Irrational arguments between Jensen and Strunk, killing a baby buffalo, talking and laughing with the dead.
The Things They Carried has created a question of boundaries for me. It started when I wrote my thesis for the book. It is evident that social codes are elastic in the Vietnam war for these characters. If civilians acted in the same manner, it would be appalling. So where exactly do the boundaries stop in wartime?
And to further broaden the topic (I know it's really going outside the novel), where are situations where boundaries for traditional social interaction/standards/customs/codes allowd to be stretched or broken?
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