In the story, each man has a different object that they carry that affects their intellectual view on the war. ... According to the story, these men are marching up mountains and walking through swamps to keep themselves alive. ... Because Cross is the Alpha man, he felt as if it was his fault for Lavenders death. "He pictured Martha's smooth young face, thinking he loved her more than anything, more than his men, and now Ted Lavender was dead because he loved her so much and could not stop thinking about her (O'Brien 644).... Each man has a different area of concern pertaining ...

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Alfred Gavin believes that Madeleine is being possessed by her dead grandmother and told to commit suicide. ... Hitchcock proves to the audience that once a man is truly in love with a woman, her spirit will live on forever in his soul. ... This man is so in love that he will go to any length to find his true love. ... When Scottie is released from the asylum we see him walking the streets and mistaking many women for Madeleine. ...

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However, Hans learns of these nightmares quickly and begins to console Liesel: "Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. ... She says: "It's about time you face the fact that your son is dead. ... " Either way, he's dead! He's dead and it's pathetic you sit here shivering in your own house to suffer for it. ... In the lines, he describes the power of Liesel's words and her possibilities with those words, as she resists the tree being cut down from the most powerful man at the time i...

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