Select ONE of the following quotes and write a long paragraph reflecting on how the quote connects with the events of the chapter.
“They all carried ghosts” (10).
“They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried” (7).
“Some things they carried in common. Taking turns, they carried the big PRC-77 scrambler radio, which weighed 30 pounds with its battery. They shared the weight of memory” (p14).
“He was realistic about it. There was that new hardness in his stomach. He loved her but he hated her.
No more fantasies, he told himself” (24).
“It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do” (25).
“You want my opinion, Mitchell Sanders said, there’s a definite moral here.
He put his hand on the dead boy’s wrist. He was quiet for a time, as if counting a pulse, then he patted the stomach, almost affectionately, and used Kiowa’s hunting hatchet to remove the thumb.
Henry Dobbins asked what the moral was.
Moral?
You know. Moral.” (13)
