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Kiowa's Death In The Chapter 'In The Field By Tim O' Brien

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In the chapter “In the Field”, from The Things They Carried, the death of Kiowa provokes a chain reaction throughout the soldiers in Alpha Company. In this chapter, the narrator says, “When a man dies, there has to be blame” (O’Brien 169). The quote is said after Kiowa’s death takes place; and in the scene, we see the events leading up to Kiowa’s death and the events taking place after it from the perspectives of Lt. Jimmy Cross, the unnamed soldier, and the rest of the troop, such as Norman Bowker, Azar, and Mitchell Sanders, who find Kiowa’s body and pull him out of the muck; and Lt. Cross and “the young soldier” are looking for an image of the soldier’s ex-girlfriend, who was lost in the field after to sink and suck Kiowa into it. The meaning
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