Krebs goes downstairs for breakfast and starts to read the paper. What effect have these battles had on Krebs? The effect that these battles have on him are traumatizing him every time he goes back to the war. Krebs decides to leave home because he can no longer relate to the people around him. This is an all-too-common experience among war veterans.
Telling Korean traditional tale. My Tale. Story Telling: Rabbit's Judgement. Unit 1. Unit 2. Unit 3. Vocabulary Activity 1. Vocabulary Activity 2. The Nuclear Energy. Unit 5. Answer the Questions. Quick Check 1. Read with a Purpose 4. Reading Skills: Reading for Details 5. Literary Analysis 6. She tells him that she prays for him and the temptations that he must have faced. But, she says, he must find a job.
After all, she says, the other boys his age are getting jobs and wives. She asks if he loves her. He says no, meaning that he cannot love anyone. She is only hurt, so Krebs tells her that he did not mean it. Krebs tells her that he will try to be good. She asks him to kneel with her and pray. She prays, but he cannot. He leaves, thinking that he will get a job in Kansas City and get out of the house without too many more confrontations.
He only wants to have his life go smoothly, which it is not. He goes to watch Helen play baseball. This story, the first about Krebs, attempts to reveal the profundity of the shock of re-entry into one's old life. Krebs wants everything to be simple. The world seems so complex. Young women look modern and everyone is involved in political relationships with everyone else. Krebs wants a simple life where he can relax and avoid talking and lying about the war. Krebs also seems truly incapable of complexity.
He feels that he cannot love anymore and that he cannot pray. Krebs's soul has been removed by the war. Now, the most interesting book is one about the war that can explain what he was doing.
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