Thursday, April 8, 2010
Blog #3A
Jimmy Cross: A sensitive, dreamy Lieutenant, Cross must lead his men through the rice paddies of Vietnam. He would rather be back in New Jersey with Martha, a girl he loves who does not love him back. He knows she never will, and this tortures him, and distracts him from his work. When a man dies and Cross thinks he could have prevented it if he hadn't been thinking about Martha, he abruptly decides that he has to learn to think only of his job in the field. He never forgives himself for forgetting his responsibility to his men. One of the things that he carried letters from a girl named Martha. I chose Mr. Cross to talk about because in my opinion he is better than other characters in the story.
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Well that's a funny reason to choose a character. But your right he was a more interest character and was the main character as well. I think it was foolish of him to have his mind on a girl first that does not love him and second he was in a war but his mind was in New Jersey and as you can see it did not turn out well for some of his men.
ReplyDeleteI liked Jimmy Cross, too. He dreamed and thought about Martha because he just did not wanna be there. So in order to scape from the reality, he was just destructing himself by his day dream. That is why probably the writer mention many times about how his real relationship was with Martha which was nothing. Anyhow, great blog.
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