Homesick At times when humans are not satisfied with what they have, they escape to a fantasy world. When a human can not continue living the reality, he escapes to a world of fantasy. The author of “The Thing They Carried” describes a group of military soldiers that have a careless and unorganized leader. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross was the leader of that platoon who was responsible for the lives of his men. The problems occurred …showed first 75 words of 1221 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1221 total…spent days and weeks pretending to be in love. Lieutenant Cross was irresponsible and careless for his men. He never stopped them from using drugs, and the outcome of his irresponsibility was the death of one of his men. Unfortunately, he still continued to lead the group in the same manner. The last and the worst order given by Cross was to burn down the village where so many innocent lives would be taken away.