Comparing Schindler's List 'And The Things They Carried'

Loyalty: Not as Cut and Dry “Schindler’s List” and “The Things They Carried”, both take place during a war. The film and short story both display courage, loyalty and an emotional burden. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and Oskar Schindler, the main characters in the two works, were both in roles that demanded courage, displayed a shift in loyalty and an emotional burden. Their demand of courage showed through their authority to complete tasks at hand and to prevent any unnecessary bloodshed. Throughout their journeys there is a conscientious decision to shift their loyalties to protect those in their immediate lives, which also proved to be their emotional burden. Teaming up with Itzhak Stern, Schindler displays courage by risking his life to save and protect Jews. The same race of people, he as a Nazi profiteer, was not supposed to be shielding. He opens a factory where he had Jewish workers that were eventually going to be killed. He bribed Amon Goeth, to

Lt. Cross whose loyalty was always to the men of his platoon. However, he became emotionally troubled with the fact that one of his men had died. He felt it was his fault, for not limiting the items that they carried. Guilt ridden he was ever more determined to display courage on a grander scale by becoming a better leader. Although this was not his only task at hand, he had to do this while letting go of someone, he had enormous feelings for, because she proved to be a distraction. His mind was unclear due to his constant fretting over Martha, he had a rock that she had sent to him, he would put this rock in his mouth and pretend it was her tongue. This was not the type of ideas he needed in his head during war. Lt. Cross needed to be focused on strategies that would preserve his life and the lives of the other men in his