Sunday, October 26, 2014

Blog 5

Summary:
I found it interesting on our reading in Tim O'Brien's book on chapters Enemies and Friends. Dave and Lee were two men who did not like one another. It all started by a missing knife, where Dave blamed Lee for stilling his knife. The two men broke out in a fight where Lee broke Dave's nose and had to be pulled aside for two days. The two men did not trust each other nor did not acknowledge one another. It took them months to get over their fight and put it past them. But after a few months Lee and Dave manage to get along. Where as they made a pack saying to each other if they were to ever get hurt where they'd end up on a wheel-chair they'd have took take ones life. As time had passed Lee had ended up getting hurt and lost one leg from the knee down. Their wasn't much that could have been done for the guy. Where as he laid passed out waking up every while waiting for the dustoff. As Lee would wake up he'd asked Dave not to kill him as frighten as he was. Dave did not want to do the honor one taking the man's life. Till the dustoff came to pick Lee up, then later the troops where told that Lee had passed while on the flight for help. Lee had seemed to be relieved that he hadn't been the one to take Lee's life away.

Response:
I believe that these two chapters meant something more; as a taught of friendship. Where two enemies can become friends on the long run. It teaches us where they two men weren't such found of one another at the begging. Where as they fought each other making it hard to have trust. But after while putting the past in the past the two men slowly became friends with one another not realizing it. I believe you can become friends with the people you once thought they were your enemy. I believe in the saying what's in the past is in past. Not everyone will be your friend, as you won't be everyone's friend.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you that the lesson of friendship in these two chapters was really a major point that O'Brien was trying to get across. You don't always expect someone that you originally dislike to become one of your friends, but in war you gotta trust the people you're fighting with and Stunk and Jensen seem to come to grips with that rather quick and bond closely until Stunk's death.

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