An Unsatisfied Craving

Have you ever felt like you are never satisfied with something? Never pleased and always wanting more? This is how soldiers who expirement with morphine feel. In the start of the book, Xavier and Elijah say they are never going to try the evil medicine called morphine. As the story goes on and the war gets worse and worse, soldiers begin needing something to lean on to try and get them through the living hell that they are living. " Grey eyes was shaken badly by it, swore it was the gates of hell opening up below us. He hasn't been the same since and is taking more morphine than is wise" (Pg 144). I believe this quote shows exactly why the soldiers use morphine. When Xavier comes home from the war, he is still trying to deal with his craving for morphine. Many soldiers who came back could not kick their craving and eventually became so addicted to morphine that they ended up over dosing  or their heart stops. Morphine is so powerful that they do not administer it in armies or hospitals unless absolutely needed because of the history of the drug.