Going After Cacciato Analysis

As McWilliams (1998), explains “they have killed before, but always on the orders of their superiors; thus, they can argue, in their own minds at least, that they are innocent. But this killing is deliberately planned and executed against orders” (1988, pg.248 para. 2). Although, comparing both stories of “Things That They Carried” and Going After Cacciato” Paul and “Tim” have fears that leave them outside of their lives looking in, they are wondering if they can get past all the pain of taking another human being’s life for nothing. Often they envision how the smell of the shells from the mortar rounds would come up from deep within the ground mixing with the fungus smell immediately clotting their nose with muck to where they could not …show more content…
Shameful and full of guilt for what the protagonists did, later it comes back to haunt him. He recalls repeatedly in guilt how the man “Tim” killed remain blown in pieces with injuries such as his teeth missing, his cheeks had strips of skins torn; his eye was “star shaped” and the other shut. He remember how a butterfly landed on him and how his neck injury and spinal cord were intertwined therefore, it was from the blood of this injury that should have killed him. O’Brien (1990, Pg. 118) “Tim” threw a grenade that exploded in the deepest darkest part after midnight. It was unclear and very sizzling with mosquitoes flying fiercely among them. Sitting in a thick brush not thinking only reactions from an empty head, pulling the pin of the grenade, and throwing it towards the fragile young man, it gave out big puffs of white smoke, several popping noises thus coming from the kill site. There were gnats surrounding the bloody body and sweat beads flowed off all of us from the heat of the sun. As this poor, fragile boy lay as the dark fall seem to arrive, awakened to more hard steady acid rain fall ,and yet a lighter shade of daylight appeared as “Tim” had to leave this poor young man to lay in the trails for the animals to pick and

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