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deliberately makes the reader consider what constitutes a necessity by packing his story with heavy irony; a weight that sends conflicting images to the reader and causes him/her to examine the realms of necessity. The reader can go further and apply this distinction between real necessity and something that just provides emotional sustenance to his/her own life.
“The thing they carried were largely determined by necessity," (2). The most important necessities can be easily argued as those of survival, and to establish their importance, these “necessities” appear first in the story. But in the descriptive account of the Alpha Company’s soldiers’ necessities, comic books and drugs are placed in the same paragraph. They are masked as necessities and placed on almost the same level as food and weapons. This defines the intense pressures of war on men. Perhaps the men feel emptiness which drives them to think that they need the extra accessories, ...

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