What was Lt. Jimmy Cross determined to do?
The Lieutenant of the Alpha Visitor. He never wanted to get to war, nor did he want to have to lead men. Instead he's preoccupied with how much he's in love with a daughter named Martha from home. This infatuation lasts long after the war, though they never get together.
Lieutenant Jimmy Cantankerous Quotes in The Things They Carried
The The Things They Carried quotes below are all either spoken past Lieutenant Jimmy Cross or refer to Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to information technology (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this i:
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This was non Mountain Sebastian, it was another world, where in that location were no pretty poems or midterm exams, a place where men died considering of abandon and gross stupidity. Kiowa was right. Boom-down, and you lot were dead. Never partly dead.
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For a few moments he considered request her to his room, but instead he laughed and told her how back in college he'd near washed something very brave. Information technology was subsequently seeing Bonnie and Clyde, he said, and on this same spot he'd almost picked her up and carried her to his room and tied her to the bed and put his mitt on her knee and only held it in that location all night long. It came close, he told her—he'd almost done it. Martha shut her eyes. She crossed her arms at her breast, every bit if suddenly common cold, rocking slightly, then after a time she looked at him and said she was glad he hadn't tried information technology. She didn't understand how men could do those things. What things? he asked, and Martha said, The things men do. So he nodded. It began to grade. Oh, he said, those things.
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Graphic symbol Timeline in The Things They Carried
The timeline below shows where the character Lieutenant Jimmy Cantankerous appears in The Things They Carried. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that advent.
First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross of Blastoff Visitor is conveying messages from a girl named Martha that he loves from... (full context)
Lieutenant Jimmy Cross walks with pictures of Martha all over Vietnam. He has two pictures of her: ane... (full context)
The things they carry depend on their rank and part. Lieutenant Jimmy Cantankerous is a lieutenant and then he carries a different kind of gun and the responsibility... (total context)
...ground. The men carry him to a chopper and then smoke his dope. Lieutenant Jimmy Cantankerous blames himself for Ted Lavander's death because he loves Martha so much that he'south been... (total context)
In the first week of April, just earlier Ted Lavender died, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross got a pebble every bit a good luck charm from Martha. She said in her letter... (full context)
...a dangerous task. Ted Lavender takes a tranquilizer and goes off to pee. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross checks the tunnel when he gets concerned about Lee Strunk, but he can only call up... (full context)
The things they carry are adamant by superstition: Lieutenant Jimmy Cantankerous' pebble, Dave Jensen'southward rabbit pes, Norman Bowker carries a dead man's thumb that was a... (full context)
After Ted Lavender dies and is taken away in the chopper, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross leads his men into Than Khe where they burn everything downward and shoot every living... (full context)
...night Kiowa talks about what it was like to encounter Ted Lavender die. Lieutenant Jimmy Cantankerous walks away and begins digging a foxhole. He sits at the lesser of his foxhole... (total context)
...of Ted Lavander's death, the short altitude between life and death. Kiowa says Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is commendable for caring so much most Ted Lavender and his men. Kiowa goes to... (full context)
The morning after Ted Lavander dies, Lieutenant Jimmy Cantankerous burns Martha's letters in his foxhole. And then he burns the two photographs. He decides he... (full context)
Lieutenant Jimmy Cross feels adamant to excel as a Lieutenant now and protect his men. He decides he... (total context)
Many years subsequently the end of the war, Jimmy Cantankerous visits Tim O'Brien at O'Brien's house in Massachusetts. They reminisce, drinking coffee and looking at... (total context)
Eventually, O'Brien feels like the mood has lightened plenty for him to ask about Martha. Cross stands up and returns with a picture of Martha playing volleyball. Cross asks if O'Brien... (full context)
At the reunion, Cantankerous learned that Martha had go a Lutheran missionary and a nurse who had done service... (full context)
Cross tells Martha that he loves her, but she keeps walking and doesn't reply. He walks... (full context)
Cross tells Tim O'Brien that he withal loves Martha. O'Brien tries to keep the conversation abroad... (full context)
Cross thinks it over for a moment, then agrees to let O'Brien write the story, maxim... (full context)
Cross then makes O'Brien promise not to mention annihilation most something, merely O'Brien cuts him off,... (total context)
...the Batangan Peninsula for 5 days, and he led all of them to safe. Jimmy Cross gave the poppa-san a hug while Mitchell Sanders and Lee Strunk gave him boxes of... (full context)
...people he knew and would know in the future, like his family, Linda, Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, his wife, his unborn daughter, his 2 sons, and the swain he killed outside... (full context)
...the next week or so. On the second day the elder monk gave Lieutenant Jimmy Cross a pikestaff chair and put it near the altar surface area, then bowed and gestured for... (total context)
...the shit field, where they were warned past village women to stay away. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross had to fire his pistol in the air to make the mama-sans become away. The... (full context)
Jimmy Cantankerous yells at a young soldier to close upward rank. The young soldier is separated from... (full context)
When Jimmy Cross looks at the river he knows he made a error setting upwards his men at that place.... (full context)
...New Testament. Sanders says Kiowa must be close. Bowker says they should tell Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, but Sanders refuses, claiming it's Cross' fault Kiowa is dead for stationing them there. Bowker... (full context)
Jimmy Cantankerous is fifty meters away from the three men. He'due south finished composing the letter to Kiowa'southward... (total context)
Jimmy Cross never wanted to be a leader. He had signed up for the Reserve Officer Preparation... (full context)
Jimmy Cross recalls 2 quondam women from the nearby hamlet who had come out to warn him... (total context)
Jimmy Cross over again notices the young soldier and approaches him. The young soldier was trying not to... (full context)
The young soldier seems panicked and doesn't look up when Jimmy Cross gets to him. The young soldier keeps maxim, "Right here…Got to be right here." Cross... (total context)
...and begin to dig around Kiowa. Anybody else comes over to watch except for Jimmy Cross and the young soldier. (total context)
Jimmy Cantankerous is near the centre of the field almost completely covered in the muck. He keeps... (full context)
Jimmy Cantankerous knew that "when a man died, in that location had to be arraign." Blame could be put... (full context)
Jimmy Cross keeps floating in the water of the river for a long fourth dimension. From the east... (total context)
...Different soldiers coped in unlike means: Dave Jensen took vitamins high in carotene, Lt. Jimmy Cross took NoDoz, Henry Dobbins and Norman Bowker attached a safety wire between their two belts. (full context)
...chopper came to accept Kiley away, there was some time to say goodbye. Lt. Jimmy Cross vouched that the shooting had been an accident. Henry Dobbins and Azar gave Kiley comic... (full context)
...starts with a nameless body. In 1969 the platoon came under burn and Lieutenant Jimmy Cantankerous radioed in an air strike, and the platoon watched the village burn down to the ground.... (total context)
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