"But what wakes me up twenty years later is Dave Jensen singing "Lemon Tree" as we threw down the parts. [page 79]
Curt Lemon is introduced in the chapter How to Tell A True War Story [chapter 7], and is killed off in the same chapter. Don't you just love when that happens? Not. :/
Alright so Lemon is a flat character. He is simply introduced as Rat Kiley's best friend. Both men are very young and have not experienced much. Lemon does not get to experience anything more than 19 years when he steps on a booby trap.
That's basically it. Lemon's character is one-dimensional and can be summed up in about four sentences. His story does not intertwine as much with O'Brien's except that they were in the same company.
Without the presence of Lemon's character. though, O'Brien would not have witnessed young death in the way that he did. He also realized the savageness of the human person when he and Dave Jensen were collecting his body. Jensen sang "Lemon Tree," which is disgustingly ironic and fitting. Kind of makes me want to throw up at the fact that humans can become so robotic as to not even flinch at disposing of a mutilated human body, even if they are not even aware that they have become so barbaric.
War brings out the worst...
Curt Lemon is introduced in the chapter How to Tell A True War Story [chapter 7], and is killed off in the same chapter. Don't you just love when that happens? Not. :/
Alright so Lemon is a flat character. He is simply introduced as Rat Kiley's best friend. Both men are very young and have not experienced much. Lemon does not get to experience anything more than 19 years when he steps on a booby trap.
That's basically it. Lemon's character is one-dimensional and can be summed up in about four sentences. His story does not intertwine as much with O'Brien's except that they were in the same company.
Without the presence of Lemon's character. though, O'Brien would not have witnessed young death in the way that he did. He also realized the savageness of the human person when he and Dave Jensen were collecting his body. Jensen sang "Lemon Tree," which is disgustingly ironic and fitting. Kind of makes me want to throw up at the fact that humans can become so robotic as to not even flinch at disposing of a mutilated human body, even if they are not even aware that they have become so barbaric.
War brings out the worst...
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