Mar/7

In "On The Rainy River" the author/soldier runs away to Canada to escape getting drafted. He ends up staying with a man named Elroy Berdahl at a small resort. Elroy seems like he was in the boys shes at one time in his life. He kept trying to give the boy extra money. He was never trying to pressure the boy into leaving. Finally he always steered clear of the topic oh why he was there. It was also possible Elroy didn't even really work or live at the resort. When the author goes to say goodbye Elroy is gone and his pickup truck was missing. The author says "I went inside and waited for a while, but i felt a bone certainty that he wouldn't be back. In a way, I thought, it was appropriate". Maybe the man just happened to be there and he decided he should help the boy out. Finally the author indicates that the reason of him going to war would bother him forever. He said he was a coward and basically he was going to war so people wouldn't talk and he wouldn't embarrass his family. In the story "The Ghost Soldiers" the narrator has changed a lot and now he is consumed with getting a guy named Bobby Jorgenson back for almost letting him die.The narrator will always hold grudges because oh how adamant he was to get Jorgenson back and because now he wants to get Azar back for kicking him. The narrator and bobby will become good friends because know they both know how the other feels. They shake hands and then agree to get Azar back Finally the narrator will always remember Azar as a cruel person because Azar just didn't want to stop taunting Bobby even when O'Brien said that was enough. Also Azar calls him pathetic and then kicks him in the head because he wanted to stop hurting Bobby. The narrator Tim O'Brien changes a lot from the first story to the second one.He goes from being a coward and scared of war to embracing it and not being so scared of everything. O'Brien also went from a educated polished young man to one who is filled with anger and revenge for other people.