1. Trauma and Memory in War Literature
... about his death. As Tim O'Brien narrates, he talks about the change he saw in the men once they saw Lavender's body; "They found jokes to tell...used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness...when someone died it wasnt quite dying...it seemed scripted"(23). This passage shows how death has affected the soldiers' mentality. Humor is a way ... ...
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