Only ten years old, the British let him die of disease on a prison ship and then dumped his body into the sea. Upon hearing of Jerry’s death, Tim’s mother exclaims, “‘They’re animals now, they’re all beasts,” (166). Soldiers should fight for the safety of innocents, but their greed for violence and power made them responsible for the death of a boy. Tim becomes neutral due to the fact that the innate morality he expects from all of humanity is forgotten by either side of the war. The ideals he aspires to hold show themselves to be the beginnings of a loss of