for Lavender’s death, and to let his men know that he will never lose focus like that again.
3. One luxury that Miss Emily
has that no one else has is the lack of house taxes. Since her father had given the town a great sum of money at one point in time he did not have to pay taxes on his house. When her father had passed the new town officials tried to get Emily to start making payments for her house taxes, but she refused. She did not believe that she had to pay them since her father had done so much for the town already, therefore, she sent the bills back without payment.
4. At the end of the story the narrator and some of his men discover what had happened to the man Emily was supposed to marry. Emily knew that he was going to leave her, so she murdered him in her home with poison. Miss Emily closed up the top half of her house for years, which is where her wedding planning things were and her dead fiancé lie. When the men break into the upstairs they notice that next to the dead man there is an indentation on the pillow where a long grey hair lies. Meaning that Emily must have laid next to the man she killed recently, before she had passed away.
2. At the end of the story Cross realizes that he needs to be a leader that is worthy of his men. There cannot be anymore daydreaming, and lack of focus since he is in a war. His men deserve a leader that will keep them in line and moving forward. Cross decides at the end to take full responsibility for Lavender’s death, and to let his men know that he will never lose focus like that again.
3. One luxury that Miss Emily
has that no one else has is the lack of house taxes. Since her father had given the town a great sum of money at one point in time he did not have to pay taxes on his house. When her father had passed the new town officials tried to get Emily to start making payments for her house taxes, but she refused. She did not believe that she had to pay them since her father had done so much for the town already, therefore, she sent the bills back without payment.
4. At the end of the story the narrator and some of his men discover what had happened to the man Emily was supposed to marry. Emily knew that he was going to leave her, so she murdered him in her home with poison. Miss Emily closed up the top half of her house for years, which is where her wedding planning things were and her dead fiancé lie. When the men break into the upstairs they notice that next to the dead man there is an indentation on the pillow where a long grey hair lies. Meaning that Emily must have laid next to the man she killed recently, before she had passed away.