... the life that the man may have lived before his life was ended when O'Brien kills him with a grenade. Tim focuses on the man he killed unable to remove his eyes from him as he looks at the wounds he inflicted on him by throwing the grenade even as Kiowa, one of the soldiers in his company, repeatedly tells him to ... man of about twenty. He lay with one leg bent beneath him. His jaw in his throat, his face neither expressive nor inexpressive. One eye was shut. The other was a star-shaped hole" (page 90). Loss of innocence is evident in both pieces, they show how the young men go into th...

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