Thursday, December 10, 2015
Trophies
In the novel Elijah meets a soldier that asks him if he was the best sniper. Elijah kind of shrugs and is not sure what to say. The soldier asks him if he was the one who shot the Fritz best sniper and Elijah perks up and says yes he is. The soldier told him he is the best and very good at what he does and should be proud of how good he is and all the men he has killed. He told Elijah that he needs something to prove to people that he has actually shot all these people and almost something like trophies so he will always know how good he is and the work he has done. He says to remember all of your kills, Elijah should cut the scalps and hair off of all the men he has killed so then he can go back and look at all the kills he has. I think this is really weird and should not be something proud of to have that many kills also to keep their scalps you have to have some pretty big mental issues going on to do that.
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I agree that this is a very strange decision made by Elijah and ends up being a very big turning point in the story for his character. After this conversation he is not the same becoming a much darker person who takes pride and even says that killing is what he is good at.
ReplyDeleteElijah is just one of those characters that strives to get attention. Elijah knows that he is not the best shot and tries to prove it. That ambition to be the best shot escalated to the point he needed to show off how many he has killed by presenting "trophies" to everyone but the war, at this time, played a part in it that drove him mad.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with the whole part where it is weird how you had to keep some part of the soldier to prove you actually killed a guy that day. But life is the way it is & to be in the war most guy might lie about how many guys these have killed so that they can climb the ladder faster to a job where it's not as risky. Do you think the guys will even believe Elijah cut the scalps off, or do the guys most likely think Elijah just found these findings off the ground? Do you think after taking these findings Elijah is known to be a much darker and cold hearted person? Or is this just part of his character, and he's just trying to do his job the right way rather than the way Xavier is doing it?
ReplyDeleteI agree with shawn but there are some parts of the book where elijah thinks he is better then everyone else that he hangs around with and he can does everything better then anyone else.
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