Monday, November 14, 2011

Marthas Meaning


            Amidst all of the hard ship and war that has fallen around Lieutenant Cross the only thing that he can think about is Martha. To Cross Martha represents home and his life away from the war. The pebble, picture, and the letters are constant reminders to him of her and everything that she represents. Martha also is motivation to Cross. She is motivation to Cross because she is the representation of home, and of all the women and people that he, and all the other soldiers are fighting for. Cross sees Martha as peaceful, soft, and feminine and all the good things in life which helps him escape all of the gruesome things that are happening all around him in the war. At the end when Cross decides to burn all of the letters from Martha with it he is loosing sight of what he is truly fighting for. He thinks that by getting rid of this vision of Martha and everything that she means to him, his home, and his life before the war, he will become a more focused soldier and less emotionally attached to the world he left behind.

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