In one of the chapters, he writes in depth details about Rat Kiley killing a baby buffalo, because his best friend Curt Lemon had previously died from stepping on a mine. To cope with his feelings Kiley went on a rampage on the baby buffalo. “He stepped back and shot it through the right front knee. The animal did not make a sound, it went down hard, then got up again…”(59). The readers can interpret this killing in many different way, but I believe that the buffalo wasn’t actually a buffalo but a person instead and Kiley had to torture this person to cope with their own lost feelings of losing one of their company’s solder Curt Lemon. At first the reader might not think much about the simple killing buffalo, but O’Brien does not want that from his readers but instead he wants them to think hard and deep about why would the killing of a buffalo is that important and why would write a whole chapter about it. Writing in this kind of manner O’Brien himself and others to expand themselves and leave up many ways of
In one of the chapters, he writes in depth details about Rat Kiley killing a baby buffalo, because his best friend Curt Lemon had previously died from stepping on a mine. To cope with his feelings Kiley went on a rampage on the baby buffalo. “He stepped back and shot it through the right front knee. The animal did not make a sound, it went down hard, then got up again…”(59). The readers can interpret this killing in many different way, but I believe that the buffalo wasn’t actually a buffalo but a person instead and Kiley had to torture this person to cope with their own lost feelings of losing one of their company’s solder Curt Lemon. At first the reader might not think much about the simple killing buffalo, but O’Brien does not want that from his readers but instead he wants them to think hard and deep about why would the killing of a buffalo is that important and why would write a whole chapter about it. Writing in this kind of manner O’Brien himself and others to expand themselves and leave up many ways of