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Unformatted text preview: was something he would have to carry like a stone in his stomach for the rest of the war. All he could do was dig. He used his entrenching tool like an ax, slashing, feeling both love and hate, and then later, when it was full dark, he sat at the bottom of his foxhole and wept (O’Brien 8)”. 3. I believe this element directly related with the theme in the sense that war in general is 4. conflict. It is Man vs. Man but when soldiers experience trauma it becomes Man vs. Self. War is a super tough place to be because so many people end up mentally messed up because of it. As we can only imagine I am sure that Lt. Cross would have suffered with PTSD after the death of Lavender. Only the people that can mentally block things out are able to persevere through the mental aspects of war....
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