"Lee Strunk carried a slingshot; a weapon of last resort, he called it. Mitchell Sanders carried brass knuckles. Kiowa carried his grandfather's feathered hatchet. Every third or fourth man carried a Claymore antipersonnel mine - 3.5 pounds with its firing device. They all carried fragmentation grenades - 14 ounces each." -- Page 7
Alrighty, here's the deal. I'm not usually very good at pointing out all these hokey-pokey literary devices and other ingenious ways authors convey pulitzer prize-winning styles of legendary writing. However, I really enjoyed the first chapter of the book. The listing of all the equipment the soldiers carried showed some appreciated insight into the lives of someone at war, as well as providing Indirect Characterization for the lives of the men in Tim's squad. Also, the additional weight (e.g. love interests, faith, internal conflict) gave a double meaning to the chapter and book title. They not only carried the weight of their tangibles, but also the weight of their intangibles. The one thing I was grumpy about while reading this first chapter was the dialogue. Why do all classic literary wonders have to contain such (in my opinion) meaningless and painful conversations?
so if it indirectly characterized them, what characterization did the objects create?
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